My Genealogy Hound

JAMES GRUBBS, farmer, post office Talley Cavey, is a son of John and Isabella (Reed) Grubbs. Andrew Grubbs, his grandfather, who was a native of Germany, emigrated to America in or about 1780, married Rhoda Powell, located in Pittsburgh, and afterward on the Walter farm, in what is now Hampton township, where most of their children were born, and in 1817 he removed to Indiana township. They reared a family of eleven children, Rachel, now Mrs. Philip Hodil, of Ross township, being the only one now living. Andrew was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died in 1850; his widow in 1855.

John, who was the eldest son, was born on the homestead in 1807. He afterward settled in West Deer township, and later in McCandless township, where he died in 1874; his widow died in 1888, at the age of eighty-one years. They had eight children, six of whom still live: Andrew, a physician of McKeesport; Lewis, a merchant in West Deer township; Adam R., in Johnstown; Francis A., in Fayette county; Martha A., now Mrs. Robert Houston, of Westmoreland county; and James, who is the third son, and was born in Indiana township in 1835. He was reared and educated in West Deer township, in 1849 moved to what is now Hampton township, and in 1874 to his present farm. In 1865 he married Violet Jane, daughter of John and Eliza Jane (McBride) Trimble, of this county. She died in 1873, leaving two children: Harry A. and Lyla J., both at home; he next married, in 1875, Maggie A. Trimble, a sister of his former wife. They have no children. In 1877 Mr. Grubbs was elected justice of the peace of the township, which office he still holds, and has also been assessor and supervisor of the township; also served nine years on the board of school directors. He and family are members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Pine Creek, he being an elder in same.