Thomas R. Hubbard
New Plymouth Outlook
Friday, May 26, 1905
On Sunday afternoon at his late residence were held the funeral services an last tender offices for Mr. Thomas R. Hubbard. Rev. T. S. Duiin of the Payette Baptist church conducted the services and although deeply feeling the great sorrow and loss, was able to leave comforting thoughts with the friends there gathered. There were beautiful floral offerings from friends as tokens of the deep regard in which Mr. Hubbard was held. Mr. A. J. Boehmer of Payette sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" in a touching manner, while he also assisted the Pleasant View quartet in rendering the hymns to which everyone turns with sorrow. The internment took place at Riverside cemetery, to which one of the longest funeral processions of our history wended its way. Our immediate neighborhood and the entire valley feel deeply the loss of this man who was never too busy to give a most cordial salute to all he met. Although not a member of any church, he felt that he had a hope in Christ and lived the life of a Christian gentleman, devoted husband and father. His wife's loss is intensified by the many little attentions and regard of which he never wearied in every day life. At the age of forty four he had had a full life, and now rests from his labors.
Payette Independent (Friday, May 26, 1905)
PLEASANT VIEW IN MOURNING
T. R. Hubbard, Honored Pioneer of the Community, Passed Away.
On Thursday, May 18, there came to our community, a sorrow such as we have not experienced before in our adopted country. Apparently in good health and occupied with work on his place, Thomas R. Hubbard was taken violently ill with neuralgia and passed away in 12 hours.
Words are vain to express our sorrow and sympathy and the high esteem in which our departed brother was held by one and all who have joined themselves to this community, he having been here before any of us.
Mr. Hubbard was 44 years old, having been born at Elk Creek, Pa. He came to Payette in1890, where he took a position as salesman for the Payette nursery. Later he homesteaded the 160 acres northwest of the beautiful home where he died. In 1896 he returned to Pennsylvania and was married to Miss Mary O’Brien, who now, with her son, James Daniel Hubbard, mourn for the lover, husband and father. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard were true helpmeets, one to the other, and the loss is keenly felt by the wife for whom the husband made the daily routine as easy as possible. Besides his property and moneyed interests, Mr. Hubbard was a director in the First National Bank of Payette.
On Sunday afternoon the funeral services were held at the residence, conducted by Rev. T. S. Dulin of the Baptist church of Payette, who had enjoyed a pleasant acquaintance with the deceased for five years. A quartet furnished the comforting hymns and Mr. A. J. Boehmer of Payette sang E. O. Excell’s “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,” in a most impressive manner. The floral offerings were a silent testimony of love and sorrow for the departed one.
Probably the longest procession that has ever entered Payette, following the deceased to Riverside cemetery where many friends from town had gathered to pay their respects to their friend.
The pall bearers were as follows: P. A. Devers, J. J. Toole, J. S. Thurston, J. H. Hanigan, E. E. Hunter and A. J. Barney.
Mr. Hubbard was not affiliated with any church, but felt that he was a Christian and had a hope in Heaven.
Mrs. Hubbard has with her a distant relative, Mrs. Wicham, from Boise, who had known the family from childhood.