Hulburd-Knowles Plot
(GPS N 39° 25.176’, W 092° 25.189’ ± 17 feet - WGS84 Datum)
Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri
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C. Earl "Dutch" Hulburd shares a gravestone with his parents, Henry
E. Hulburd and Ella Knowles-Hulburd. Dutch was preceded in
death by both of his parents and they were presumably already
interred in Moberly at the time of his passing in 1952. His
son, Earl "Bud" S. Hulburd, also preceded him in death by 2 years.
If Dutch's parents already had grave stones they must have been
replaced after Dutch's death but his son's stone was not. Why
this was done is not known.
I suspect that the common grave stone (Dutch and
parents Henry and Ella) was arranged for by Dutch's uncle (and
Henry's much younger brother), Ernest A. Hulburd ("Ernie") in 1960.
A letter from Ernie to my mother that year indicates that he planned
to visit the Oakland Cemetery that summer (from his home in Phonix,
AZ) to set up perpetual care for the Hulburd and Lukens plots there
(where his brother, mother, grandmother and other relatives were
buried). The above photo in the form of a Kodachrome photographic "slide" was found among Betty Hulburd
Hine-Alderson's possessions after her 1996 death. The slide indicates that it was developed (photographically processed) in
1960, the same year Ernie planned to visit Moberly. I have no recollection that mother visited Missouri in
1960 and even if she did I think it unlikely that she would have had
a camera with her capable of shooting Kodachrome slides. I therefore suspect the photo was taken by Ernie (or at
his request)
and sent to my mother to show her the new gravestone honoring her
parents and brother. (Note that Ernie Hulburd, who passed away
in 1972, is buried with his wife in his longtime home of Phoenix and
not in Moberly with the rest of his family.)
Noticeably missing from the family burial plot is
Hazel Coudy-Hulburd, Dutch's divorced
wife. There is conflicting information as to where she is
buried. Her St. Louis newspaper obituary
(St. Louis Post Dispatch, Feb. 26, 1944) indicates that she was buried in New York City where she had passed
away. On the other hand, her daughter Betty
Hulburd-Hine-Alderson indicated in a taped family oral history
interview in 1995 that Hazel was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery,
St. Louis, Missouri in a plot with her Coudy relatives.
Finally, a recently discovered letter written in 1949 from
C. Earl Hulburd (Dutch) to his daughter Betty Hulburd-Hine-Alderson reflecting upon the
death of Hazel's father (Horace R. Coudy) suggests that Dutch had the
ashes of his ex-wife Hazel placed in her father's casket prior to
burial in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO.
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The Hulburd-Knowles plot
(3rd Addition, Block 21, Lot 13A) in the Oakland Cemetery,
Moberly, Missouri (foreword most 5 gravestones). The plot
contain the graves of (upper stones left to right) Earl Seward
Hulburd (1928-1950), C. Earl Hulburd (1888-1952), Ella Knowles
Hulburd (1868-1943), Henry E. Hulburd (1863-1945), (lower stones
left to right) Elizabeth Seward Hulburd-Hine-Alderson (1917-1996),
Emma Knowles (1844-1902), and Ferd Knowles (1836-1905). Photo
taken December 2001 by Ted Hine. |
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The parents of Ella Knowles-Hulburd (1996
photo by Henry Hine)
In December of 2004 when I visited the
Oakland Cemetery I found that the upper portion of Ferd Knowles'
gravestone had come loose from its base, possibly due to aging or
perhaps from being hit by a lawn mower. The top portion sat fine
on the base, it was just not permanently attached. On my return in
June of 2005 I brought some concrete cement and re-attached the two
pieces. In the process of making the repair I noticed that both
Ferd and Emma's gravestones had previously become unattached at the same
location and that both had been repaired with a silicon based adhesive.
Emma's silicon fix was still holding but Ferd's had failed. I have
no idea how long ago the fixes were made (though I believe silicon
adhesives did not become available till the late 1960's) or who
performed them, possibly the cemetery caretakers or perhaps another
descendent of the Knowles' who I am not aware of. |
Lukens Plot
(GPS N 39°
25.224’, W 092° 25.198’ ± 10 feet - WGS84 Datum)
Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri
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Other Hulburd ancestors and
relatives are buried in the
Lukens plot at the Oakland Cemetery (2nd Addition, Block 10, Row 5,
Lot 25). They include (from left to right) Lula Lukens
(1866-1957, wife of Jacob), Jacob Lukens (1854-1936), Rebecca
Jane Lukens-Hulburd (1842-1916, mother of Henry E. Hulburd), David Lukens
(1854-1907), and Rachel Adair-Lukens (1825-1889, mother of Jacob,
Rebecca, and David).
The Lukens Plot is only about 300 to 400 feet north of the
Hulburd-Knowles Plot.
(Lukens Plot photos by Ted
Hine, December - 2003)
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Rebecca Jane Lukens-Hulburd
(Wife of Milton Hulburd, mother of Henry E. Hulburd) |
David Way Lukens
(Brother of Rebecca) |
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Jacob
Ray Lukens
(Brother of Rebecca) |
Lula F. Lukens
(Wife of Jacob) |
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Rachel
Adair-Lukens (April 4, 1825 - January 30, 1889)
(Mother of Rebecca, Jacob and David. Grandmother of Henry E.
Hulburd) |
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