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Ella Elmira (or Elmyra) Robbins was born in 1871 in Decatur County, Indiana, a daughter of James Gilman and Elmira (Stout) Robbins. She was married to the Rev. John Fielding Huckleberry in 1893 and they had five children: Evermont Robbins, William Carey, Mary Elmyra, Helen Rebecca, and Florence Naomi.
The Huckleberrys moved to Oregon in about 1921 (another interesting Decatur County to Oregon connection), though daughters Mary Elmyra (who had married George Vandiver) and Helen Rebecca seemed to have remained in Indiana.
The Rev. John Fielding Huckleberry, born in 1864, had graduated from Franklin College in Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana. He served five years as pastor of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Decatur County and well as other pastorates in Indiana before moving to Oregon. The Rev. Huckleberry died in McMinnville, Oregon, in 1950. At the time his wife was staying with their daughter Mary Vandiver back in Indiana. She flew out to be with him at the time of his death. Ella lived only five more years, dy