On 9 June 1897 in Essex County, Virginia, Ro. H. Stubbs was married to Ella M. Carlton. He was 22, single, born in Gloucester County and living there, occupation merchant, son of Jas. M. Stubbs and P. A. Didlake. She was 18, single, born in Essex County and living there, daughter of Theodore Carlton and Virginia Dunn. [Essex County, Virginia, Marriage Register I, page 124.]

On 13 July 1959, Robert Henry Stubbs died at Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. He was a resident of 709 Mary Ball Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia, not on a farm. He was male; white; widowed; born 17 October 1874; age 84; occupation retired merchant; business or industry may say stove or store; born in Gloucester County, Virginia; citizen of U.S.A.; father was James Monroe Stubbs; mother was Parthenia Didlake; wife was Ella Carlton Stubbs; informant patient’s hospital record and funeral director; cause of death cerebro-vascular accident, onset 12 July 1959; buried on 15 July 1959 at Harmony Grove Church Cemetery, Harmony Village, Virginia. [Commonwealth of Virginia, Certificate of Death 16552.]