“The Teamster in Jack MacDonald's Crew”

Description

Leslie Stubbs was a teamster "who came to the lumberlands his family to maintain," He complains of headache and becomes sick. MacDonald and Tom Proctor take him home to his wife in Sherman Mills. Doctor Harris cannot save him.

Notes

Ives-DullCare: "Earl Stubbs, aged 28, having contracted spinal meningitis in a lumbercamp, died at his home in Sherman Mills, Maine, January 23, 1908, and Dr Francis Harris had signed the death certificate" - BS

Historical references

  • Jan 23, 1908 - death of Earl Stubbs

References

  1. Ives-DullCare, pp. 165-167, 256, "The Teamster in Jack MacDonald's Crew" (1 text, 1 tune)
  2. Roud #13997
  3. BI, IvDC165

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1965 (Ives-DullCare)
Found in: Canada(Mar)