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, dying in 1955, in Oregon.

Two of their children who came to Oregon, William Carey Huckleberry and Florence Naomi Huckleberry, appear to have never married.  They died in 1967 and 1972, respectively.

The older son, Evermont Robbins Huckleberry, however, led a storied life that he wrote about in his book The Adventures of Dr. Huckleberry, Tillamook County, Oregon.  Dr. E. R. Huckleberry received his MD from Rush Medical College in Chicago and then served an internship at Los Angeles County Hospital.  He spent the next thirty years practicing medicine in Tillamook County on the Oregon Coast, McMinnville, and Umatilla, Oregon.  After a stint in Texas, he moved to Utah where he retired as a physician.  Dr. Huckleberry died in 1996 in Salt Lake City at the age of 102!

Tillamook County established the Tillamook County Huckleberry Health Fair in his honor, which ran annually from 1983 to 2017.  The fair was an event to help local residents understand their health resources, as well as providing needed low-cost screenings and other services.

Dr. Huckleberry, in his very long life, was also a military veteran, missionary, teacher, author, and family man.  At the time of his death Dr. Huckleberry had three great-great-grandchildren.  Another long lived Robbins family member!

[Jacob Robbins-William Robbins-William Robbins Jr.-James Gilman Robbins-Ella (Robbins) Huckleberry]