When Orbie Wade HULBERT was born on August 8, 1880, in Pine River, Michigan, his father, Oscar Eli Hulbert,, was 26 and his mother, Esther Mindell Wade, was 27. He married Myrtle Mabel WOOD on November 10, 1906, in Cadillac, Michigan. Orbie died on April 3, 1963, in Manton, Michigan, at the age of 82, and was buried at Soper Cemetery in Colfax, Wexford, Michigan.

Myrtle Mabel WOOD was born on September 15, 1886, in Ottawa, Michigan. Her father, William Clarence Wood, was 24, and her mother, Nettie Cleone Gillet, was 20. Myrtle died on December 28, 1970, in Manton, Michigan, at the age of 84, and was buried at Soper Cemetery in Colfax, Wexford, Michigan.

They had six children together during their marriage - Ethel Marie, Orbie Lyle, Leila Lucille, Frances Jeanette (1919-1921), Willard (Jake) Charles and Merlin (Mutt) M.