 Ethelbert Hubbs was called to Washington, DC, in about 1882 to provide testimony to a US Senate Special Committee investigating the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and violence throughout the south following reconstruction.Ethelbert Hubbs died in about 1909 and Orlando Hubbs died in about 1931 at the Hubbs residence in Commack, Long Island, New York.They are buried in the Commack Cemetery in the Hubbs family plot.