Blaine's father Mickle was the eldest of seven children born to William Kirkham Stubblefield[9] and his fifth wife Josephine Loomis Stubblefield.[10] Mickle's wife, the former Edith Belle Davis, had come to Wallowa County, Oregon with her family from Iowa.
Mickle Stubblefield was a passionate historian who shared his family history with his children and expanded his use of the written word through an avid letter-writing campaign to explain the true burial site of Chief Joseph.
^Cohen, Norm; Cohen, David (2000). Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong. University of Illinois. pp. 564–565. ISBN9780252068812. Retrieved 2010-06-11.Notice the footnote on page 565, regarding information provided by Blaine's widow Helen Stubblefield Elliott.
^"Mickle" is usually pronounced as it looks. However, Blaine Stubblefield's brother Seth William ("Bill") Stubblefield provides a phonetic spelling of Mickle's name as "Mickyel".
^Obituary of Mickle Stubblefield: Mickle Stubblefield was born May 16, 1874, near Little Rock, Arkansas, and died of a stroke on November 8, 1942 (age 68) in Oakland, California. Mickle's obituary was printed in a newspaper, probably the Enterprise Chieftain (Enterprise, Oregon).
^Lathrop, Joan Bernice Crow (2008). The Ben Davis Family of Wallowa County. Wallowa, OR: The Lathrop Family. pp. 19–22. This book states that Edith Stubblefield was born November 29, 1873, and died May 16, 1927. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa and died in Richmond, California.
^According to a letter written by Cecile Stubblefield Pearson (one of Blaine's sisters) to Helen Stubblefield (Blaine's wife), Blaine was born in the homestead home of Edith's mother, Elizabeth Davis. This was the landmark squared log, shake roof house built by Benjamin Davis, Edith's father. Cecile's letter was dated March 19, but with no year specified.
^According to Cecile Stubblefield Pearson's letter to Helen Stubblefield, the first page of Mickle's Bible states that Mickle and Edith were married on December 4, 1894, on Alder Slope (the area southwest of Enterprise, Oregon) by the Rev. W.P. Sams, Quaker minister. After their marriage, Edith was the organist and Mickle the Sunday School Superintendent of the church. At another time, the family attended the Presbyterian Church in Enterprise located on E. Logan Street and NE 1st Street according to Josephine Stubblefield Gibson (one of Blaine's sisters).
^"Obituary of William Kirkham Stubblefield". 1909-03-24. Retrieved 2010-06-11., published in "the Enterprise, Oregon newspaper". The obituary states that William Kirkham Stubblefield was born on October 30, 1825, in Granger County, Tennessee, and died March 22, 1909, of heart disease at the home of his son Ira in Dallas, Oregon.