OBITUARY:
Harriet Emma Weller was born in Monroe county, New York, January 9, 1 843. The family moved from the native state to Wisconsin when she was qui te young, and from thence to Iowa, for a few years residence, and then ce to Missouri, returning to the state of Iowa at the beginning of the w ar and locating in Monroe county, where at the close of the war she was un ited in marriage on March 4, 1864, to Ezra Gilbert.
In 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert moved to Kansas, locating near Marysvill e, where they resided until the year of 1894, when they came to Oklahom a, locating on a claim in Garfield county six and a half miles southwe st of Billings, which was the family home until the month of September, 19 07, when they moved to Billings, where the end came to Mrs. Gilbert at t he residence in the northwest part of the city Friday morning, April 19, 1 918, between the hours of five and six o'clock, at the advanced a ge of 75 years, 3 months and 16 days, after an illness that was but thr ee days in duration.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert were born nine children, five dy ing in infancy. Those surviving are L. L. Gilbert of Portland, Oregon; Le ster Gilbert of Beaver City, Okla., Mrs. Elva McCluskey of Billings, Okl a, and Charlie Gilbert of McMinneville, Oregon, only the daughter and s on Lester being able to be here to attend the last sad rites of their moth er.
Mrs. Gilbert was converted and united with the Methodist church in t he summer of 1870, and has been a faithful member of the same to her death .
Funeral services were conducted at the church of her choice by the pa stor, Rev. G. A. Strouse, Sunday at two o'clock, attended by a large conco urse of relatives, friends and acquaintances, to do honor to the memo ry of the most true and faithful wives and mothers, whose every act was f or the betterment of the community and its citizenship, and the profusi on of the most beautiful flowers were the silent tokens of the deep gri ef felt.
As she so profusely strewn the fairest flowers in the land to all dur ing her long and useful life did these same ones bury her silent form in t he casket with the finest to be had.
Harriet Emma Weller was born in Monroe county, New York, January 9, 1 843. The family moved from the native state to Wisconsin when she was qui te young, and from thence to Iowa, for a few years residence, and then ce to Missouri, returning to the state of Iowa at the beginning of the w ar and locating in Monroe county, where at the close of the war she was un ited in marriage on March 4, 1864, to Ezra Gilbert.
In 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert moved to Kansas, locating near Marysvill e, where they resided until the year of 1894, when they came to Oklahom a, locating on a claim in Garfield county six and a half miles southwe st of Billings, which was the family home until the month of September, 19 07, when they moved to Billings, where the end came to Mrs. Gilbert at t he residence in the northwest part of the city Friday morning, April 19, 1 918, between the hours of five and six o'clock, at the advanced a ge of 75 years, 3 months and 16 days, after an illness that was but thr ee days in duration.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert were born nine children, five dy ing in infancy. Those surviving are L. L. Gilbert of Portland, Oregon; Le ster Gilbert of Beaver City, Okla., Mrs. Elva McCluskey of Billings, Okl a, and Charlie Gilbert of McMinneville, Oregon, only the daughter and s on Lester being able to be here to attend the last sad rites of their moth er.
Mrs. Gilbert was converted and united with the Methodist church in t he summer of 1870, and has been a faithful member of the same to her death .
Funeral services were conducted at the church of her choice by the pa stor, Rev. G. A. Strouse, Sunday at two o'clock, attended by a large conco urse of relatives, friends and acquaintances, to do honor to the memo ry of the most true and faithful wives and mothers, whose every act was f or the betterment of the community and its citizenship, and the profusi on of the most beautiful flowers were the silent tokens of the deep gri ef felt.
As she so profusely strewn the fairest flowers in the land to all dur ing her long and useful life did these same ones bury her silent form in t he casket with the finest to be had.
OBITUARY:
Harriet Emma Weller was born in Monroe county, New York, January 9, 1 843. The family moved from the native state to Wisconsin when she was qui te young, and from thence to Iowa, for a few years residence, and then ce to Missouri, returning to the state of Iowa at the beginning of the w ar and locating in Monroe county, where at the close of the war she was un ited in marriage on March 4, 1864, to Ezra Gilbert.
In 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert moved to Kansas, locating near Marysvill e, where they resided until the year of 1894, when they came to Oklahom a, locating on a claim in Garfield county six and a half miles southwe st of Billings, which was the family home until the month of September, 19 07, when they moved to Billings, where the end came to Mrs. Gilbert at t he residence in the northwest part of the city Friday morning, April 19, 1 918, between the hours of five and six o'clock, at the advanced a ge of 75 years, 3 months and 16 days, after an illness that was but thr ee days in duration.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert were born nine children, five dy ing in infancy. Those surviving are L. L. Gilbert of Portland, Oregon; Le ster Gilbert of Beaver City, Okla., Mrs. Elva McCluskey of Billings, Okl a, and Charlie Gilbert of McMinneville, Oregon, only the daughter and s on Lester being able to be here to attend the last sad rites of their moth er.
Mrs. Gilbert was converted and united with the Methodist church in t he summer of 1870, and has been a faithful member of the same to her death .
Funeral services were conducted at the church of her choice by the pa stor, Rev. G. A. Strouse, Sunday at two o'clock, attended by a large conco urse of relatives, friends and acquaintances, to do honor to the memo ry of the most true and faithful wives and mothers, whose every act was f or the betterment of the community and its citizenship, and the profusi on of the most beautiful flowers were the silent tokens of the deep gri ef felt.
As she so profusely strewn the fairest flowers in the land to all dur ing her long and useful life did these same ones bury her silent form in t he casket with the finest to be had.
Harriet Emma Weller was born in Monroe county, New York, January 9, 1 843. The family moved from the native state to Wisconsin when she was qui te young, and from thence to Iowa, for a few years residence, and then ce to Missouri, returning to the state of Iowa at the beginning of the w ar and locating in Monroe county, where at the close of the war she was un ited in marriage on March 4, 1864, to Ezra Gilbert.
In 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert moved to Kansas, locating near Marysvill e, where they resided until the year of 1894, when they came to Oklahom a, locating on a claim in Garfield county six and a half miles southwe st of Billings, which was the family home until the month of September, 19 07, when they moved to Billings, where the end came to Mrs. Gilbert at t he residence in the northwest part of the city Friday morning, April 19, 1 918, between the hours of five and six o'clock, at the advanced a ge of 75 years, 3 months and 16 days, after an illness that was but thr ee days in duration.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert were born nine children, five dy ing in infancy. Those surviving are L. L. Gilbert of Portland, Oregon; Le ster Gilbert of Beaver City, Okla., Mrs. Elva McCluskey of Billings, Okl a, and Charlie Gilbert of McMinneville, Oregon, only the daughter and s on Lester being able to be here to attend the last sad rites of their moth er.
Mrs. Gilbert was converted and united with the Methodist church in t he summer of 1870, and has been a faithful member of the same to her death .
Funeral services were conducted at the church of her choice by the pa stor, Rev. G. A. Strouse, Sunday at two o'clock, attended by a large conco urse of relatives, friends and acquaintances, to do honor to the memo ry of the most true and faithful wives and mothers, whose every act was f or the betterment of the community and its citizenship, and the profusi on of the most beautiful flowers were the silent tokens of the deep gri ef felt.
As she so profusely strewn the fairest flowers in the land to all dur ing her long and useful life did these same ones bury her silent form in t he casket with the finest to be had.
Family Members
Spouse
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
