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Fort Cobb Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma



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© Lillian Cotten
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© Lillian Cotten

George Watson Gilbert
Thelma Irene Gilbert

Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, November 28, 1945

Catharine [Blicker] Gilbert

Funeral Services in Anadarko For Early Day Resident

Mrs. Catheron Gilbert, wife of a pioneer doctor who first lived at Mountain View and later at Fort Cobb, died Nov. 21 at the home of her daughter in Anadarko.

Mrs. Gilbert has lived in Oklahoma City a number of years and was visiting in Anadarko when she was stricken with her fatal illness. She had many friends in Carnegie where she visited many times.

Final rites were held at the First Christian church in Anadarko by Rev. Beckett Friday afternoon, Nov. 23 and burial was made in the family plot in the Fort Cobb cemetery.

Survivors include her daughters, Mrs. Chas. Stockton, Anadarko, and Miss Nell Gilbert, Oklahoma City; her sons, Lawrence "Doc" Gilbert, Ponca City; Louie Gilbert, Soccora, New Mexico; Lt. Col. Chas. L. Gilbert, San Antonio; and her step-son, Geo. W. Gilbert, Yale. Another son, Howard Gilbert, who formerly lived in Carnegie, died two years ago.

Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, November 3, 1937

Paul Gilbert

Ft. Cobb Business Man Dies At Elk City Wednesday

Final Rites for Paul Gilbert Will Be Held Friday; In Caddo County 35 Years.

FORT COBB, Nov. 3.---Funeral services will be held here at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon for Paul Gilbert, 63, early day Caddo county business man who passed away early Wednesday at Elk City. He had been in bad health since suffering a serious paralytic stroke five years ago.

Coming to Fort Cobb in 1902 Gilbert with the Hite Brothers established the Caddo County State Bank and from that time until his health failed in 1932 he was actively engaged in banking, real estate and other business.

For the past ten months he has been living at Clinton and Elk City.

Surviving relatives include besides his wife his two daughters, Mrs. C.C. Kersey, Oklahoma City and Mrs. Marvin Methvin of Washington, D.C., his mother and a sister, Miss Nell Gilbert of Oklahoma City, and another sister, Mrs. Chas. Stockton of Fort Cobb; and five brothers, Geo. W. Gilbert, Vinita; Howard and Charles L. Gilbert of Oklahoma City, and Lawrence and Louie Gilbert of Ponca City.

Mrs. Methvin and Mrs. Arlie Hamm will come from Washington to attend the funeral.

Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, May 11, 1960

George Watson Gilbert

George W. Gilbert Funeral Services Are Held Tuesday

Funeral services for George W. Gilbert, long-time resident of the Carnegie and Fort Cobb areas were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Pitcher Funeral Chapel.

Walter Teel, minister of the Mountain View Church of Christ, officiated. Interment was in the Fort Cobb cemetery with Masonic services conducted by the Carnegie lodge.

Gilbert, 77, died late Sunday afternoon in a Clinton hospital after a long illness. He entered the hospital February 16 and had major surgery Thursday, April 28. He had been in failing health for some time.

George Watson Gilbert was born February 23, 1883, at Edwardsville, Ill., son of James Howard and Cornelius Gilbert who homesteaded north of Mountain View when George was s small boy. He was married to Ida M. Parks on November 18, 1906 at Fort Cobb. Two children were born to them, Hubert Gilbert of Nome, Alaska, and a daughter, Thelma Irene, who died in infancy.

The Gilberts moved to Carnegie in 1920 where he was employed for a number of years at local hardware stores.

He was a member of an early day "Harmony Four" saxophone quartet composed of Carl Hartman, Clyde Pitcher, Dr. V.E. Martin and Gilbert.

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert moved from Carnegie to Yale, Okla where he served for 16 years as chaplain of the Masonic lodge. They returned to Carnegie to make their home a few years ago.

He was a member of the Church of Christ.

Survivors in addition to his wife, Ida, of the home and his son, Gilbert, include: one granddaughter, Mrs. Jean Ann Hoggan, Edmonton, Canada; three great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Garnett, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Ouida Stockton, Anadarko; and two brothers, L.D. Gilbert, Ponca City, and C.L. Gilbert, Phoenix, Ariz.

Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

1967

Ida Malinda [Park] Gilbert

Ida Malinda Parks was born November 1, 1885 at Weatherford, Texas.

She came with her parents to Fort Cobb in 1902 and first moved to Carnegie in 1920.

She was married to George W. Gilbert November 18, 1906. They had two children, daughter, Thelma Irene, who died at the age of six months and Hubert A. Gilbert, Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Gilbert died in May, 1960.

She also had two sisters, Mrs. Essie Rich and Mrs. Effie Jolly, both of Carnegie

Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, September 29, 1943

Howard J. Gilbert

Howard J. Gilbert Rites At Ft. Cobb

Howard J. Gilbert, former Carnegie druggist, died at the veterans' hospital at Muskogee Sunday following an illness of three months.

Funeral services were held in the Street and Draper funeral home in Oklahoma City Tuesday morning and burial was in the Fort Cobb cemetery. Rev. Leroy Simmons conducted a short service at the cemetery. Jack Eshenoir, representing the Anadarko American Legion where Gilbert lived many years, attended the services.

Relatives and friends from Carnegie who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Fulk, Mr. and Mrs. Emery Fulk, Mrs. Roy Boyer, Miss Dorothy Kimbrell of Sentinel, Mrs. J.G. caster and Betty Jo, Mrs. H.H. Leonard and Mrs. B.W. Jolly.

Gilbert was born in Edwardville, Ill., May 18, 1893. His parents came to Caddo county in 1902. He attended Kansas university in 1914 and later attended the school of pharmacy in Wichita, Kans.

He was married to Bertha Martin in Carnegie March 9, 1919.

He was connected with the Jones drug store here from 1919 to 1922. He was in the drug business in Ft. Cobb, Anadarko, Tulsa and in Mountain View before locating in Oklahoma City where he has lived for 15 years.

Gilbert was a member of the Christian church.

During the first World war he was a member of Co. M, 357th Inf., 90th Div.

He is survived by his wife, Bertha Gilbert; one son, Howard Elmo, now in the air corps in New Guinea; his mother, Mrs. Cathran Gilbert, Oklahoma City, two sisters, Mrs. C.W. Stockton, Anadarko, and Miss Nell Gilbert, Oklahoma City, and four brothers, L.D. Gilbert, Ponca City; L.E. Gilbert, Socorro, N.M.; Geo. W. Gilbert, Yale, and Major C.L. Gilbert, now overseas.

Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, December 10, 1975

Irene [Clary] Gilbert

Gilbert Rites At Fort Cobb

Funeral services for Mrs. Irene Gilbert, 73, of Oklahoma City were held at 2 p.m. Friday, December 5 at the Fort Cobb Baptist church with Rev. Don Sebastian, pastor, officiating. Burial was in the Fort Cobb cemetery.

Irene Clary was born October 11, 1902 at Fort Cobb. She moved from Fort Cobb to Chickasha, then to Ponca City; to Socoro, New Mexico, and back to Fort Cobb in 1960.

She was married to Louis Edgerton Gilbert in 1921 at Fort Cobb. He preceded her in death in 1960 at Socoro.

She was employed as a grocery store manager and clerk most of her life.

Mrs. Gilbert was a member of the Highland Methodist Church. She also was a member of the Fort Cobb Eastern Star Chapter.

Pallbearers were Floyd Ratliff, Raymond Ferguson, Harold Henderson, Glenn Millwee, Royce Plaster and L. Easterling. Honorary bearers were Leonard Millwee, Calvin Marshall, A.L. Ackerman, Arther Morgan, W. Easterling and Zack Davis.

Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Meek of Weatherford, and Mrs. Lena Viola Barney of Carnegie; two brothers, W.A. Clary of Albert, Okla., and Raymond Clary of Ohio, Calif.; a brother-in-law, Andrew Barney of Carnegie; several nieces and nephew.

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