Pioneer Genealogical Society - Ponca City, Oklahoma

 

 

 

The Blackwell Sun
Blackwell, Oklahoma
June 28, 1906

Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

GILBERT – Cora Anne Weaver, daughter of John W. and Ross A. Weaver was born in Knox County, Illinois, April 1, 1882. When three years old she was taken with her parents to Rice County, Kansas. After five years of residence there, the family moved to Cowley County, near Arkansas City where they resided till opening of the “strip”, when they secured a claim and lived there till she was married to Theron J. Gilbert, Dec. 25, 1901. They resided seven miles east of Blackwell till about a year ago, when they moved to town. She was taken sick last Christmas with lagrippe, which drifted into pneumonia, which finally defeated medical skill and ran into quick consumption from which she departed this life, June 20, 1906, at 20 minutes past 1 o’clock. She leaves a husband and one child, a father, mother and four sisters. The services were held at the Methodist church this afternoon, June 21, at 2:30. Burial at I. O. O. F. cemetery.


CARD OF THANKS

We desire to thank the many friends and neighbors who aided us in so many ways during the illness, death and burial of our loved one.
Theron J. Gilbert and Family