Merced-Sonoma-San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Biographies.....Gilbert, William Grant 1868 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

WILLIAM GRANT GILBERT

   A native son of California and a highly respected citizen of the West Side in
Merced County, William Grant Gilbert was born in Sonoma County, on January 22,
1868, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. David W. Gilbert. Mrs. Gilbert was in
maidenhood Nancy Katherine Freshour and was born in Missouri; the father had
come from Ohio to California and here was married. In his later years David W.
Gilbert was a minister of the gospel and held charges in Fall River, Big Valley,
Gait and in Sacramento. His last seven years were spent in Shasta County and he
died at the age of fifty-eight.

   William Grant Gilbert grew up in San Luis Obispo County and attended the
public schools there and in Shasta County. In 1892 he came to the West Side in
Stanislaus County and found employment on ranches for three years, then he took
up a homestead in the hills west of Patterson, proved up on it and after five
years sold out and bought forty acres of bare land four miles west of Ingomar in
the Cottonwood district. This land he fenced, erected his home and barns
suitable for his needs and follows dairying and growing alfalfa, and has met
with fair success.

   On December 17, 1890, Mr. Gilbert was married in Fall River Valley, Shasta
County, to Miss Elvira Ray, born in Jackson County, Mo., the daughter of Isaac
and Nancy (Copple) Ray, natives of Ohio and Missouri, respectively. When their
daughter was a babe of four months, in 1876 the family moved to California and
for two years lived in Marysville, then moved to Shasta County where the father
carried on a sawmilling business until he met an accidental death when he was
sixty-five years old. His widow died on September 18, 1924, at Stockton. There
were six children in the Ray family: Rebecca Jane, Andrew, Elvira (Mrs.
Gilbert), Edward Thomas, William and Ernest. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert have three
children: William Leslie, who married Lula Spikes of Gustine; Ella Irene,
married M. J. O'Keefe of Groveland; and Vivian Ray. In politics Mr. Gilbert is a
Republican; fraternally, he belongs to Acorn Camp No. 502, W. O. W., of Newman.
He has served as school trustee in the Clay district three years. In 1905 the
Gilbert family located on their present home place near the Clay schoolhouse.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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