GILBERT BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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GILBERT, James W. - b: 1839 Cooper Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 766
residence: Bear Creek Twp

James W. Gilbert, farmer and stock raiser, section 18, was born in Cooper County, 
Missouri, August 31, 1839, and was the son of Benjamin Gilbert, a native of 
Virginia, who early moved to Kentucky, where he grew to manhood. He came to 
Missouri in about the year 1830, and settled in Cooper County. Locating at 
Boonville, he was occupied in working at his trade of cabinet making. He was 
married in that county to Miss Mary A. Neal, a Kentuckian by birth. James W. was 
an only child. He passed his youth on a farm until sixteen years of age, when he 
moved to Henry County, and in the fall of 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate 
service in Price's cavalry, and participated in the battle of Lexington. In the 
spring of 1862 he was engaged as a teamster, and drove through to New Mexico, 
returning late the same year. The following winter he visited Denver. Early in 
1863 he went to St. Louis and farmed near the city during the summer, and in 
1863 he worked in Washington City at the carpenter's trade. In the summer of 
1864 he followed carpentering in Leavenworth and Fort Smith in the 
quartermaster's department, and in the fall of the same year worked in 
Wyandotte. In the spring of 1865 he went to Julesburg, Colorado, and in February 
of 1866 returned to Missouri and took up his residence at Osceola, being 
employed in a wagon and repair shop for the summer. In the fall of 1866 he moved 
to Stockton, Cedar County, and lived there till the spring of 1867, thence to 
Clinton, Henry County. Mr. Gilbert was married in the fall of 1868 to Miss Julia 
Atwood, of New York. In the spring of 1869 he moved to St. Clair County, bought a 
farm and devoted his time to agricultural pursuits for four years. In 1873 he 
came back to Henry County where he purchased a farm, where he now resides, 
containing 200 acres, all in pasture and cultivation. Underlying about forty acres 
of this place is a good vein of coal, about twenty-four inches thick. Mr. Gilbert 
and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He belongs to 
the Masonic order.

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