Beckham County, OK - Obits: Mattie U. Gilbert, 1909
13 Feb 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

 ************************************************
 Copyright. All rights reserved.
 http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
 ************************************************

GILBERT MATTIE U.
(5 Aug 1909, Erick Altruist, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
At the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Gilbert in West Erick, Miss
Mattie Gilbert peacefully passed away at 12:20 o'clock last Sunday
evening, after an illness of about a month.  Deceased had suffered a
severe attack of typhoid fever, but a few days before the end came her
physicians and loved ones were rejoiced in the belief that she was
convalescent and her relapse resulting in death was felt by them more
poignantly than if she had not rallied in a degree.
Miss Mattie was a beautiful young lady, just blooming from happy girlhood
into the blush of refined young womanhood.  Her age at death was 17 years,
10 months and 24 days.
Funeral services were conducted at the Christian Church last Sunday
afternoon by her pastor, Elder H. E. Stubbs, who spake a beautiful eulogy
concerning her.  Misses Pearl Sheets and Cora Haddock who were her
intimate friends most expressively sang a duet, during the singing of
which one of the young ladies was overcome by grief.  At the close of the
services the lid of the dainty white casket was removed and those who
wished were permitted to take a last look at her, after which a long
procession of mourners accompanied her remains to the Erick cemetery where
interment was made.
Miss Mattie Gilbert was born September 6, 1891, in Cook county, Texas,
where she spent her early childhood.  She came to Oklahoma with her
parents about 8 years ago, and during the time intervening since then, she
has been a happy, lovable school girl and young lady in our midst,
becoming more and more endeared to everyone in the community as time went
by.  She is survived by her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Burrows of
McLean, Texas, and Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Gilbert of Collinsville, Tex., her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Gilbert, two brothers and three sisters,
besides numerous other relatives, more distant kin.  Grief because of her
death is not more keenly felt by anyone than by the splendid young man,
Mr. Eural Evans, who since childhood had been her favored lover, and had
she not have died the culmination of this courtship of her would probably
have been realized in the sacred bonds of matrimony within a few months. 
To him and to her bereaved relatives, this paper extends most sincere
consolation.
(5 Aug 1909, Thursday, Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
In Memory.  It is with deep regret and sorrow that we are called to
chronicle the death of Miss Mattie Gilbert.  She departed this life at her
home in Erick on Sunday morning Aug. 1, at 12:20.  Should she have lived
till September, she would have been 18 years of age.
She was just reaching womanhood and gave great promise of making a good
and useful woman, one that not only her parents could be proud of, but all
her associates and acquaintances.  She was one who exerted a good
influence on her friends, and it is from these facts that she is so
sincerely mourned and missed.  But Oh! what comfort we have in knowing
that the departed one is basking in the sunshine of God.  May the Father's
arm sustain them in their grief and His peace fill their inmost souls.

---------------------------------------------------------
Return to Beckham County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/beckham/beckham.htm