OBIT: Rachel (ROYER) GILBERT, 1914, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Christopher Smithson ctsmithson@verizon.net August 11, 2008, 5:45 pm Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/dauphin/ _________________________________________ Former Steelton Resident Dies From Old Age Mrs. William Gilbert [photo] Mrs. William Gilbert, aged 93 years died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Moser, 44 North Seventeenth street, Harrisburg, yesterday. Death was due to old age. She is survived by three children, nine grandchildren and twenty-three great-grandchildren. She was the great- grandmother of O. C. Bickel, silk buyer for Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart's department store. Mrs. Gilbert was born in Montgomery county and spent her adult life in Reading until twenty-five years ago when she moved to Steelton. About four years ago she came to this city, making her home with her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Moser. She was a member of the St. John's Lutheran Church, Steelton for more than fifteen years. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. M. P. Hocker, pastor of the St. John's Lutheran Church, Steelton and the Rev. Lewis C. Manges, pastor of the Memorial Lutheran Church, Fifteenth and Shoop streets, Harrisburg, will officiate. Harrisburg Telegraph, September 7, 1914 Additional Comments: Rachel had several great-great grandchildren when she died in 1914, including my grandfather, Kirby C. J. Davis [b. 1913] his sisters Sallie Davis [b. 1908] and Lillian Davis [b. 1910]. There were several others as well. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/