EMILY SIMPSON GERARD WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MILTON GERARD AND
PERNIAH BLAIR. SHE WAS THE SISTER TO THRUZA GERARD AND EDWARD
MITCHELL GERARD--BOTH OF WHOM MARRIED INTO THE "GILBERTS".
PREVIOUS TO MARRYING HERMAN RHODES GILBERT, EMILY GERARD MARRIED
JOSEPH M. SIMPSON. NO TRACE OF JOSEPH HAS BEEN FOUND. THEY HAD ONE
CHILD WHO DIED AND IS BURIED IN IROQUOIS County, ILL. JOSEPH M SIMPSON
AND EMILY HAD ONE CHILD, JOSEPH M., WHO DIED AUG. 1, 1861. HE WAS 15
DAYS OLD. HE IS BURIED IN LIBERTY CEMETERY IN IROQUOIS County, ILLINOIS.
EMILY DIED IN 1910 IN CENTRALIA, KANSAS. SHE IS BURIED IN LEON, IOWA.
IF EMILY MARRIED HERMAN IN 1860, AND THE BABY WHICH DIED WAS
JOSEPH SIMPSON'S (THE BABY DIED IN AUG. OF 1861), HOW COULD THIS
BE? SOMETHING IS NOT CORRECT
Centralia, Kansas...Seneca Courier P. 3 Democrat Supplement Vol. XLVII
#47, Thurs. , Sept. 8th, 1910. The death of Grandma Gilbert, living
with
her son Dan west of town, was reported Monday evening.
The Back Rhodes of Our Genealogy
1839 - 1910 (70 years)
