History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 253,
Garrard County

     JONAS SAMUEL GILBERT M.D., a highly successful physician and
surgeon of Garrard County, Doctor Gilbert has practiced at Lancaster
for eighteen years, the only noteworthy absence from his duties being
while he was in the Medical Corps during the World war.
     Doctor Gilbert was born at Mount Eden, Spencer County, Kentucky,
December 2, 1874.  His grandfather, Samuel Gilbert, was a native of
Virginia and asa young man moved to Spencer County, Kentucky where he
was a flour miller.  He died at Taylorsville.  His second wife and the
grandmother of Doctor Gilbert was Nancy Gill.  Her son, Francis W.
Gilbert spent his entire active life as a farmer.  He was born in
Spencer County in 1847, became a farmer there and in 1881 removed to
Texas and subsequently acquired extensive landed interests in the
territory and state of Oklahoma and lived at Kelley until his death in
1905.  He was a democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.  The first wife of Francis W. Gilbert Was Emma Stodghill, who
was born in Spencer County in 1850 and died at Mount Eden in 1874, soon
after the birth of her son Jonas Samuel.  Her other child, Cordie, is
the wife of John Harp, living at Shelbyville, Kentucky.  The second wife
of Francis W. Gilbert was Sallie Parkhurst, and she is still living at
Kelley, Oklahoma.  Of her six children five are living.
     Jonas Samuel Gilbert has spent practically all his life in
Kentucky, attended the rural schools of Spencer County, was a student
for two years in the State College, now the Kentucky State University,
at Lexington, and in 1898 received his M. D. degree from the University
of Louisville.  He is a member of the Phi Chi college fraternity.  For
five years, beginning in 1898, he practiced at Van Buren in Anderson
County, and in 1903 removed to Lancaster.  His offices are in the
Citizens National Bank Building on the Public Square.  Doctor Gilbert is
former health officer of Garrard County and a member of the County,
State and American Medical associations.  He was commissioned a first
lieutenant in the Medical Corps, September 14, 1918, and was on duty at
Camp Sheridan, Alabama, until honorably discharged April 15, 1919.
     He is a democrat, a member of the Christian Church, and is
affiliated with Lancaster Lodge No. 104, F. and A. M., and Franklin
Lodge No. 7, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  His home is one of the
most desirable residences at Lancaster, located on Lexington Pike.  On
May 24, 1911, at Lexington, he married Miss Mary Broadus, daughter of
Newton and Jennie (Kersey) Broadus, now deceased.  Her father was a
merchant and at one time in the livery business at Lancaster.  Mrs.
Gilbert is a graduate of Midway Seminary at Midway, Kentucky.  To their
marriage was born one son, James Burnett Gilbert on May 23, 1915.

Broadus Gilbert Gill Harp Kersey Parkhurst Stodghill
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Anderson-KY Spencer-KY TX VA

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