Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 607-608 [McCracken]

     JESSE McCLAIN GILBERT, attorney-at-law at Paducah, Kentucky,
was born near Benton, Marshall county, Kentucky, February 13, 1860,
a son of Hugh and Sarah Ann (Walters) Gilbert.  The father was born
in Mississippi and was a son of Joel Gilbert, a native of Virginia. 
Joel was a son of Jesse, and Jesse was a son of John Hale Gilbert,
born in England.  Jesse Gilbert was a native of Virginia, and
married Anne Sims, a cousin of General Washington.
     Hugh Gilbert was a merchant for forty years, and also engaged
in farming in Marshall county, Kentucky.  In 1880 he located in
Paducah, and conducted a mercantile establishment until his death in
1889, when he was sixty-nine years of age.  His wife died in 1878,
aged sixty-nine years.  They had twelve children, of whom nine are
living.
     Jesse McCain Gilbert was reared upon a farm three miles south
of Benton, Kentucky.  His education was obtained in the country
schools, the Benton high school and State Normal School at
Bloomington, Illinois.  In early life, when only fifteen years of
age, he taught his first school, and alternated teaching and
attending school for some time.  Among other places, he taught
school in several counties in western Kentucky, and gained an enviable
reputation as an educator.  In 1890 he was elected county
superintendent of schools of McCracken county and served as such for
four years thereafter.  Meanwhile he took up the sturdy of law under
the late Judge Jesse C. Gilbert, of Paducah, one of the most
profound and able lawyers whose career has graced the record of the
Paducah bar.  In 1892 Mr. Gilbert was admitted to the bar, and since
then has been active and successful practitioner of law in Paducah
and the adjoining country.  Appreciating his ability, in 1901 the
people elected him city attorney of Paducah on the Democratic
ticket.  Fraternally he is a Master Mason, and belongs to the
Ancient Order of United Workmen, to the Modern Woodmen and
Maccabees, and is also a Redman.  In religion he is a Methodist.
     In 1879 Mr. Gilbert was united in marriage with Miss Eugenie
Wood, a daughter of Rev. Gray Wood of the Methodist church.  Mr. and
Mrs. Gilbert have one child, Miss Birdye, a graduate of the Paducah
high school and Young Women's college of Asheville, North Carolina,
and a very accomplished and charming young lady and skilled
musician.

Gilbert Walters Washington Sims Wood
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Marshall-KY MS VA England IL NC

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