Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 32-33.  McCracken Co.

HON. JESSE C. GILBERT

     Hon. Jesse C. Gilbert, deceased, was born in Marshall county,
Kentucky, in the year 1831.  His father was Joel Gilbert, who, in
1818, removed from North Carolina, his native state, to the state of
Kentucky, and settled near the present site of Benton, Marshall
county, Kentucky.  He married Miss Tempa Grace, who bore him a family
of ten children, of whom the subject of these memoirs was the seventh
in order of birth.  The parents were pioneers of Marshall county in
the real sense of the term, and spent the rest of their days near the
place of their original settlement in that county.  The mother died in
1834, and the father in 1852.
     Jesse C. Gilbert was born and reared the son of a pioneer farmer,
and the scenes of his youth and early manhood were such as came to
others of his day and time.  Nothing unusual came into his
experiences, but from an early date he possessed a fondness for books.
He acquired a fair acadamic [sic] education, and, desiring to become a
lawyer, he entered the law office of Philander Palmer, one of the
ablest lawyers of Kentucky, at that time, and under whose guidance he
continued to read law until his admission to the bar in 1855.  He was
elected clerk of the Marshall county courts when he was only
twenty-two years of age.  Later he was elected county attorney, and in
1861 he was elected to represent his county in the legislature.  Ten
years later he was elected state senator from the second senatorial
district, and in the state senate he served to 1875.
     In 1874 he removed to the city of Paducah, where he continued to
reside and practice law to the time of his death.  He gained a large
and lucrative clientage; won the reputation of being a profound
lawyer, eloquent advocate and speaker, and gained the respect of all
who knew him.  In 1858 he married, in Benton, Miss Azelia Barry, who
survived him and still resides in the city of Paducah.

Gilbert Grace Palmer Barry
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Marshall-KY NC

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