[twin] born December 10, 1935, at home at 3132 2nd Street, Simpsonville, Greenville County, South Carolina, married April 27, 1960, in a civil ceremony at Registrar Office at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England and again 3 days later on April 30, 1960, a religious ceremony in the Stadtkirche (City Church) [Lutheran], Darmstadt, Hesse, West German, Gerland "Linda" Menz born November 12, 1938, at Schoneberg, Berlin, Germany, the only daughter of Herbert Otto Menz and Wendula, Countess von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth. (It was at the Town Hall in Schöneberg, in Berlin, where President Kennedy made his famous speech "Ich bin ein Berliner".
Gil and Linda had no children and were divorced July 30, 1976, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. In May 1988, Linda and Gil traveled to Darmstadt, Germany to celebrate her mother Wendula Menz's 80th birthday (in May 1988); that was the last time I saw Mutti. We called her "Mutti" which is the German word for "Mom".
In 1939/1940 or 1941, I had my ear kicked nearly off by a mule in a pasture at Simpsonville, SC. I had been to the movies to see a western; and this mule could very well been an Arabian Stallion as far as this 5 or 6 year old kid was concerned. I wanted to see if I could ride the mule, but the mule kicked me and just caught left ear and literally tore it off the side of my head except for a small piece of the ear lobe; the ear was hanging down my neck when I walked into the kitchen and ask her to put my ear back on with "sticking-plaster" which we now call adhesive-tape. My dad went for Dr. Alvin White, one of two doctors in the small town, but he was intoxicated but he came with his equipment and instructed my mother how to sow my ear back on; believe it or not, it was successful; and I never had any hearing problems; if anything even now at the age of 64 my hearing is very good, sometimes I think too good.
Horace E. Gilbert attended grade schools at Simpsonville, Greenville County, South Carolina, Westview Grade School near Spartanburg, South Carolina.; and Essex, Maryland, Colegate (North Point), Maryland, and Dundalk Elementary & Junior High at Dundalk, Maryland, but never graduated. Served as an enlisted man (A/2c) in the US Air Force 1957-1961 as a clerk-typist, after having attended basic training at Lockland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, then was assigned duties at Shaw Air Force Base, near Sumter, South Carolina, for a short time before being transferred overseas and spent 3 years at (1958-1961) at Denham AFB, near Uxbridge, Buckinghamshire, England, in the old J. Arthur Rank Motion Picture Studios, which was being used as a warehouse. Soon after arriving in England, he met in 1958 Gerlind "Linda" who spoke no English at the time. While stationed in England, Gil lived on base for a while, and from June 1958 to April 1960, rented a room at 104A Victoria Road, Ruislip Manor, Middlesex, England; after marrying, Linda and I rented an apartment at 7 Churchfield Road, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, England from April 1960 to April 1961.
Returning to civilian life in April 1961, Gil went back to his job on the assembly line for Western Electric, Baltimore, Maryland, & lived at 2926 Sollers Point Road, Dundalk, Maryland, until December 1, 1961, and then became a Claim Agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, which later merged with the C&O Railway, to become the Chessie System, which still later merged with the Seaboard Railroad to become "CSX Transportation, Inc."; having worked in Connellsville. Pennsylvania, (Dec. 15, 1962 to June 1962)& lived at Apt. 1-D, Greenwood Heights; and then transferred back to Baltimore, Maryland. living at 2983 Cornwall Rd., Dundalk, Maryland, until Dec., 10, 1963, when transferred Cincinnati, Ohio, and lived in the Mayridge Apt., in Westwood, Cincinnati, Ohio, until in Feb. 1969, when Linda and I purchased a home at 4383 Airycrest Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1998, Horace E. Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft moved to West Chester, Ohio. Gil worked out of the Cincinnati office for 31 years. Gil retired January 2, 1996 from CSX after having spent 34 years as a officer of the railroad.
He is a member of the Daniel Morgan Chapter of the South Carolina American Revolution, attended the SAR's National Congress at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a voting delegate from in 1976, and the National Congress of the SAR in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1977, in San Diego, California in 1979, and in 1980 in Dallas, Texas, a member of the Pinckney District Chapter of the South Carolina Genealogical Society (which includes Spartanburg County, South Carolina). His biography has appeared in 1975-1981 editions of The Hereditary Register of the United States of American. He has compiled and published a 424 page book "The Census Records of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1790-1800-1810-1820-1830- 1840" in 1974, which he gave to the Spartanburg Public Library in July 1976. He erected a plaque in 1976 to Rev. War Soldier, Daniel Gilbert in the old Balaam Gilbert family cemetery in the Cooley Springs Community, Cherokee Twp., Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
On July 10th, 1976 there appeared in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal in the Editorial for the day a letter which was written by Horace E. Gilbert concerning what Mr. Dusterhoft and I were going to do for the Bicentennial observation there in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. In July 17, 1976, Debra S. Gosnell, a Boiter family descendant and a staff reporter for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, who wrote an article about this compiler, Horace E. Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft concerning genealogy which appeared in their July 17, 1976 edition.
Gil Co-Compiled and published with Rodney Dusterhoft in 1978 a 424 page book, "The Census Records of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1850" and a book "Index to the 1869 McCollough Map of Spartanburg County, South Carolina". He is the compiler of "The History of the Boiter-Boyter-Biter Family Spartanburg County, South Carolina". He has written articles which have appear in newspapers on the Gilbert Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina as well as the Culbreath Family of Rutherfordton Co. and Polk Country, North Carolina. Has written but not published a History of a Johnson Family of Spartanburg County, done research work on the Hicks Family of Spartanburg & Greenville Counties, South Carolina, the Cooley Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, the Rogers Family of Green Pond Community, Spartanburg County, South Carolina., The Hughes Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina., The Leonard Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, The Drummond Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, The Scruggs Family of Spartanburg County & Cherokee County, South Carolina, and the Cartee Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Visited with Carl Sandburg, author of Abraham Lincoln's biography, in his home at Flat Rock, North Carolina, on Oct. 26, 1966. He has owned a computer since 1978, without it this history would not have been written.
There have been four people who have had profound influences on the life of the compiler of this history, they are in the order in which they were met, Gerlind "Linda" Menz Gilbert; her mother, Wendula Menz, nee Countess von Pfeil und Klein Ellguth; Mr. Paul Garrett, General Manager of the Claims Dept., of The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and Rodney Dusterhoft. Mr. Garrett hired me as a Claim Agent for the B&O Railroad Co., and gave me an opportunity for a wonderful career for which I will always be grateful. I met Rodney Dusterhoft, who is known as "Dusty" in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1969 or 1970. Dusty and I have visited Germany and Poland in 1978 and 1991, as well as England and Scotland in 1978 doing research on their respective families. Rodney Dusterhoft, who was born Dec. 29, 1927, at Kingsport, Dickinson County, Michigan, the son of William Carl Dusterhoft and Nona Lucile Konkel Dusterhoft, is my very best friend. From the early 1970's until May 1997, we lived at 1142 Highcliff Court, Cincinnati. Ohio. We had a home built between June and Nov. 1998, and we closed on your new home on Nov. 13, 1998 at 5855 E. Senour Drive, West Chester, OH 45069, and moved in immediately.
The following article was published in the "Bulletin of The Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County" published in Spindale, North Carolina, in their August 1976 issue, on page 143:
"DANIEL GILBERT MEMORIAL DEDICATED"
On Saturday, 10 July 1976, a plaque commemorating the Revolutionary War and French and Indian War services of Daniel Gilbert was unveiled at ceremonies at the Gilbert Family Cemetery, near Cooley Springs in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
Daniel Gilbert was born about 1732 in Baltimore County, Maryland, moving to and serving in the Bedford County, Virginia militia as a Sergeant in the 1758 French and Indian Wars. In 1779, he was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Bedford County Military in the Revolutionary War. In later years, he moved with his family to Spartanburg County, S.C., and was a Charter member of the Boiling Springs Baptist Church in 1792. He died about 1809 in Spartanburg County.
The marker was erected to his memory by a descendant, Mr. Horace E. Gilbert, 1142 Highcliff Court, Cincinnati, Ohio 45224, who is a member of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, and a member of the Daniel Morgan Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution of Spartanburg County. Mr. Gilbert spoke to the gathering at the dedication of the plaque, and at a Gilbert Family Reunion which followed at the Arrowwood Baptist Church, Cherokee Twp., Spartanburg County, South Carolina
While in this area for these ceremonies, Mr. Horace Gilbert presented to the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County copies of his transcripts of the Spartanburg County census of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840. He also presented to the Spartanburg County Library, a large and beautifully bound volume of the Census schedules of Spartanburg County including 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840, fully indexed, which he had compiled."
Information taken from catalogue the United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Author: United States. Census Office. Title: The census records of Spartanburg County, South
Carolina, for the years 1790-1800-1810-1820-1830-1840 /
transcribed by Horace Elbert Gilbert. Published: [Cincinnati] : Gilbert, 1974. Description: 497 leaves ; 29 cm. LC Call No.: F277.S7U54 1974 Dewey No.: 929/.3757/29 Subjects: Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Census.
Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Genealogy. Other authors: Gilbert, Horace Elbert. Other titles: Census records of Spartanburg County, South
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[Books which are in the Spartanburg County Library, Spartanburg, South Carolina.]
Title: 1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina
transcribed and indexed by Horace Elbert Gilbert
and Rodney Dusterhoft. Published: Cincinnati : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1978. Description: 424 leaves ; 29 cm. LC Call No.: F277.S7A18 Dewey No.: 929/.375729 19 Subjects: Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Census, 1850.
Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Genealogy.
Registers of births, etc. -- South Carolina --
Spartanburg County. Other authors: Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Dusterhoft, Rodney. Control No.: 81163073
Carolina ... Control No.: 77360099 //r852
[The following publication was published by the Pinckney District Society of the SC. Genealogical Society, 1994; Gil & Dusty gave it to the Society and is now found in many of the libraries in the United States.]
Author: Gilbert, Horace Elbert. Title: An Enhanced 1850 Census, Spartanburg District,
South Carolina / Horace Elbert Gilbert, Rodney Dusterhoft. Published: Spartanburg, SC : Pinckney District Chapter,
South Carolina Genealogical Society, 1994. Description: p. cm. LC Call No.: 9405 BOOK NOT YET IN LC Control No.: 94066476
1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina / transcribed and indexed by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney
Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1978.
Boyter, Charles Lethco, 1886-1969.
The 588 marriages performed by Rev. Charles Lethco Boyter from 1918 to 1966 / indexed by Horace E. Gilbert.
Cincinnati, Oh. : H.E. Gilbert, 1993.
The cemetery survey for Sharon United Methodist Church near Reidville, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
compiled by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Oh. : H.E. Gilbert, 1993.
An enhanced 1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina / transcribed by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney
Dusterhoft.
Spartanburg, SC : Pinckney District Chapter, South Carolina Genealogical Society, 1994.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Barnett Burnett, 1770-1843, of Westmoreland County, Va., and Spartanburg County, South Carolina and his son Jerry Solomon Burnett of Spartanburg County, South Carolina
by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Daniel Rogers, ca. 1755-ca. 1815 of the Green Pond community of Reidville Township, Spartanburg
County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Dillard Scruggs and Sylvia Jones of Spartanburg County, South Carolina and Rutherford & Polk
Counties, North Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Edmond Cooley, Sr., and his wife Charlotte Speace Cooley of Cherokee Township, Spartanburg
County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
West Chester, Ohio : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1997.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of John Bradley Edwards of Reidville Township, Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert
Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Jonas Leonard (1765-ca. 1837) & Sarah Lanford (1771-1855) of Virginia & Reidville Township,
Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
A history of a Gilbert family : a listing of the descendants of Michael Gilbert, Sr., Michael Gilbert, Jr., Garvis Gilbert,
Daniel Gilbert / by Horace Elbert Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
A history of some of the descendants of James Johnson, Sr., 1740-1784, of Chesterfield Co., Va., Mecklenburg Co.,
Va., but primarily the descendants of his son, Howell Johnson Sr., 1762-1846 and his wife Holly Crowder, 1779-1870,
of Chesterfield Co., Va., Mecklenburg Co., Va., Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert,
assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
[Cincinnati, Ohio : H.E. Gilbert, 1996]
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
The history of the Boiter-Boyter-Biter family of Spartanburg County South Carolina : in two volumes / by Horace Elbert
Gilbert assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Oh. : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1995.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Some descendants of James Fortenberry of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and Spartanburg County, South Carolina
by Horace Elbert Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research SCMAR, Volume XVIII Number 1, Winter, 1990 The Published 1850 Census Returns for South Carolina
SCMAR, Vol. XVIII, Winter 1990, No. 1, p.12 1850 Census of Spartanburg County, South Carolina transcribed by Horace Gilbert. Full name index, 8 1/2 × 11 size. Not published. Copy available at the South Carolina Archives in Columbia for consultation.
Horace "Gil" Gilbert help organize the Sep. 24, 1994 Gilbert Family Reunion in Greens Creek Baptist Church, Polk Co, NC
Obituary Spartanburg Herald Journal
Gilbert, Horace "Gil" E. Loving brother of Nancy (Bill) Heuerman, Dorothy Clary, and the late Eugene "Tiny" Gilbert, Douglas Gilbert and Gil’s twin Doris McKee. Adored uncle to numerous nieces and nephews. Passed away January 10, 2017 at the age of 81. Visitation will be held on Monday, January 16, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. until time of service 11:00 a.m. at the Spring Grove Funeral Homes, 4389 Spring Grove Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45223, 513-853-1035. Interment to follow at Spring Grove Cemetery. Sympathy may be expressed at www.springgrove.org.
Gil and Linda had no children and were divorced July 30, 1976, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. In May 1988, Linda and Gil traveled to Darmstadt, Germany to celebrate her mother Wendula Menz's 80th birthday (in May 1988); that was the last time I saw Mutti. We called her "Mutti" which is the German word for "Mom".
In 1939/1940 or 1941, I had my ear kicked nearly off by a mule in a pasture at Simpsonville, SC. I had been to the movies to see a western; and this mule could very well been an Arabian Stallion as far as this 5 or 6 year old kid was concerned. I wanted to see if I could ride the mule, but the mule kicked me and just caught left ear and literally tore it off the side of my head except for a small piece of the ear lobe; the ear was hanging down my neck when I walked into the kitchen and ask her to put my ear back on with "sticking-plaster" which we now call adhesive-tape. My dad went for Dr. Alvin White, one of two doctors in the small town, but he was intoxicated but he came with his equipment and instructed my mother how to sow my ear back on; believe it or not, it was successful; and I never had any hearing problems; if anything even now at the age of 64 my hearing is very good, sometimes I think too good.
Horace E. Gilbert attended grade schools at Simpsonville, Greenville County, South Carolina, Westview Grade School near Spartanburg, South Carolina.; and Essex, Maryland, Colegate (North Point), Maryland, and Dundalk Elementary & Junior High at Dundalk, Maryland, but never graduated. Served as an enlisted man (A/2c) in the US Air Force 1957-1961 as a clerk-typist, after having attended basic training at Lockland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, then was assigned duties at Shaw Air Force Base, near Sumter, South Carolina, for a short time before being transferred overseas and spent 3 years at (1958-1961) at Denham AFB, near Uxbridge, Buckinghamshire, England, in the old J. Arthur Rank Motion Picture Studios, which was being used as a warehouse. Soon after arriving in England, he met in 1958 Gerlind "Linda" who spoke no English at the time. While stationed in England, Gil lived on base for a while, and from June 1958 to April 1960, rented a room at 104A Victoria Road, Ruislip Manor, Middlesex, England; after marrying, Linda and I rented an apartment at 7 Churchfield Road, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, England from April 1960 to April 1961.
Returning to civilian life in April 1961, Gil went back to his job on the assembly line for Western Electric, Baltimore, Maryland, & lived at 2926 Sollers Point Road, Dundalk, Maryland, until December 1, 1961, and then became a Claim Agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, which later merged with the C&O Railway, to become the Chessie System, which still later merged with the Seaboard Railroad to become "CSX Transportation, Inc."; having worked in Connellsville. Pennsylvania, (Dec. 15, 1962 to June 1962)& lived at Apt. 1-D, Greenwood Heights; and then transferred back to Baltimore, Maryland. living at 2983 Cornwall Rd., Dundalk, Maryland, until Dec., 10, 1963, when transferred Cincinnati, Ohio, and lived in the Mayridge Apt., in Westwood, Cincinnati, Ohio, until in Feb. 1969, when Linda and I purchased a home at 4383 Airycrest Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1998, Horace E. Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft moved to West Chester, Ohio. Gil worked out of the Cincinnati office for 31 years. Gil retired January 2, 1996 from CSX after having spent 34 years as a officer of the railroad.
He is a member of the Daniel Morgan Chapter of the South Carolina American Revolution, attended the SAR's National Congress at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a voting delegate from in 1976, and the National Congress of the SAR in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1977, in San Diego, California in 1979, and in 1980 in Dallas, Texas, a member of the Pinckney District Chapter of the South Carolina Genealogical Society (which includes Spartanburg County, South Carolina). His biography has appeared in 1975-1981 editions of The Hereditary Register of the United States of American. He has compiled and published a 424 page book "The Census Records of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1790-1800-1810-1820-1830- 1840" in 1974, which he gave to the Spartanburg Public Library in July 1976. He erected a plaque in 1976 to Rev. War Soldier, Daniel Gilbert in the old Balaam Gilbert family cemetery in the Cooley Springs Community, Cherokee Twp., Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
On July 10th, 1976 there appeared in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal in the Editorial for the day a letter which was written by Horace E. Gilbert concerning what Mr. Dusterhoft and I were going to do for the Bicentennial observation there in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. In July 17, 1976, Debra S. Gosnell, a Boiter family descendant and a staff reporter for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, who wrote an article about this compiler, Horace E. Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft concerning genealogy which appeared in their July 17, 1976 edition.
Gil Co-Compiled and published with Rodney Dusterhoft in 1978 a 424 page book, "The Census Records of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1850" and a book "Index to the 1869 McCollough Map of Spartanburg County, South Carolina". He is the compiler of "The History of the Boiter-Boyter-Biter Family Spartanburg County, South Carolina". He has written articles which have appear in newspapers on the Gilbert Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina as well as the Culbreath Family of Rutherfordton Co. and Polk Country, North Carolina. Has written but not published a History of a Johnson Family of Spartanburg County, done research work on the Hicks Family of Spartanburg & Greenville Counties, South Carolina, the Cooley Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, the Rogers Family of Green Pond Community, Spartanburg County, South Carolina., The Hughes Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina., The Leonard Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, The Drummond Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, The Scruggs Family of Spartanburg County & Cherokee County, South Carolina, and the Cartee Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Visited with Carl Sandburg, author of Abraham Lincoln's biography, in his home at Flat Rock, North Carolina, on Oct. 26, 1966. He has owned a computer since 1978, without it this history would not have been written.
There have been four people who have had profound influences on the life of the compiler of this history, they are in the order in which they were met, Gerlind "Linda" Menz Gilbert; her mother, Wendula Menz, nee Countess von Pfeil und Klein Ellguth; Mr. Paul Garrett, General Manager of the Claims Dept., of The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and Rodney Dusterhoft. Mr. Garrett hired me as a Claim Agent for the B&O Railroad Co., and gave me an opportunity for a wonderful career for which I will always be grateful. I met Rodney Dusterhoft, who is known as "Dusty" in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1969 or 1970. Dusty and I have visited Germany and Poland in 1978 and 1991, as well as England and Scotland in 1978 doing research on their respective families. Rodney Dusterhoft, who was born Dec. 29, 1927, at Kingsport, Dickinson County, Michigan, the son of William Carl Dusterhoft and Nona Lucile Konkel Dusterhoft, is my very best friend. From the early 1970's until May 1997, we lived at 1142 Highcliff Court, Cincinnati. Ohio. We had a home built between June and Nov. 1998, and we closed on your new home on Nov. 13, 1998 at 5855 E. Senour Drive, West Chester, OH 45069, and moved in immediately.
The following article was published in the "Bulletin of The Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County" published in Spindale, North Carolina, in their August 1976 issue, on page 143:
"DANIEL GILBERT MEMORIAL DEDICATED"
On Saturday, 10 July 1976, a plaque commemorating the Revolutionary War and French and Indian War services of Daniel Gilbert was unveiled at ceremonies at the Gilbert Family Cemetery, near Cooley Springs in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
Daniel Gilbert was born about 1732 in Baltimore County, Maryland, moving to and serving in the Bedford County, Virginia militia as a Sergeant in the 1758 French and Indian Wars. In 1779, he was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Bedford County Military in the Revolutionary War. In later years, he moved with his family to Spartanburg County, S.C., and was a Charter member of the Boiling Springs Baptist Church in 1792. He died about 1809 in Spartanburg County.
The marker was erected to his memory by a descendant, Mr. Horace E. Gilbert, 1142 Highcliff Court, Cincinnati, Ohio 45224, who is a member of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, and a member of the Daniel Morgan Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution of Spartanburg County. Mr. Gilbert spoke to the gathering at the dedication of the plaque, and at a Gilbert Family Reunion which followed at the Arrowwood Baptist Church, Cherokee Twp., Spartanburg County, South Carolina
While in this area for these ceremonies, Mr. Horace Gilbert presented to the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County copies of his transcripts of the Spartanburg County census of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840. He also presented to the Spartanburg County Library, a large and beautifully bound volume of the Census schedules of Spartanburg County including 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840, fully indexed, which he had compiled."
Information taken from catalogue the United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Author: United States. Census Office. Title: The census records of Spartanburg County, South
Carolina, for the years 1790-1800-1810-1820-1830-1840 /
transcribed by Horace Elbert Gilbert. Published: [Cincinnati] : Gilbert, 1974. Description: 497 leaves ; 29 cm. LC Call No.: F277.S7U54 1974 Dewey No.: 929/.3757/29 Subjects: Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Census.
Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Genealogy. Other authors: Gilbert, Horace Elbert. Other titles: Census records of Spartanburg County, South
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[Books which are in the Spartanburg County Library, Spartanburg, South Carolina.]
Title: 1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina
transcribed and indexed by Horace Elbert Gilbert
and Rodney Dusterhoft. Published: Cincinnati : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1978. Description: 424 leaves ; 29 cm. LC Call No.: F277.S7A18 Dewey No.: 929/.375729 19 Subjects: Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Census, 1850.
Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Genealogy.
Registers of births, etc. -- South Carolina --
Spartanburg County. Other authors: Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Dusterhoft, Rodney. Control No.: 81163073
Carolina ... Control No.: 77360099 //r852
[The following publication was published by the Pinckney District Society of the SC. Genealogical Society, 1994; Gil & Dusty gave it to the Society and is now found in many of the libraries in the United States.]
Author: Gilbert, Horace Elbert. Title: An Enhanced 1850 Census, Spartanburg District,
South Carolina / Horace Elbert Gilbert, Rodney Dusterhoft. Published: Spartanburg, SC : Pinckney District Chapter,
South Carolina Genealogical Society, 1994. Description: p. cm. LC Call No.: 9405 BOOK NOT YET IN LC Control No.: 94066476
1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina / transcribed and indexed by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney
Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1978.
Boyter, Charles Lethco, 1886-1969.
The 588 marriages performed by Rev. Charles Lethco Boyter from 1918 to 1966 / indexed by Horace E. Gilbert.
Cincinnati, Oh. : H.E. Gilbert, 1993.
The cemetery survey for Sharon United Methodist Church near Reidville, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
compiled by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Oh. : H.E. Gilbert, 1993.
An enhanced 1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina / transcribed by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney
Dusterhoft.
Spartanburg, SC : Pinckney District Chapter, South Carolina Genealogical Society, 1994.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Barnett Burnett, 1770-1843, of Westmoreland County, Va., and Spartanburg County, South Carolina and his son Jerry Solomon Burnett of Spartanburg County, South Carolina
by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Daniel Rogers, ca. 1755-ca. 1815 of the Green Pond community of Reidville Township, Spartanburg
County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Dillard Scruggs and Sylvia Jones of Spartanburg County, South Carolina and Rutherford & Polk
Counties, North Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Edmond Cooley, Sr., and his wife Charlotte Speace Cooley of Cherokee Township, Spartanburg
County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
West Chester, Ohio : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1997.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of John Bradley Edwards of Reidville Township, Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert
Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Jonas Leonard (1765-ca. 1837) & Sarah Lanford (1771-1855) of Virginia & Reidville Township,
Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
A history of a Gilbert family : a listing of the descendants of Michael Gilbert, Sr., Michael Gilbert, Jr., Garvis Gilbert,
Daniel Gilbert / by Horace Elbert Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
A history of some of the descendants of James Johnson, Sr., 1740-1784, of Chesterfield Co., Va., Mecklenburg Co.,
Va., but primarily the descendants of his son, Howell Johnson Sr., 1762-1846 and his wife Holly Crowder, 1779-1870,
of Chesterfield Co., Va., Mecklenburg Co., Va., Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert,
assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
[Cincinnati, Ohio : H.E. Gilbert, 1996]
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
The history of the Boiter-Boyter-Biter family of Spartanburg County South Carolina : in two volumes / by Horace Elbert
Gilbert assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Oh. : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1995.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Some descendants of James Fortenberry of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and Spartanburg County, South Carolina
by Horace Elbert Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research SCMAR, Volume XVIII Number 1, Winter, 1990 The Published 1850 Census Returns for South Carolina
SCMAR, Vol. XVIII, Winter 1990, No. 1, p.12 1850 Census of Spartanburg County, South Carolina transcribed by Horace Gilbert. Full name index, 8 1/2 × 11 size. Not published. Copy available at the South Carolina Archives in Columbia for consultation.
Horace "Gil" Gilbert help organize the Sep. 24, 1994 Gilbert Family Reunion in Greens Creek Baptist Church, Polk Co, NC
Obituary Spartanburg Herald Journal
Gilbert, Horace "Gil" E. Loving brother of Nancy (Bill) Heuerman, Dorothy Clary, and the late Eugene "Tiny" Gilbert, Douglas Gilbert and Gil’s twin Doris McKee. Adored uncle to numerous nieces and nephews. Passed away January 10, 2017 at the age of 81. Visitation will be held on Monday, January 16, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. until time of service 11:00 a.m. at the Spring Grove Funeral Homes, 4389 Spring Grove Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45223, 513-853-1035. Interment to follow at Spring Grove Cemetery. Sympathy may be expressed at www.springgrove.org.
[twin] born December 10, 1935, at home at 3132 2nd Street, Simpsonville, Greenville County, South Carolina, married April 27, 1960, in a civil ceremony at Registrar Office at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England and again 3 days later on April 30, 1960, a religious ceremony in the Stadtkirche (City Church) [Lutheran], Darmstadt, Hesse, West German, Gerland "Linda" Menz born November 12, 1938, at Schoneberg, Berlin, Germany, the only daughter of Herbert Otto Menz and Wendula, Countess von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth. (It was at the Town Hall in Schöneberg, in Berlin, where President Kennedy made his famous speech "Ich bin ein Berliner".
Gil and Linda had no children and were divorced July 30, 1976, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. In May 1988, Linda and Gil traveled to Darmstadt, Germany to celebrate her mother Wendula Menz's 80th birthday (in May 1988); that was the last time I saw Mutti. We called her "Mutti" which is the German word for "Mom".
In 1939/1940 or 1941, I had my ear kicked nearly off by a mule in a pasture at Simpsonville, SC. I had been to the movies to see a western; and this mule could very well been an Arabian Stallion as far as this 5 or 6 year old kid was concerned. I wanted to see if I could ride the mule, but the mule kicked me and just caught left ear and literally tore it off the side of my head except for a small piece of the ear lobe; the ear was hanging down my neck when I walked into the kitchen and ask her to put my ear back on with "sticking-plaster" which we now call adhesive-tape. My dad went for Dr. Alvin White, one of two doctors in the small town, but he was intoxicated but he came with his equipment and instructed my mother how to sow my ear back on; believe it or not, it was successful; and I never had any hearing problems; if anything even now at the age of 64 my hearing is very good, sometimes I think too good.
Horace E. Gilbert attended grade schools at Simpsonville, Greenville County, South Carolina, Westview Grade School near Spartanburg, South Carolina.; and Essex, Maryland, Colegate (North Point), Maryland, and Dundalk Elementary & Junior High at Dundalk, Maryland, but never graduated. Served as an enlisted man (A/2c) in the US Air Force 1957-1961 as a clerk-typist, after having attended basic training at Lockland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, then was assigned duties at Shaw Air Force Base, near Sumter, South Carolina, for a short time before being transferred overseas and spent 3 years at (1958-1961) at Denham AFB, near Uxbridge, Buckinghamshire, England, in the old J. Arthur Rank Motion Picture Studios, which was being used as a warehouse. Soon after arriving in England, he met in 1958 Gerlind "Linda" who spoke no English at the time. While stationed in England, Gil lived on base for a while, and from June 1958 to April 1960, rented a room at 104A Victoria Road, Ruislip Manor, Middlesex, England; after marrying, Linda and I rented an apartment at 7 Churchfield Road, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, England from April 1960 to April 1961.
Returning to civilian life in April 1961, Gil went back to his job on the assembly line for Western Electric, Baltimore, Maryland, & lived at 2926 Sollers Point Road, Dundalk, Maryland, until December 1, 1961, and then became a Claim Agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, which later merged with the C&O Railway, to become the Chessie System, which still later merged with the Seaboard Railroad to become "CSX Transportation, Inc."; having worked in Connellsville. Pennsylvania, (Dec. 15, 1962 to June 1962)& lived at Apt. 1-D, Greenwood Heights; and then transferred back to Baltimore, Maryland. living at 2983 Cornwall Rd., Dundalk, Maryland, until Dec., 10, 1963, when transferred Cincinnati, Ohio, and lived in the Mayridge Apt., in Westwood, Cincinnati, Ohio, until in Feb. 1969, when Linda and I purchased a home at 4383 Airycrest Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1998, Horace E. Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft moved to West Chester, Ohio. Gil worked out of the Cincinnati office for 31 years. Gil retired January 2, 1996 from CSX after having spent 34 years as a officer of the railroad.
He is a member of the Daniel Morgan Chapter of the South Carolina American Revolution, attended the SAR's National Congress at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a voting delegate from in 1976, and the National Congress of the SAR in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1977, in San Diego, California in 1979, and in 1980 in Dallas, Texas, a member of the Pinckney District Chapter of the South Carolina Genealogical Society (which includes Spartanburg County, South Carolina). His biography has appeared in 1975-1981 editions of The Hereditary Register of the United States of American. He has compiled and published a 424 page book "The Census Records of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1790-1800-1810-1820-1830- 1840" in 1974, which he gave to the Spartanburg Public Library in July 1976. He erected a plaque in 1976 to Rev. War Soldier, Daniel Gilbert in the old Balaam Gilbert family cemetery in the Cooley Springs Community, Cherokee Twp., Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
On July 10th, 1976 there appeared in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal in the Editorial for the day a letter which was written by Horace E. Gilbert concerning what Mr. Dusterhoft and I were going to do for the Bicentennial observation there in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. In July 17, 1976, Debra S. Gosnell, a Boiter family descendant and a staff reporter for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, who wrote an article about this compiler, Horace E. Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft concerning genealogy which appeared in their July 17, 1976 edition.
Gil Co-Compiled and published with Rodney Dusterhoft in 1978 a 424 page book, "The Census Records of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1850" and a book "Index to the 1869 McCollough Map of Spartanburg County, South Carolina". He is the compiler of "The History of the Boiter-Boyter-Biter Family Spartanburg County, South Carolina". He has written articles which have appear in newspapers on the Gilbert Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina as well as the Culbreath Family of Rutherfordton Co. and Polk Country, North Carolina. Has written but not published a History of a Johnson Family of Spartanburg County, done research work on the Hicks Family of Spartanburg & Greenville Counties, South Carolina, the Cooley Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, the Rogers Family of Green Pond Community, Spartanburg County, South Carolina., The Hughes Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina., The Leonard Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, The Drummond Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, The Scruggs Family of Spartanburg County & Cherokee County, South Carolina, and the Cartee Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Visited with Carl Sandburg, author of Abraham Lincoln's biography, in his home at Flat Rock, North Carolina, on Oct. 26, 1966. He has owned a computer since 1978, without it this history would not have been written.
There have been four people who have had profound influences on the life of the compiler of this history, they are in the order in which they were met, Gerlind "Linda" Menz Gilbert; her mother, Wendula Menz, nee Countess von Pfeil und Klein Ellguth; Mr. Paul Garrett, General Manager of the Claims Dept., of The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and Rodney Dusterhoft. Mr. Garrett hired me as a Claim Agent for the B&O Railroad Co., and gave me an opportunity for a wonderful career for which I will always be grateful. I met Rodney Dusterhoft, who is known as "Dusty" in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1969 or 1970. Dusty and I have visited Germany and Poland in 1978 and 1991, as well as England and Scotland in 1978 doing research on their respective families. Rodney Dusterhoft, who was born Dec. 29, 1927, at Kingsport, Dickinson County, Michigan, the son of William Carl Dusterhoft and Nona Lucile Konkel Dusterhoft, is my very best friend. From the early 1970's until May 1997, we lived at 1142 Highcliff Court, Cincinnati. Ohio. We had a home built between June and Nov. 1998, and we closed on your new home on Nov. 13, 1998 at 5855 E. Senour Drive, West Chester, OH 45069, and moved in immediately.
The following article was published in the "Bulletin of The Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County" published in Spindale, North Carolina, in their August 1976 issue, on page 143:
"DANIEL GILBERT MEMORIAL DEDICATED"
On Saturday, 10 July 1976, a plaque commemorating the Revolutionary War and French and Indian War services of Daniel Gilbert was unveiled at ceremonies at the Gilbert Family Cemetery, near Cooley Springs in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
Daniel Gilbert was born about 1732 in Baltimore County, Maryland, moving to and serving in the Bedford County, Virginia militia as a Sergeant in the 1758 French and Indian Wars. In 1779, he was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Bedford County Military in the Revolutionary War. In later years, he moved with his family to Spartanburg County, S.C., and was a Charter member of the Boiling Springs Baptist Church in 1792. He died about 1809 in Spartanburg County.
The marker was erected to his memory by a descendant, Mr. Horace E. Gilbert, 1142 Highcliff Court, Cincinnati, Ohio 45224, who is a member of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, and a member of the Daniel Morgan Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution of Spartanburg County. Mr. Gilbert spoke to the gathering at the dedication of the plaque, and at a Gilbert Family Reunion which followed at the Arrowwood Baptist Church, Cherokee Twp., Spartanburg County, South Carolina
While in this area for these ceremonies, Mr. Horace Gilbert presented to the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County copies of his transcripts of the Spartanburg County census of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840. He also presented to the Spartanburg County Library, a large and beautifully bound volume of the Census schedules of Spartanburg County including 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840, fully indexed, which he had compiled."
Information taken from catalogue the United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Author: United States. Census Office. Title: The census records of Spartanburg County, South
Carolina, for the years 1790-1800-1810-1820-1830-1840 /
transcribed by Horace Elbert Gilbert. Published: [Cincinnati] : Gilbert, 1974. Description: 497 leaves ; 29 cm. LC Call No.: F277.S7U54 1974 Dewey No.: 929/.3757/29 Subjects: Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Census.
Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Genealogy. Other authors: Gilbert, Horace Elbert. Other titles: Census records of Spartanburg County, South
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[Books which are in the Spartanburg County Library, Spartanburg, South Carolina.]
Title: 1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina
transcribed and indexed by Horace Elbert Gilbert
and Rodney Dusterhoft. Published: Cincinnati : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1978. Description: 424 leaves ; 29 cm. LC Call No.: F277.S7A18 Dewey No.: 929/.375729 19 Subjects: Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Census, 1850.
Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Genealogy.
Registers of births, etc. -- South Carolina --
Spartanburg County. Other authors: Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Dusterhoft, Rodney. Control No.: 81163073
Carolina ... Control No.: 77360099 //r852
[The following publication was published by the Pinckney District Society of the SC. Genealogical Society, 1994; Gil & Dusty gave it to the Society and is now found in many of the libraries in the United States.]
Author: Gilbert, Horace Elbert. Title: An Enhanced 1850 Census, Spartanburg District,
South Carolina / Horace Elbert Gilbert, Rodney Dusterhoft. Published: Spartanburg, SC : Pinckney District Chapter,
South Carolina Genealogical Society, 1994. Description: p. cm. LC Call No.: 9405 BOOK NOT YET IN LC Control No.: 94066476
1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina / transcribed and indexed by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney
Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1978.
Boyter, Charles Lethco, 1886-1969.
The 588 marriages performed by Rev. Charles Lethco Boyter from 1918 to 1966 / indexed by Horace E. Gilbert.
Cincinnati, Oh. : H.E. Gilbert, 1993.
The cemetery survey for Sharon United Methodist Church near Reidville, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
compiled by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Oh. : H.E. Gilbert, 1993.
An enhanced 1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina / transcribed by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney
Dusterhoft.
Spartanburg, SC : Pinckney District Chapter, South Carolina Genealogical Society, 1994.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Barnett Burnett, 1770-1843, of Westmoreland County, Va., and Spartanburg County, South Carolina and his son Jerry Solomon Burnett of Spartanburg County, South Carolina
by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Daniel Rogers, ca. 1755-ca. 1815 of the Green Pond community of Reidville Township, Spartanburg
County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Dillard Scruggs and Sylvia Jones of Spartanburg County, South Carolina and Rutherford & Polk
Counties, North Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Edmond Cooley, Sr., and his wife Charlotte Speace Cooley of Cherokee Township, Spartanburg
County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
West Chester, Ohio : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1997.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of John Bradley Edwards of Reidville Township, Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert
Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Jonas Leonard (1765-ca. 1837) & Sarah Lanford (1771-1855) of Virginia & Reidville Township,
Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
A history of a Gilbert family : a listing of the descendants of Michael Gilbert, Sr., Michael Gilbert, Jr., Garvis Gilbert,
Daniel Gilbert / by Horace Elbert Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
A history of some of the descendants of James Johnson, Sr., 1740-1784, of Chesterfield Co., Va., Mecklenburg Co.,
Va., but primarily the descendants of his son, Howell Johnson Sr., 1762-1846 and his wife Holly Crowder, 1779-1870,
of Chesterfield Co., Va., Mecklenburg Co., Va., Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert,
assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
[Cincinnati, Ohio : H.E. Gilbert, 1996]
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
The history of the Boiter-Boyter-Biter family of Spartanburg County South Carolina : in two volumes / by Horace Elbert
Gilbert assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Oh. : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1995.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Some descendants of James Fortenberry of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and Spartanburg County, South Carolina
by Horace Elbert Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research SCMAR, Volume XVIII Number 1, Winter, 1990 The Published 1850 Census Returns for South Carolina
SCMAR, Vol. XVIII, Winter 1990, No. 1, p.12 1850 Census of Spartanburg County, South Carolina transcribed by Horace Gilbert. Full name index, 8 1/2 × 11 size. Not published. Copy available at the South Carolina Archives in Columbia for consultation.
Horace "Gil" Gilbert help organize the Sep. 24, 1994 Gilbert Family Reunion in Greens Creek Baptist Church, Polk Co, NC
Obituary Spartanburg Herald Journal
Gilbert, Horace "Gil" E. Loving brother of Nancy (Bill) Heuerman, Dorothy Clary, and the late Eugene "Tiny" Gilbert, Douglas Gilbert and Gil’s twin Doris McKee. Adored uncle to numerous nieces and nephews. Passed away January 10, 2017 at the age of 81. Visitation will be held on Monday, January 16, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. until time of service 11:00 a.m. at the Spring Grove Funeral Homes, 4389 Spring Grove Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45223, 513-853-1035. Interment to follow at Spring Grove Cemetery. Sympathy may be expressed at www.springgrove.org.
Gil and Linda had no children and were divorced July 30, 1976, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. In May 1988, Linda and Gil traveled to Darmstadt, Germany to celebrate her mother Wendula Menz's 80th birthday (in May 1988); that was the last time I saw Mutti. We called her "Mutti" which is the German word for "Mom".
In 1939/1940 or 1941, I had my ear kicked nearly off by a mule in a pasture at Simpsonville, SC. I had been to the movies to see a western; and this mule could very well been an Arabian Stallion as far as this 5 or 6 year old kid was concerned. I wanted to see if I could ride the mule, but the mule kicked me and just caught left ear and literally tore it off the side of my head except for a small piece of the ear lobe; the ear was hanging down my neck when I walked into the kitchen and ask her to put my ear back on with "sticking-plaster" which we now call adhesive-tape. My dad went for Dr. Alvin White, one of two doctors in the small town, but he was intoxicated but he came with his equipment and instructed my mother how to sow my ear back on; believe it or not, it was successful; and I never had any hearing problems; if anything even now at the age of 64 my hearing is very good, sometimes I think too good.
Horace E. Gilbert attended grade schools at Simpsonville, Greenville County, South Carolina, Westview Grade School near Spartanburg, South Carolina.; and Essex, Maryland, Colegate (North Point), Maryland, and Dundalk Elementary & Junior High at Dundalk, Maryland, but never graduated. Served as an enlisted man (A/2c) in the US Air Force 1957-1961 as a clerk-typist, after having attended basic training at Lockland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, then was assigned duties at Shaw Air Force Base, near Sumter, South Carolina, for a short time before being transferred overseas and spent 3 years at (1958-1961) at Denham AFB, near Uxbridge, Buckinghamshire, England, in the old J. Arthur Rank Motion Picture Studios, which was being used as a warehouse. Soon after arriving in England, he met in 1958 Gerlind "Linda" who spoke no English at the time. While stationed in England, Gil lived on base for a while, and from June 1958 to April 1960, rented a room at 104A Victoria Road, Ruislip Manor, Middlesex, England; after marrying, Linda and I rented an apartment at 7 Churchfield Road, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, England from April 1960 to April 1961.
Returning to civilian life in April 1961, Gil went back to his job on the assembly line for Western Electric, Baltimore, Maryland, & lived at 2926 Sollers Point Road, Dundalk, Maryland, until December 1, 1961, and then became a Claim Agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, which later merged with the C&O Railway, to become the Chessie System, which still later merged with the Seaboard Railroad to become "CSX Transportation, Inc."; having worked in Connellsville. Pennsylvania, (Dec. 15, 1962 to June 1962)& lived at Apt. 1-D, Greenwood Heights; and then transferred back to Baltimore, Maryland. living at 2983 Cornwall Rd., Dundalk, Maryland, until Dec., 10, 1963, when transferred Cincinnati, Ohio, and lived in the Mayridge Apt., in Westwood, Cincinnati, Ohio, until in Feb. 1969, when Linda and I purchased a home at 4383 Airycrest Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1998, Horace E. Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft moved to West Chester, Ohio. Gil worked out of the Cincinnati office for 31 years. Gil retired January 2, 1996 from CSX after having spent 34 years as a officer of the railroad.
He is a member of the Daniel Morgan Chapter of the South Carolina American Revolution, attended the SAR's National Congress at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a voting delegate from in 1976, and the National Congress of the SAR in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1977, in San Diego, California in 1979, and in 1980 in Dallas, Texas, a member of the Pinckney District Chapter of the South Carolina Genealogical Society (which includes Spartanburg County, South Carolina). His biography has appeared in 1975-1981 editions of The Hereditary Register of the United States of American. He has compiled and published a 424 page book "The Census Records of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1790-1800-1810-1820-1830- 1840" in 1974, which he gave to the Spartanburg Public Library in July 1976. He erected a plaque in 1976 to Rev. War Soldier, Daniel Gilbert in the old Balaam Gilbert family cemetery in the Cooley Springs Community, Cherokee Twp., Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
On July 10th, 1976 there appeared in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal in the Editorial for the day a letter which was written by Horace E. Gilbert concerning what Mr. Dusterhoft and I were going to do for the Bicentennial observation there in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. In July 17, 1976, Debra S. Gosnell, a Boiter family descendant and a staff reporter for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, who wrote an article about this compiler, Horace E. Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft concerning genealogy which appeared in their July 17, 1976 edition.
Gil Co-Compiled and published with Rodney Dusterhoft in 1978 a 424 page book, "The Census Records of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1850" and a book "Index to the 1869 McCollough Map of Spartanburg County, South Carolina". He is the compiler of "The History of the Boiter-Boyter-Biter Family Spartanburg County, South Carolina". He has written articles which have appear in newspapers on the Gilbert Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina as well as the Culbreath Family of Rutherfordton Co. and Polk Country, North Carolina. Has written but not published a History of a Johnson Family of Spartanburg County, done research work on the Hicks Family of Spartanburg & Greenville Counties, South Carolina, the Cooley Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, the Rogers Family of Green Pond Community, Spartanburg County, South Carolina., The Hughes Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina., The Leonard Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, The Drummond Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, The Scruggs Family of Spartanburg County & Cherokee County, South Carolina, and the Cartee Family of Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Visited with Carl Sandburg, author of Abraham Lincoln's biography, in his home at Flat Rock, North Carolina, on Oct. 26, 1966. He has owned a computer since 1978, without it this history would not have been written.
There have been four people who have had profound influences on the life of the compiler of this history, they are in the order in which they were met, Gerlind "Linda" Menz Gilbert; her mother, Wendula Menz, nee Countess von Pfeil und Klein Ellguth; Mr. Paul Garrett, General Manager of the Claims Dept., of The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and Rodney Dusterhoft. Mr. Garrett hired me as a Claim Agent for the B&O Railroad Co., and gave me an opportunity for a wonderful career for which I will always be grateful. I met Rodney Dusterhoft, who is known as "Dusty" in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1969 or 1970. Dusty and I have visited Germany and Poland in 1978 and 1991, as well as England and Scotland in 1978 doing research on their respective families. Rodney Dusterhoft, who was born Dec. 29, 1927, at Kingsport, Dickinson County, Michigan, the son of William Carl Dusterhoft and Nona Lucile Konkel Dusterhoft, is my very best friend. From the early 1970's until May 1997, we lived at 1142 Highcliff Court, Cincinnati. Ohio. We had a home built between June and Nov. 1998, and we closed on your new home on Nov. 13, 1998 at 5855 E. Senour Drive, West Chester, OH 45069, and moved in immediately.
The following article was published in the "Bulletin of The Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County" published in Spindale, North Carolina, in their August 1976 issue, on page 143:
"DANIEL GILBERT MEMORIAL DEDICATED"
On Saturday, 10 July 1976, a plaque commemorating the Revolutionary War and French and Indian War services of Daniel Gilbert was unveiled at ceremonies at the Gilbert Family Cemetery, near Cooley Springs in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
Daniel Gilbert was born about 1732 in Baltimore County, Maryland, moving to and serving in the Bedford County, Virginia militia as a Sergeant in the 1758 French and Indian Wars. In 1779, he was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Bedford County Military in the Revolutionary War. In later years, he moved with his family to Spartanburg County, S.C., and was a Charter member of the Boiling Springs Baptist Church in 1792. He died about 1809 in Spartanburg County.
The marker was erected to his memory by a descendant, Mr. Horace E. Gilbert, 1142 Highcliff Court, Cincinnati, Ohio 45224, who is a member of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, and a member of the Daniel Morgan Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution of Spartanburg County. Mr. Gilbert spoke to the gathering at the dedication of the plaque, and at a Gilbert Family Reunion which followed at the Arrowwood Baptist Church, Cherokee Twp., Spartanburg County, South Carolina
While in this area for these ceremonies, Mr. Horace Gilbert presented to the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County copies of his transcripts of the Spartanburg County census of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840. He also presented to the Spartanburg County Library, a large and beautifully bound volume of the Census schedules of Spartanburg County including 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840, fully indexed, which he had compiled."
Information taken from catalogue the United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Author: United States. Census Office. Title: The census records of Spartanburg County, South
Carolina, for the years 1790-1800-1810-1820-1830-1840 /
transcribed by Horace Elbert Gilbert. Published: [Cincinnati] : Gilbert, 1974. Description: 497 leaves ; 29 cm. LC Call No.: F277.S7U54 1974 Dewey No.: 929/.3757/29 Subjects: Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Census.
Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Genealogy. Other authors: Gilbert, Horace Elbert. Other titles: Census records of Spartanburg County, South
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[Books which are in the Spartanburg County Library, Spartanburg, South Carolina.]
Title: 1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina
transcribed and indexed by Horace Elbert Gilbert
and Rodney Dusterhoft. Published: Cincinnati : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1978. Description: 424 leaves ; 29 cm. LC Call No.: F277.S7A18 Dewey No.: 929/.375729 19 Subjects: Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Census, 1850.
Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Genealogy.
Registers of births, etc. -- South Carolina --
Spartanburg County. Other authors: Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Dusterhoft, Rodney. Control No.: 81163073
Carolina ... Control No.: 77360099 //r852
[The following publication was published by the Pinckney District Society of the SC. Genealogical Society, 1994; Gil & Dusty gave it to the Society and is now found in many of the libraries in the United States.]
Author: Gilbert, Horace Elbert. Title: An Enhanced 1850 Census, Spartanburg District,
South Carolina / Horace Elbert Gilbert, Rodney Dusterhoft. Published: Spartanburg, SC : Pinckney District Chapter,
South Carolina Genealogical Society, 1994. Description: p. cm. LC Call No.: 9405 BOOK NOT YET IN LC Control No.: 94066476
1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina / transcribed and indexed by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney
Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1978.
Boyter, Charles Lethco, 1886-1969.
The 588 marriages performed by Rev. Charles Lethco Boyter from 1918 to 1966 / indexed by Horace E. Gilbert.
Cincinnati, Oh. : H.E. Gilbert, 1993.
The cemetery survey for Sharon United Methodist Church near Reidville, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
compiled by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Oh. : H.E. Gilbert, 1993.
An enhanced 1850 census, Spartanburg District, South Carolina / transcribed by Horace Elbert Gilbert and Rodney
Dusterhoft.
Spartanburg, SC : Pinckney District Chapter, South Carolina Genealogical Society, 1994.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Barnett Burnett, 1770-1843, of Westmoreland County, Va., and Spartanburg County, South Carolina and his son Jerry Solomon Burnett of Spartanburg County, South Carolina
by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Daniel Rogers, ca. 1755-ca. 1815 of the Green Pond community of Reidville Township, Spartanburg
County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Dillard Scruggs and Sylvia Jones of Spartanburg County, South Carolina and Rutherford & Polk
Counties, North Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Edmond Cooley, Sr., and his wife Charlotte Speace Cooley of Cherokee Township, Spartanburg
County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
West Chester, Ohio : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1997.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of John Bradley Edwards of Reidville Township, Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert
Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Descendants of Jonas Leonard (1765-ca. 1837) & Sarah Lanford (1771-1855) of Virginia & Reidville Township,
Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert & Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
A history of a Gilbert family : a listing of the descendants of Michael Gilbert, Sr., Michael Gilbert, Jr., Garvis Gilbert,
Daniel Gilbert / by Horace Elbert Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
A history of some of the descendants of James Johnson, Sr., 1740-1784, of Chesterfield Co., Va., Mecklenburg Co.,
Va., but primarily the descendants of his son, Howell Johnson Sr., 1762-1846 and his wife Holly Crowder, 1779-1870,
of Chesterfield Co., Va., Mecklenburg Co., Va., Spartanburg County, South Carolina / by Horace Elbert Gilbert,
assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
[Cincinnati, Ohio : H.E. Gilbert, 1996]
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
The history of the Boiter-Boyter-Biter family of Spartanburg County South Carolina : in two volumes / by Horace Elbert
Gilbert assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Oh. : Gilbert & Dusterhoft, 1995.
Gilbert, Horace Elbert.
Some descendants of James Fortenberry of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and Spartanburg County, South Carolina
by Horace Elbert Gilbert ; assisted by Rodney Dusterhoft.
Cincinnati, Ohio : [Gilbert & Dusterhoft], 1996.
The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research SCMAR, Volume XVIII Number 1, Winter, 1990 The Published 1850 Census Returns for South Carolina
SCMAR, Vol. XVIII, Winter 1990, No. 1, p.12 1850 Census of Spartanburg County, South Carolina transcribed by Horace Gilbert. Full name index, 8 1/2 × 11 size. Not published. Copy available at the South Carolina Archives in Columbia for consultation.
Horace "Gil" Gilbert help organize the Sep. 24, 1994 Gilbert Family Reunion in Greens Creek Baptist Church, Polk Co, NC
Obituary Spartanburg Herald Journal
Gilbert, Horace "Gil" E. Loving brother of Nancy (Bill) Heuerman, Dorothy Clary, and the late Eugene "Tiny" Gilbert, Douglas Gilbert and Gil’s twin Doris McKee. Adored uncle to numerous nieces and nephews. Passed away January 10, 2017 at the age of 81. Visitation will be held on Monday, January 16, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. until time of service 11:00 a.m. at the Spring Grove Funeral Homes, 4389 Spring Grove Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45223, 513-853-1035. Interment to follow at Spring Grove Cemetery. Sympathy may be expressed at www.springgrove.org.
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