Grandma was born in the Puncheon Branch community near Minor Hill, Giles Co., TN to Lewis Houston Cole and Louisa Elizabeth Baulch. She was one of nine children, including two sets of fraternal twins. She went by Pearl her entire adult life, but was "Mattie" in the 1900 census, named after her father's mother. On her delayed birth certificate recorded in 1951, she attested that her name was "Mattie Pearl Cole."
She met my grandfather, Russell Gilbert of Prospect, Giles Co. TN, through her sister Anna who had married a man who lived in Prospect and moved there. Grandma and Grandpa married later in life as it was considered during those days in 1922. (She was 29 and Grandpa 27.) They had their two eldest children in Giles County, and their remaining three after they moved north to Akron, Ohio.
As my aunts tell it, Grandma and Grandpa owned a small store/gas station in Prospect which was how they earned a living. When it burned without being insured and all records inside, they had no way to rebuild or even collect money owed to them, so Grandpa headed north to Akron where jobs were plentiful in the rubber factories. Grandma who was pregnant with my Aunt Mildred at the time, stayed behind and along with my dad who was toddler, moved in with her brother Wilson. After Aunt Mildred was born and my grandfather had gotten a job and was settled in Akron, he returned to Tennessee to bring them to Ohio where they would live out their lives.
In 1974, my grandfather collapsed at home from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. My aunts told me that Grandma, as small as she was and as big as he was, managed to change him into good pajamas before the ambulance arrived.
She died in the hospital from complications of bowel instruction surgery. at age 90.
Obituary
Pearl M. Gilbert, 90, formerly of 913 Minota Ave., went home to be with the Lord February 6 after a short illness.
She was born in Minor Hill, Tenn., and had lived in Akron the past 60 years. Mrs. Gilbert was a housewife and a member of the Harpster Church of Christ.
She is survived by three daughters. She leaves son, Ivan Gilbert of Barberton; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services Wednesday, 3 p.m. at the Eckard-Baldwin Funeral Home, Pastor George S. LeMasters officiating. Burial Hillside Memorial Park.
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She met my grandfather, Russell Gilbert of Prospect, Giles Co. TN, through her sister Anna who had married a man who lived in Prospect and moved there. Grandma and Grandpa married later in life as it was considered during those days in 1922. (She was 29 and Grandpa 27.) They had their two eldest children in Giles County, and their remaining three after they moved north to Akron, Ohio.
As my aunts tell it, Grandma and Grandpa owned a small store/gas station in Prospect which was how they earned a living. When it burned without being insured and all records inside, they had no way to rebuild or even collect money owed to them, so Grandpa headed north to Akron where jobs were plentiful in the rubber factories. Grandma who was pregnant with my Aunt Mildred at the time, stayed behind and along with my dad who was toddler, moved in with her brother Wilson. After Aunt Mildred was born and my grandfather had gotten a job and was settled in Akron, he returned to Tennessee to bring them to Ohio where they would live out their lives.
In 1974, my grandfather collapsed at home from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. My aunts told me that Grandma, as small as she was and as big as he was, managed to change him into good pajamas before the ambulance arrived.
She died in the hospital from complications of bowel instruction surgery. at age 90.
Obituary
Pearl M. Gilbert, 90, formerly of 913 Minota Ave., went home to be with the Lord February 6 after a short illness.
She was born in Minor Hill, Tenn., and had lived in Akron the past 60 years. Mrs. Gilbert was a housewife and a member of the Harpster Church of Christ.
She is survived by three daughters. She leaves son, Ivan Gilbert of Barberton; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services Wednesday, 3 p.m. at the Eckard-Baldwin Funeral Home, Pastor George S. LeMasters officiating. Burial Hillside Memorial Park.
(Posted with permission of the family)
Grandma was born in the Puncheon Branch community near Minor Hill, Giles Co., TN to Lewis Houston Cole and Louisa Elizabeth Baulch. She was one of nine children, including two sets of fraternal twins. She went by Pearl her entire adult life, but was "Mattie" in the 1900 census, named after her father's mother. On her delayed birth certificate recorded in 1951, she attested that her name was "Mattie Pearl Cole."
She met my grandfather, Russell Gilbert of Prospect, Giles Co. TN, through her sister Anna who had married a man who lived in Prospect and moved there. Grandma and Grandpa married later in life as it was considered during those days in 1922. (She was 29 and Grandpa 27.) They had their two eldest children in Giles County, and their remaining three after they moved north to Akron, Ohio.
As my aunts tell it, Grandma and Grandpa owned a small store/gas station in Prospect which was how they earned a living. When it burned without being insured and all records inside, they had no way to rebuild or even collect money owed to them, so Grandpa headed north to Akron where jobs were plentiful in the rubber factories. Grandma who was pregnant with my Aunt Mildred at the time, stayed behind and along with my dad who was toddler, moved in with her brother Wilson. After Aunt Mildred was born and my grandfather had gotten a job and was settled in Akron, he returned to Tennessee to bring them to Ohio where they would live out their lives.
In 1974, my grandfather collapsed at home from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. My aunts told me that Grandma, as small as she was and as big as he was, managed to change him into good pajamas before the ambulance arrived.
She died in the hospital from complications of bowel instruction surgery. at age 90.
Obituary
Pearl M. Gilbert, 90, formerly of 913 Minota Ave., went home to be with the Lord February 6 after a short illness.
She was born in Minor Hill, Tenn., and had lived in Akron the past 60 years. Mrs. Gilbert was a housewife and a member of the Harpster Church of Christ.
She is survived by three daughters. She leaves son, Ivan Gilbert of Barberton; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services Wednesday, 3 p.m. at the Eckard-Baldwin Funeral Home, Pastor George S. LeMasters officiating. Burial Hillside Memorial Park.
(Posted with permission of the family)
She met my grandfather, Russell Gilbert of Prospect, Giles Co. TN, through her sister Anna who had married a man who lived in Prospect and moved there. Grandma and Grandpa married later in life as it was considered during those days in 1922. (She was 29 and Grandpa 27.) They had their two eldest children in Giles County, and their remaining three after they moved north to Akron, Ohio.
As my aunts tell it, Grandma and Grandpa owned a small store/gas station in Prospect which was how they earned a living. When it burned without being insured and all records inside, they had no way to rebuild or even collect money owed to them, so Grandpa headed north to Akron where jobs were plentiful in the rubber factories. Grandma who was pregnant with my Aunt Mildred at the time, stayed behind and along with my dad who was toddler, moved in with her brother Wilson. After Aunt Mildred was born and my grandfather had gotten a job and was settled in Akron, he returned to Tennessee to bring them to Ohio where they would live out their lives.
In 1974, my grandfather collapsed at home from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. My aunts told me that Grandma, as small as she was and as big as he was, managed to change him into good pajamas before the ambulance arrived.
She died in the hospital from complications of bowel instruction surgery. at age 90.
Obituary
Pearl M. Gilbert, 90, formerly of 913 Minota Ave., went home to be with the Lord February 6 after a short illness.
She was born in Minor Hill, Tenn., and had lived in Akron the past 60 years. Mrs. Gilbert was a housewife and a member of the Harpster Church of Christ.
She is survived by three daughters. She leaves son, Ivan Gilbert of Barberton; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services Wednesday, 3 p.m. at the Eckard-Baldwin Funeral Home, Pastor George S. LeMasters officiating. Burial Hillside Memorial Park.
(Posted with permission of the family)
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