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Adelia Adaline Gertrude “Delia” <I>Dodge</I> Gilmore

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Adelia Adaline Gertrude “Delia” Dodge Gilmore

Birth
Marengo, McHenry County, Illinois, USA
Death
23 Jun 1933 (aged 80)
Burial
Storm Lake, Buena Vista County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Section 9, Row 4, #49
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Born in Marengo, IL, the eldest child of Trustrum and Adaline Harvey Dodge, she moved with her parents first to Volga City, Clayton County, IA in 1853 and then in 1858 to Winnebago, MN where they experienced the Sioux Indian uprising of 1862. The family moved back to Clayton Couny, IA in 1869 due to "Indian troubles". She married George "Jesse" Gilmore of Colesburg on Christmas Day 1871. Her parents and siblings had moved to Crowley, TX near Ft. Worth in 1876 and she and Jesse moved to Ft. Worth in 1878 with their young family to join her family there. Jesse raised a herd of longhorn cattle to drive back north to western Iowa in 1880 and they lived the remainder of their lives in Ida, Cherokee and Buena Vista Counties.

After Jesse died in 1910 she lived with her two younger daughters, Florence and Mildred, in their home in Storm Lake. Once she had married off all nine of her daughters she married a second time herself, in 1922, to Alanson M. Morse, a widower and successful farmer from Grant Township, who preceded her in death in 1930.

Her headstone in the Storm Lake Cemetery lists her as "Gilmore, Mother 1853-1933". She is buried with her first husband Jesse Gilmore, who is listed on the same headstone as "Gilmore, Father 1852-1910".
Born in Marengo, IL, the eldest child of Trustrum and Adaline Harvey Dodge, she moved with her parents first to Volga City, Clayton County, IA in 1853 and then in 1858 to Winnebago, MN where they experienced the Sioux Indian uprising of 1862. The family moved back to Clayton Couny, IA in 1869 due to "Indian troubles". She married George "Jesse" Gilmore of Colesburg on Christmas Day 1871. Her parents and siblings had moved to Crowley, TX near Ft. Worth in 1876 and she and Jesse moved to Ft. Worth in 1878 with their young family to join her family there. Jesse raised a herd of longhorn cattle to drive back north to western Iowa in 1880 and they lived the remainder of their lives in Ida, Cherokee and Buena Vista Counties.

After Jesse died in 1910 she lived with her two younger daughters, Florence and Mildred, in their home in Storm Lake. Once she had married off all nine of her daughters she married a second time herself, in 1922, to Alanson M. Morse, a widower and successful farmer from Grant Township, who preceded her in death in 1930.

Her headstone in the Storm Lake Cemetery lists her as "Gilmore, Mother 1853-1933". She is buried with her first husband Jesse Gilmore, who is listed on the same headstone as "Gilmore, Father 1852-1910".

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