Match! CA: Gilbert, James Age: 62 / DOB:

Name: James Gilbert

SSN: 545-44-8332 Last Residence: 92363 Needles, San Bernardino, California, United States of America Born: 13 Dec 1936 Died: 20 Jun 1999 State (Year) SSN issued: California (Before 1951)

In 1940:
There is only one James/Jim/Jimmie Gilbert born in Kansas in the right time frame. Jimmie Lee Gilbert, age 2, son of Derwood C. Gilbert and wife Mildred, living in Wheeler, Texas.

Derwood C Gilbert 35, Missouri
Mildred Gilbert 29, Kansas,
Jimmie Lee Gilbert 3, Oklahoma
Bertha Lawhorn 53, Washington (widowed mother in law)
Erna Wilkerson 36, Kansas (widowed sister in law)
Bernal Wilkerson 5, Illinois (niece)
Billie D Gilbert 17, Oklahoma, brother

In 1944, there is a Derwood C. Gilbert in Los Angeles at 306 S. Lucia Ave.


According to the Social Security Death Index, Derwood Gilbert b. 9 Jan 1905 died Apr 1968 in Newhall, Los Angeles, California. The California Death Index adds the info that he was born in Missouri and his mother's maiden name was Fry.

Mildred Lawhorn Gilbert, mother of the unclaimed James, was born 6 July 1910 in Oklahoma, died 20 July 1944 in Los Angeles County. Her mother's maiden name was Olinger.

The 1910, 1920 and 1930 censuses show us that Mildred's parents are Jim Lawhorn and Bertha Olinger, and she has a sister Erna b. c. 1904, Kansas, and a brother, Marion, b. c. 1907, Kansas. These siblings would be aunt and uncle of our James.

Marion married Lora Elsie Taylor and was living in Gray County, TX in 1930.
Lora is listed on Find a Grave.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=lawhorn&GSfn=lora&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=18117304&df=all&
Her great-niece has contact info listed on Find a Grave, linked to from Lora Lawhorn's page.

Lora would be James' aunt by marriage. Her great-niece might know how to find other family members.

Unclaimed's father remarried at least twice:

California Marriages:

name: Derwood C Gilbert
event: Marriage
event date: 16 Jul 1945
event place: Los Angeles, California, United States
gender: Male
age: 40
estimated birth year: 1905
father: Lee Gilbert
mother: Aggie Fry
spouse: Bernice Epperly
spouse's age: 28
spouse's gender: Female
spouse's estimated birth year: 1917
spouse's father: John A Dunlap
spouse's mother: Mary Pate
page: 87
film number: 2115071
digital folder number: 005698704
image number: 02087

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Name: Derwood Clyde Gilbert
event: Marriage
event date: 31 Aug 1946
event place: Los Angeles, California, United States
gender: Male
age: 41
estimated birth year: 1905
father: Lee Gilbert
mother: Maggie Fry
spouse: Freda Le Ann Burnett
spouse's age: 40
spouse's gender: Female
spouse's estimated birth year: 1906
spouse's father: Jury Lee Hall
spouse's mother: Florence E Maddy
page: 146
film number: 2115628
digital folder number: 005698734
image number: 01098

Paternal aunt:

California Marriages

name: RP
event: Marriage
event date: 23 Nov 1945
event place: Los Angeles, California, United States
gender: Male
age: 22
estimated birth year: 1923
father: Vincent Poche
mother: Eola Lockett
spouse: LG
spouse's age: 20
spouse's gender: Female
spouse's estimated birth year: 1925
spouse's father: Lee V Gilbert
spouse's mother: Aggie Frie
page: 140
film number: 2115296
digital folder number: 005698716
image number: 01099

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California Death Index

Name: Loyce Ella Lussier
[Loyce Ella Gilbert]
Social Security #: 461346548
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 6 Sep 1923
Birth Place: Oklahoma
Death Date: 25 Apr 1993
Death Place: Los Angeles
Mother's Maiden Name: Fry
Father's Surname: Gilbert

Sent contact info to Raine