Clara A. Leese
(1854-1934)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. David S. Gilbert

Clara A. Leese 1 2 3 4

  • Born: 11 Dec 1854, , , PA 2 4
  • Marriage (1): David S. Gilbert
  • Died: 23 Apr 1934, Fritztown, Berks, PA at age 79 2 3 4
  • Buried: 26 Apr 1934, Sinking Spring: Sinking Spring Cemetery, Berks, PA 2 3 4

   FamilySearch ID: LKKD-N3T.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Cause of Death: cerebral hemorrhage, 23 Apr 1934, Spring Twp., Berks, PA. 4

2. Obituary: Reading Eagle: obituary of Mrs. Clara Gilbert on 24 Apr 1934 in Reading, Berks, PA. 3 Mrs. Clara Gilbert
Fritztown, April 24--Clara (Leese), widow of David Gilbert, died at her home, near here, aged 79 years. She was a daughter of the late John and Eliza (Zimmerman) Leese. There survives one daughter, Lillian, at home.
Funeral services, Thursday at 2 p.m. at the C. Norman Lamm funeral home, Wernersville, the Rev. J. W. Lazarus officiating. Interment in Sinking Spring Cemetery.

3. Obituary: Lebanon Daily News: obituary of Mrs. Clara Gilbert on 25 Apr 1934 in Lebanon, Lebanon, PA. 5 MRS. CLARA GILBERT, 79, DIES NEAR SINKING SPRING
Mrs. Clara Gilbert (nee Leeae) of David Gilbert, died on Monday at her residence near SinkIng Spring of a complication of ailments following a brief Illness. She was 79 years of ago and resided in nany years prior to taking up residence near Slnking Spring about twenty years ago. Her late husband conducted a bakery on South Twelfth street in this city for many years. She will be well remermbered by older residents and was a former memlber of Lutheran Church of this city. She leaves a daughter, Miss Lillle Gilbert at home and a grandson, Gilbert Downs, of Pittshurgh.


Clara married David S. Gilbert, son of John K. Gilbert and Susanna Bicher. (David S. Gilbert was born on 4 Mar 1852 in , Lebanon, PA 1 2 6, christened on 4 Jul 1852 in Lebanon: Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lebanon, PA,6 died on 5 Oct 1929 in Spring Twp., Berks, PA 1 2 and was buried on 8 Oct 1929 in Sinking Spring: Sinking Spring Cemetery, Berks, PA 1 2.)


Sources


1 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1970 (Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates. Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Certificate 99358. David S. Gilbert. Father John C. Gilbert. Mother Susan Biecher. Spouse Clara A. Leese. Informant Lillie A. Gilbert.

2 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32783500.

3 Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) (Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.), 24 Apr 1934, page 22. Obituary of Mrs. Clara Gilbert.

4 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1970 (Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates. Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Certificate 36343. Clara Gilbert. Father John Leese. Mother Eliza Zimmerman. Spouse David Gilbert. Informant Lillie Gilbert.

5 Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon, PA), 25 Apr 1934, page 10. Obituary of Clara Gilbert.

6 FamilySearch.org, Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2N5-FTW David Bicher Gilbert.



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