Lewis Jay Hilbert ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: 9C6N-54X.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1870 in Port Carbon, Schuylkill, PA. ⁶ The 1870 recorded Levey Hilbert, boat builder, 49, living with wife Sarah, 42; Susan, 20; George 17, and son Lewis, 4 months, marked as born in February in the census column. Levey has no real estate value and personal estate worth $300, but his wife Sarah has real estate valued at $600, suggesting they are living on land her family owned. Also in the home is Sarah's mother, Susan Kepley, 72. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office was Minersville. The census was recorded on 17 Aug 1870.

2. He has conflicting birth information of HIs grave plaque bears an 1872 birth date, but many records confirm the Lewis appearing in the 1870 census as a 4-month infant born in Feb 1870 is indeed the same Lewis., 11 Feb 1872 and Port Carbon, Schuylkill, PA. ^{1 3}

3. Census in 1880 in Port Carbon, Schuylkill, PA. ⁸ The 1880 census recorded Sarah Hilbert, widowed, 52, living with son George, 26; son Lewis, 10; daughter Emma, 8; and mother Susan Kepley, 75. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

4. Census in 1900 in Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ⁹ The 1900 census recorded at 27 Oak Street: Lemi HIlbert, 29, born Feb 1871, living with wife Edith, 26, Oct 1874; daughter Ruth, 3, Sep 1897; and boarder Sophie Bucher [Beecher], 26, Feb 1874. The couple had been married 5 years and given birth to one child. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. Next door is Edith's father, Hiram Beecher, with his wife Etta and son William.

5. Newspaper: Daily News: "W. J. Jacobs and sons William and Harry, of Shenandoah, are the guests of Mr. And Mrs. Lewis Hilbert, of Third and Chestnut streets.", 9 May 1904, Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ¹⁰

6. Newspaper: The Daily News: "George HIlbert, of Howells, Neb., and sister, Mrs. Christ Gulong, of Pottsville, spent Saturday visiting a brother, Lewis HIlbert, of Third and Chestnut streets.", 22 Aug 1904, Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ¹¹

7. Newspaper: Mount Carmel Item: Large Sulphur Diamond, 2 Mar 1907, Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ¹² Lewis J. Hilbert, of Third and Chestnut streets, is the proud possessor of a sulphur diamond which measures forty-six and one half square inches. It is less than one eight of an inch thick. The diamond is one of the largest ever secured in the mines, and Mr. Hilbert is exhibiting it to numbers of friends.

8. Census in 1910 in Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ¹³ The 1910 census recorded renting a home at 306 E. Seventh Street: Lewis Helbert, miner, 40, with wife Edith, 33; Ruth E., 13; Grace, 9; Lewis, 8; John, 7; Elsie, 3; and Nellie, 5 months. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. Lewis and Edith were married for 15 years and she had birthed 6 children by 1910, all alive that year. Next door at 304 E. Seventh Street was Edith's sister, Sadie Blew, with her husband.

9. Newspaper: Mount Carmel Item: Lewis Hilbert and family, 306 east Seventh street, left this morning for California where he will farm a large tract of land that he has purchased. Mr. Hilbert was a resident of Mount Carmel for 15 years., 12 May 1910, Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ¹⁴

10. Newspaper: Mount Carmel Item: Lewis J. Hilbert, with eight adults and three children, left this morning for California, where they will join the party that recently went from this place. Our townsmen will engage in farming or ranching, having taken out homesteads., 17 May 1910, Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ¹⁵

11. Census in 1920 in Visalia, Tulare, CA. ¹⁶ Hiram Beecher, age 76, widowed, is living in his daughter's household in the 1920 Census in Visalia Township, Tulare County, CA. The daughter, Edith, age 46, is married to Lewis Hilbert, 48. Living with them is son Lewis, 16; John S. 14; Elsia, 12; Nellie, 9; James, 8; Marg, 2 months. James and Marg were born in California, and everyone else in Pennsylvania.

12. Obituary: Visalia Times-Delta: obituary of Lewis J. HIlbert on 24 Dec 1928 in Visalia, Tulare, CA. ¹⁷ -----
LEWIS J. HILBERT DIED LAST NIGHT IN COUNTY HOSPITAL
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Lewis Jay Hilbert of this city, an employe of the Central California Gas company for the past 17 years, died in the Tulare county hospital last evening after a six weeks' illness with influenza. Deceased, aged 56 years, was a native cf Pennsylvania and had resided in this city for the past 18 years. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Edith Hilbert, and the following-named children: Mrs. George Rogers. Visalia: Mrs. Hubert Moore, Vallejo: Lewis Hilbert, John Hilbert. Nellie Hil-Urt. James Hubert. Marjorie Hilbert and Mrs. Tom Davis of Visalia; and one sister, Mrs. Emma Gulong of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Funeral services will be conducted fiom Hadley and Locey's parlors at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Rev. J. A Johnson in charge. Interment will be in the city cemetery.

Lewis married Edith Beecher, daughter of Hiram Beecher and Henrietta Jacobs, on 3 Sep 1894 in , Schuylkill, PA.¹ (Edith Beecher was born on 20 Oct 1873 in Shenandoah, Schuylkill, PA,^{1 16 18} died on 16 Mar 1931 in Visalia, Tulare, CA ^{18 19} and was buried in Visalia: Visalia Cemetery, Tulare, CA ¹⁸.)