Rachel Biggs ALBRIGHT1,1,2

12th Dec 18281 - 23rd Dec 18941

Life History

12th Dec 1828	Born in Bedford, Bedford, Tennessee.1
18th Dec 1855	Married Mabel GILBERT in Bonham, Fannin, Texas.1,1,2
1st Mar 1870	Death of Mabel GILBERT in Cooke County, Texas.3,1
23rd Dec 1894	Died in Gainesville, Cooke, Texas.1
after 23rd Dec 1894	Buried in Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, Division 3, lot 10.1

Notes

Texas, Marriage Index, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011
Mabel Gilbert
Marriage 18 Dec 1855 Fannin, Texas, USA
Spouse Rachel Freeman
Source Texas Marriages, 1851-1900

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Rachel Gibbs Allbright Gilbert
Birth Dec 12, 1828 Bedford, Bedford County, Tennessee, USA
Death Dec 23, 1894 Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, USA

age 67, Daughter of Jacob Allbright, Sara Nease

Rachel was the second wife and widow of prominent North Texas pioneer Mabel Gilbert.

Rachel, a twenty-eight-year old widow with one child, married Gilbert--who was thirty-one years her senior--in Grayson County on Dec. 18, 1855 who had eleven children from his first wife. After their marriage they moved to what would become Wichita County. There, Rachel gave birth to the first Angelo baby born in Wichita County.

When Mabel died of pneumonia in early 1870, Rachel moved her family to a farm south of Gainesville. A short time later, she gave birth to Mabel's twenty-first child, a girl named Mabel.

In her later years, Rachel Gilbert was know as "Grandma Gilbert."

Spouses:
Abner M Freeman (1830 - 1852)
Mabel Gilbert (1797 - 1870)

Children:
Cass Louis Gilbert (1857 - 1943)
Hettie Gilbert Jones (1860 - 1943)
Davis Beauregard Gilbert (1862 - 1934)
Andrew Jackson Gilbert (1863 - 1924)
Emily Gilbert Reinhardt (1865 - 1932)

Burial Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, Division 3, lot 10

Created by sue Dec 31, 2012
-- Find A Grave Memorial #102875895, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102875895
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Sources

1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
2. Texas, Marriage Index, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011
3. 1870 Federal Census, Cooke County, Texas
- 1 June, Precinct 1, Mortality Schedule, p 72