Josiah Ward Gilbert

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Josiah Ward can be found in the 1850 U.S. Federal Census in Illinois Winebago Co. Rockton. He is listed on image #26. This number is the one that will appear at the bottom of the web page. As in 1 through 45 image # 26. In this census Josiah is 31, Catherine is 29, Sarah is 9, George is 6, Orlando is 3, Almira is 5/12 of a year old. Marcellus, Josiah's brother is also living here and he is 26 years old. Josiah was born in Conn. Catherine was born in N.Y. Sarah was born in Penn. George was born in Ohio as was Marcellus. Orlando and Almira were born in Ill.
In 1860 Josiah Ward is listed in the 1860 U.S. Federal Census in Cass Co. South Bend Nebraska. By this time Emma Amilia, William, Cyntha, James and Theda are added to the family. Emma, William,and Cyntha were born in Ill. James and Theda were born in Nebraska.
Josiah Ward died on April 17, 1865 in Cass Co. Nebraska.

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Gilbert Family History
1850s Saunders county, Nebraska
Josiah Ward and Catherine (Pettie) Gilbert came to Nebraska Territory to settle in Cass County in 1859 in Glendale Precinct. They bought 40 acres in South Bend Precinct in S-17 T-12 R-10 in November, 1861. J.W. died in April, 1865, and Catherine homesteaded in Saunders County in May, 1865 on S-34 T-14 R-9, north of Ashland near the homestead of her daughter and her husband, Sarah E. (Gilbert) and John Thomas Cadwell.
Josiah Ward Gilbert was born 8 November 1814 in Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and was married 4 February 1841 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania to Catherine Pettit, born 22 September 1820, Castile, Genesee County, New York to Noah and Betsey (Tibbets) Pettit. The first of their ten children was Sarah Elizabeth Gilbert who was born 12 December 1841 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania and who married in 1861 in Cass County, to John Thomas Cadwell. Their other children were: George Ed., born in Ohio, 1843; Henry H., 1845-46; Orlando, 1847; Almira, 1850 (died 1866); Emma, 1852; William W., 1854; and Cynthia, 1858. All were born in Illinois, and James F, 1861, and Theda, 1858 were born in Nebraska.
All the children were married in Nebraska. In Saunders County George married Evalene Landreth, 1872; Orlando married Ellen Cox, 1871; Emma married George Jenks, 1868; Theda married Edward David in 1880's; William W. married Minnie Pounds in Webster County, 1885; Cynthia and William M. Sisco tied the knot in Gage County, 1883; and James Frank and Jennie H. were married in 1886 in Gage County.
Catherine managed and prospered on her 80 acres with the help of her sons who were farmers and teamsters. Orlando later became a carpenter. Later, William and Frank were barbers, and later still, William became a breeder and racer of trotters. Catherine was married the second time to Joseph R. Freeman in 1870 whom she outlived.
Catherine mortgaged her farm in Saunders in April, 1881, and moved to Red Cloud, Webster County, where she bought two town lots. She had reached the age of 66y 11m 18d when she died on 4 September 1887 and was buried in the Red Cloud cemetery. She was survived by sons, George, Orlando, William, Frank and daughters, Emma Jenks, Cynthia Sisco, and Theda Davis, and 26 grandchildren whose numerous progeny today, grace the confines of Saunders County and many other parts of Nebraska. Submitted by Mary Anders

Josiah married Catherine Pettit on 4 Feb 1841 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. (Catherine Pettit was born on 22 Sep 1820 in Castile, Genesee County, New York, died on 4 Sep 1887 in Red Cloud, Webster County, Nebraska and was buried in Red Cloud Cemetery.)

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