8C.  Herman Leroy Gilbert was born in Michigan on Sunday, September 9, 1860, and died in Michigan on December 2, 1898. He was called Roy. He was buried in Winchester Cemetery, Kent County, Michigan. Myrtle Westcott was born about 1869. She was 17 when she married. They were married in Byron Township, Kent County, Michigan, on Thursday, April 8, 1886. She took the name Myrtle Gilbert. He is the son of Truman and Henrietta P. (Robbins) Gilbert. She is the daughter of Lyman D. and Adelia H. (_____) Westcott. They had one child:

Herman Leroy and Myrtle (Westcott) Gilbert and son Lou

After Roy died, Myrtle married George Frank Baker and had two more children: George Frank Baker, Jr. (born about 1903), and Evelyn Adelia Baker (born 1906).

Note on the spelling of "Westcott". Some old records have it spelled "Wescott". Per Mary Lamble, the Westcotts are descended from Stuckely Westcott of Providence Rhode Island. Lyman and his father Dexter, brother William, all moved from Elyria Ohio sometime between 1859 and 1864. They all spell their name with the "T" in the middle. The census taker was the one who spelled it incorrectly.

• Notes and interview of Walter Joshua Gilbert
• Winchester Cemetery tombstones
• Mary Lamble (greatgranddaughter of Myrtle Westcott and George Baker via Evelyn); Sep. 2000, Jan. 2001