8CA.  Lou Gilbert was born probably in Michigan on Sunday, December 30, 1888, and died in 1947. Eva Campbell was born _____, and died _____. They were married _____. She took the name Eva Gilbert. He is the son of Herman Leroy and Myrtle (Westcott) Gilbert. They had no children.

Lou Gilbert
Lou and Eva lived in Muskegon, Michigan. He worked in a foundry, she in a dry cleaners. He spoke with a stutter. She had three children by her first marriage in Missouri. In later years, one of them, "Riva", sought out her mother, whom she said just walked out on her children.

The Social Security Death Records have only one entry for an Eva Gilbert who received her S.S. card in Michigan. It gives her birthday as March 6, 1898, and death date as February, 1980, still residing in Michigan. This S.S.N. is 384-46-0404.




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