Person:Gilbert Meyer (1)

Watchers
m. 23 Nov 1893
  1. Gilbert Hubert MEYER1895 - 1962
  2. Mathew P. MEYER1897 - 1976
  3. Anna MEYER1899 - Abt 1960
  4. Gertrude MEYER1901 - Abt 1960
  5. Rudolph Meyer1902 - 1991
  6. Jacot MEYER1904 - 1966
  7. Nicholas Charles MEYER1906 - 1996
  8. Margaret MEYER1908 - Abt 1960
  9. Frank MEYER1909 - 1993
  10. Alvis Lawrence MEYER1910 - 1981
  11. Michael Christopher MEYER1913 - Abt 2000
  12. Leo MEYER1914 - 1980
  13. Suzanna Leona Meyer1917 - Abt 2000
  14. Agnes Elizabeth MEYER1919 - 1927
m. 18 Jun 1925
Facts and Events
Name Gilbert Hubert MEYER
Gender Male
Birth? 22 Apr 1895 La Mars Township, Richland, North Dakota, USA
Marriage 18 Jun 1925 Wahpeton,Rheinland,North Dakota,USAto Adeline Marie KREBS
Death? 14 Jul 1962 Hankinson, Richland, North Dakota, USA
Burial? 17 Jul 1962 Hankinson, Richland, North Dakota, USA
    Birth information was verified by the 1900 Census Richland County. Gilbert

served in WW1, honorably discharged. He enjoyed playing the fiddle at house parties. He loved to dance, especially polka. He and his sister Gertrude won a polka dance contest. He worked as a farm labor until 1940. Then moved to Hankinson and worked as a janitor at St.Phillips Catholic Church. He also was in charge of keeping the Church cemetery prim and proper. After that, he began working for the Soo Line Railroad in the coal shute, shoveling coal into trains. Then as a section laborer until retirement in 1960. He died two years later, July 14, 1962. He was found by his wife, Adeline. She called him to come in to eat and he didn't answer her. He was behind the garage cutting wood and that is where he died of a massive heart attack.

References
  1.   State Of Minnesota,Hennepin County. Marriage Certificate.