Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-06-09

FRED e, GILBERT.

Fred Emerson Gilbert, Sc, died at $50
o'clock this morning in the home of Rev.
Daniel Mcintyre, the Congregational
minister in Townshend, where he room
ed. Mr.. Gilbert had not been as well
as usual the past few months and gave
up his school in Townshend recently.
lie was able to walk between his room
and boarding place until Tuesday night.
Yesterday morning he suffered from "A
serious and sudden attack OF heart
trouble. DR.. A. |. Miller was called from
Brattleboro to consult with DR.. f. l..
Osgood Mr.. Gllberts brother, w. A.
Gilbert, and the latters wife and a
nurse went to Townshend Immediately
The doctors held out little hope of re-
covery at that time, but he remained in
about the same condition until $50 this
morning. The end occurred very sud
denly. He was conscious at all times
throughout his last illness.
Mr.. Gilbert was i'll with a severe at
tack of rheumatic fever while living i'm
Guilford over ~ years ago. This left
him with a valvular heart weakness from
which he had suffered throughout all
these years. He was born in East Put
ney November II, 1874 the youngest of
the six children of James NJ. and Helen
(Angier) Gilbert. lie attended school
i'm his native town until the family
moved to Guiford i'm 1887. His mother
died there from pneumonia December 9,
1885, The following year he went with
his sister to Sioux City, Iowa, where a
brother and an uncle lived. He attend
ed the high school there year and then
came back to Putney and worked with
his father in manufacturing brush
handles and as clerk in the Williams
store. Afterward he came to Brattleboro
attended the high school and graduated
in the class of 1890. He wrote the i,y
ode and was one of the class officers
He went to Mount Hermon as student
a short time, but his heart trouble COM
PEELED him to give up study. He hoped
to make the ministry his life work and
with this purpose in view studied in the
Croser theological seminary near Phila-
dephia, but the work was too severe a
tax upon his heart and after being in
the hospital several weeks he was COM
PEELED to give up his course of study.
He taught school in Gulford in VIII
Evansville, three years in the village
school in Newfane and the past four
years in the village school in Towns
bend. He had been superintendent of
schools in the latter town the past two
years.
While in Putney, Mr.. Gilbert united
with the Baptist church. He had al
ways taken an active part in church.
Sunday school and Christian Endeavor
affairs. He possessed a musical TEMPER
ament and sang frequently in church
choirs and on various occasions outside
church work. For 10 years he had spent
his summer vacations in camp at Sun
set lake and gained from the outdoor
life sufficient strength to carry him
through his duties as teacher in the
winter season. Last summer he built a
cottage at the lake, finishing it Just as
the season closed and he looked for
ward with more than usual anticipation
of pleasure to the coming season at the
lake.
Mr.. Gilbert leaves his father. James
NJ. Gilbert of Townshend, who is en-
gagged in the manufacture of brush
handles. one sister, Helen A. wife of
Howard p, Quincy of Sioux City, Iowa.
two brothers, George l.. Gilbert. in the
tailoring business in Rutland, and Wal
ter y. Gilbert, associate editor of The
Phoenix.
Mr., Gilbert was young man of Chris
tian character who held the respect and
esteem of all who knew him. He pos
sessed high ideals and was ambitious to
make his life one of usefulness and SER
vice, but he was handicapped in his ac-
tivities from childhood by his physical
weakness. Despite his amiction he was
bright and CHEEKY of disposition met his
difficulties coura geously, and carried on
the work of a school teacher with unusual
success The record of his life and ac-
tions is an honorable one which will
always be a blessed memory to those near
and lear to him.
The funeral viii be held at II o'clock
Sunday in the Baptist church in Towns
bend. in place of the regular church SER
vices. Rev. Joseph McKeau and Rev
Daniel Mcintyre will oficate. The
burial will be beside his mother and two
brothers, Charles a. and James NJ, in
the family lot in East Putney.