Effie Vianna Gilmore

1901 - 1987  (86 years)

• Name	Effie Vianna Gilmore
  Born	2 Jan 1901	Marion County, Illinois, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Narrative	Quoted from Debra J. Brannon's register report: Effie was a schoolteacher, genealogist, historian, and "practical nurse," who graduated from Curtis [Nebraska] Normal College. She was an accomplished Bridge player. Effie taught school in the Nebraska Sandhills in McPherson County prior to her marriage to Claude Lawyer. Claude was a ranch foreman and retired as a conductor for the Union Pacific Railroad in North Platte in 1966. Claude and Effie were active in the Masonic organizations: Claude was a Nebraska York Rite Mason and member of Platte Valley Lodge, AF&AM. Effie was a member of the Order of Eastern Star and an officer and charter member of the Social Order of Beauceant. Claude and Effie were members of First United Methodist Church and Effie served as president of her UMW circle. Effie received North Platte?s ?Good Neighbor Award? and devoted endless hours of service to her community, church and family. Claude and Effie (Gilmore) Lawyer had one child."  [2]
  Obituary	After 2 Jan 1987  [3, 4]
  	North Platte Telegraph Effie V. Lawyer Effie V. Lawyer, 86, of 420 W. Fourth, died Sunday at a North Platte nursing home. She was born Jan. 2, 1901, at Centralia, Ill., to Thomas M. and Edith Holcomb Gilmore. She moved at an early age with her family to Atwood, Kan., and in 1912, the family moved to a homestead in McPherson County under the Kincaid Act. Upon completing her education, she taught the county's District 21 school. She married Claude D. Lawyer Dec. 18, 1923, and they farmed in McPherson County and ran the store at Thune until 1927 when they moved to North Platte. She was active in community affairs and was the recipient of the Good Neighbors Service Award. She was the author of a history of Valyrang School District 15 and contributed many historical articles to the McPherson County Historical Book published in 1986. Mrs. Lawyer was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Signet Chapter 55 Order of Eastern Star, Ladies Auxiliary to Union Pacific Old-timers No. 8 and charter member of the Social Order of the Beauceant Assembly no. 177. Survivors include a daughter, Helen (Mrs. Robert) Brannan of North Platte; two brothers, Ben Gilmore of Cheyenne, Wyo. and Bill Gilmore of North Hilands, Calif.; a sister, Thelma (Mrs. Glen) Crampton of Lancaster, Calif.; and one granddaughter. She was preceded in death by her husband on March 16, 1973, three sisters and four brothers. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Charles Richardson officiating. Burial will be in the North Platte Cemetery.
  Died	11 Oct 1987	North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA   [2, 3, 4]
  Buried	North Platte Cemetery, North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I319	Gilmore-Donald
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2016

  
  

  Father	Thomas Melvin Gilmore,   b. 15 Jun 1875, Smith County, Kansas, USA ,   d. 12 Feb 1953, North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Edith Addie Holcomb,   b. 14 Apr 1878, Northboro, Page County, Iowa, USA ,   d. Feb 1975, North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA  (Age 96 years)
  Married	28 Mar 1900	Marion County, Illinois, USA   [5]
  Family ID	F38	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Claude Daniel Lawyer,   b. 18 November ????, Cloud County, Kansas, USA ,   d. 16 Mar 1973, North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA
  Married	18 Dec 1923	Atwood, Rawlins County, Kansas, USA   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Helen Maxine Lawyer, DNA,   b. 18 Jul 1929, North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2016
  Family ID	F113	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S285] "Centralia, Illinois, Births before 1910," database, Welcome to Marion County GenWeb (http://marion.illinoisgenweb.org/ : accessed 19 July 2015), entry for birth of Effie Vianna Gilmore, 2 January 1901; citing records of the Marion County Courthouse, Salem, Ill. . [S287] Debra J. Brannon (djbrnnn@aol.com), "Gilmore Ancestry of Thomas Melvin Gilmore (1875-1952)," register report from genealogical software, containing no sources. Sent from Ms. Brannon to Janis Walker Gilmore as an email attachment, June 2015. Ms. Brannon is a direct descendant of Thomas M. Gilmore and Edith Holcomb through their daughter Effie Vianna Gilmore. [S583] Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 7 April 2016), memorial 63273816, 24 December 2010, by David Goltry for Effie Vianna Gilmore Lawyer (1901-1987), citing North Platte Cemetery (North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA). Digital image of marker and digital image of obituary [no newspaper citation]. [S726] "Obituaries: Effie V. Lawyer," North Platte Telegraph (North Platte, Neb.), 22 February 1952, p. 8, col. 2; microfilm 071 N8lt, no. 38, Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln. [S1584] "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 17 June 2013), Marion County, [1900]: 87, for Thomas N. Gilmore-Edith Holcomb, 28 March 1900; FHL film no. 965,419; citing original records of Marion County, Salem. [S258] Debra J. Brannan Mullendore (djbrnnn@aol.com) to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 20 June 2015, subject ?Re: Eddie Gilmore?; giving her direct line of descent from Thomas Gilmore and Mary Reed.