Thomas Roy Gilmore

1909 - 1940  (31 years)

• Name	Thomas Roy Gilmore  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	15 Apr 1909	Atwood, Rawlins County, Kansas, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  	Cemetery marker offers only years of birth and death.
  Gender	Male
  Narrative	Quoted from Debra J. Brannan's register report: "Tom Gilmore was a popular cowboy and foreman of the Diamond Bar Ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills of McPherson County. He met his future wife, Marie, when she taught school in McPherson County. Tom and Marie Gilmore did not have children. Marie graduated from South High School (Omaha, NE) as Salutatorian. She joined the WACS in 1942 and served her country during WWII. Following the war, she received a dietician degree from Iowa State University. Marie (Miller) Gilmore married (2) Cheyenne, Wyoming, June 1949 John Wilson, a childhood friend from Newell, Iowa. John and Marie (Miller) (Gilmore) moved to Blue Earth, Minnesota, where he was a farmer and she worked as a registered dietician."  [1]
  Died	7 May 1940	North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Obituary	9 May 1940	North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA   [3]
  	North Platte Daily Bulletin: Gilmore Rites To be Friday Funeral services for Thomas Roy Gilmore, 31, of Paxton who died Tuesday night at a local hospital, will be held at 2 p.m.(CST) Friday from the local Methodist church. Rev. B. Johansen will officiate and burial will be in the North Platte cemetery. Mr. Gilmore was born April 15, 1909 at Atwood, Kan., and lived there until he was three years old. From Atwood he moved to a farm 27 miles north of Paxton where he spent the rest of his life. Nov 23, 1934 he married Marie Miller of Omaha. Surviving are his wife, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Gilmore of Thune, four sisters, Miss Thelma Gilmore and Mrs. Effie Lawyer of North platte, Mrs. Alice Dillion [sic] of Sarben and Mrs. Lucy Guthard of Cole Camp, Miss. [sic, Missouri], and four brothers, George of Hastings, Marion of Sarben, Ben of Eklutha, Alaska and Billy of Ashton, Idaho. The body will lie in state at the Adams funeral home until noon Friday when it will be taken to the church.
  Buried	North Platte Cemetery, North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I364	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   [4]
  Family ID	F38	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie Miller,   b. 13 Mar 1913, Albert City, Buena Vista County, Iowa, USA ,   d. Jan 2015, Blue Earth, Minnesota, USA  (Age 101 years)
  Married	23 Nov 1934	Julesburg, Sedgwick County, Colorado, USA   [1, 3]
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2016
  Family ID	F132	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S588] Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 8 April 2016), memorial 48934347, 28 February 2010, by David Goltry for Thomas R. Gilmore (1909-1940), citing North Platte Cemetery (North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA). Digital image of marker. [S729] "Gilmore Rites To Be Friday," North Platte Daily Bulletin (North Platte, Neb.), 9 May 1940, p. 8, col. 1; microfilm 071 N8lt, no. 11, 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.