MRS. JOHN A. TRAINER

Mrs. John A. Trainer, 79, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. H. B. Marshall, at Burnsville, West Virginia on Monday, March 22, 1948.

She was born December 25, 1868 in Florence, Nebraska, the daughter of Peter and Mattie Gilbertson. On October 15th, 1891 she was married to John Allan Trainer, a native of Cairo, West Virginia, who preceded her in death. They came to Cairo soon after their marriage and had lived there for the past fifty years.

At the age of 18 she united with the Lutheran Church at Orum, Nebraska, and upon coming to Cairo she became a member of the W.S.C.S. of the Methodist Church. She was a charter member of the Cairo Chapter of the Eastern Star.

Survivors are two brothers, Fred Gilbertson, Omaha, Nebraska and Ed Gilbertson, Lynwood, California and two sisters, Mrs. Chas. T. Daffer, Omaha Nebraska and Mrs. H. B. Marshall of Burnsville, West Virginia.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, March 24, at 2 p.m. at Cairo in the Methodist church, and burial in the Cairo I.O.O.F. cemetery.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

Notes: She is the daughter of Peter and Mathea “Mattie” Nilsdatter Gran Gilbertson who are buried in the Blair, Nebraska Cemetery. No burial records were located in Cairo, West Virginia.

Name: Charlotte Trainer
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Cairo, Grant Magisterial District, Ritchie, West Virginia, United States
Age: 71
Marital Status: Married
Race: White Birth Year (Estimated): 1869
Birthplace: Nebraska
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Citing this Record "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7ZY-M7H : 28 July 2019), Charlotte Trainer in household of John Trainer, Cairo, Grant Magisterial District, Ritchie, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 43-5, sheet 4B, line 72, family 92, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4445. FindaGrave #213086916