“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

D. W. GILBERT, M.D., of Dallas county, was born in Oktibbeha county, 
Mississippi, January 31, 1854, a son of John W. and Sallie (Broughton) Gilbert.  
The father was born near DeKalb, Georgia, and when a young man he went to 
Mississippi and settled in Oktibbeha county, where he accumulated considerable 
property.  He lost heavily by the war, and always made his home in Mississippi, 
where he died, in 1881, at the age of eighty-one years.  Our subject’s mother 
also died in Oktibbeha county, in 1877, at the age of sixty-seven years.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Gilbert were the parents of eleven children, as follows:  Jackson Marion is a 
physician residing in Lewisville, Denton county, Texas; Franklin Monroe, also a 
physician, resides in Hood county; the two daughters, twins, died in infancy; John 
Wesley died in 1883, after reaching maturity; Allen Broughton was killed at 
Canton, Mississippi, in the Confederate army; Laurania Ann, the widow of D. W. 
Price, resides in Dallas county; Thomas B., a farmer by occupation, resides in 
Comanche county, Texas; Zachariah Taylor died in Louisiana in 1882, leaving a 
family; Henry Clay is a physician of Smithfield, Tarrant county, and D. W. our 
subject.

The latter was reared in his native county to the age of twenty years, after which 
he came to Texas, in company with a friend, and located in Grapevine, Tarrant 
county, in January, 1874.  He began reading medicine under his brother, Dr. F. 
M. Gilbert, in that city, in 1876, and took a course of lectures in 1879-‘80-’81 at 
the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, graduating in March, 1881.  Mr. Gilbert 
located and began practice near Grapevine, Tarrant county, where he continued 
until 1884, and in that year he moved to where he now lives, near Sowers, Dallas 
county.  He formed a partnership for one year with Dr. T. B. Dorris, and one year 
later with Dr. A. B. Greg, but has practiced mostly alone.  The Doctor is devoted 
exclusively to his profession, following it assiduously and successfully.  His 
practice embraces all branches of the profession, and extends over a 
considerable scope of country.  On locating where he now lives he purchased a 
small farm, which he has in a good state of cultivation, and on which he has a 
neat residence.

The Doctor was married in April, 1882, to Miss Marietta Boardman, a native of 
Dallas county, and a daughter of J. R. Boardman, an early settler of Grapevine 
Prairie.  She died in 1885, leaving one child, Taylor Clyde.  Mr. Gilbert was 
married a second time, in September, 1886, to Mrs. Fannie Willis Roberts, a 
daughter of John W. Trigg, of Tarrant county.  The Doctor takes considerable 
interest in matters relating to his locality, and lends a helping hand to everything 
for its advancement.  He is a member of the Farmers’ Alliance, and is actively 
identified with the affairs of that order.

Submitted by: L. Pingel