This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gilbert Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/1657 Message Board Post: I am writing a biographical chapter for a new book on Southern Civil War correspondents. I am trying to find biographical information (including a date of death) on R. R. Gilbert--full name Rennessaier Reed Gilbert. He wrote for the Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph during the war and Texas Siftings (and perhaps others) after the war. Genealogical searches show him to have lived in Palestine in 1876 and 1880, but since the 1890 census burned and he falls through the cracks of death records, I cannot locate a date of death. His wife is listed as a widow living in Austin by 1900. I am looking for a date of death, personal papers, etc. Anything that sheds further light on him as a person. Many thanks for any help.