Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co. GEORGE G. GILBERT, a native of Spencer County, Ky., was born December 24, 1849, and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Stone) Gilbert, natives respectively of Lincoln and Spencer Counties. Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert's parents were George and Anna (Cochran) Stone. George Stone came from Holland, and settled in Spencer County, Ky., as a teacher of music, but established a powder-mill, the first in Spencer County and probably the first in this century. His father, John Stone, was a soldier, and was killed under Gen. Logan, who afterward fell at the battle of Kanawha River. George G. Gilbert remained on the home farm until seventeen years of age, when he entered Lynnland Institute and Cecilian College, near Elizabethtown, took a scientific course, and a course in Greek, Latin, French and belles lettres; took the junior and senior courses in one, and gained the first prize. He then taught school and read law, and in 1874 began practice in Taylorsville, where he remained eleven years. In 1876 he was elected on the Democratic ticket State senator for Spencer, Shelby and Nelson Counties, and he also served four years as county attorney for Spencer. In 1886 he removed to Shelbyville, and became one of the attorneys for the Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company. In November, 1875, he married Miss Lizzie Hinkle, of Nelson County, and there have been born to this union three children: Marvin, Mary E. and Ralph Waldo. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert are members of the Baptist Church. Gilbert Stone Cochran Logan Hinkle = Lincoln Holland Hardin Shelby Nelson