Nellie (Baker) Jilbert


 My great Aunt Nellie (Baker) Jilbert and her husband, whose name is unknown.
Nellie was the youngest of the Baker daughters.
Her birth date is unknown, but it is likely some time in the early 1900s.
Her older sister, Nora Belle (Baker) Saunders,
was my grandfather Delbert Saunders's mother.
There is no date on the photo.


A small, photo-booth-style of my Great Aunt Nellie.
There is no date on the photo.
Nellie had one son whose name was Jake (nicknamed Jakey).
Jakey married a woman named Rose.
Together they lived in Tracy, raising their two children, Beverly and Richard.


 Great Aunt Nellie with her granddaughter,
Beverly Jilbert, daughter of Jakey and Rose Jilbert.
Also in the photo is my father, George Marion Saunders.
A note on the back of the photo says is was taken in Tracy, California.
From the white picket fence, my father remembers that
this was Jakey's and Rose's front yard.
He and Beverly I spend played together there often.

The photo names the other two girls as Joyce and Diane Calhoun,
though we don't know who these girls might be.
My father remembers Aunt Nellie, but she was not married when he was a child.
He cannot recall whether she was widowed or divorced at the time.


Great Aunt Nellie, with a fish.
The back of the photo is stamped with a July 27, 1937 date,
processed by Bear Photo Services.