Gilbert opened her medical practice at 938 Dumesnil Street, Louisville and remained listed in national physician registries at this address through 1902. In 1896, Gilbert furthered her education at Howard University in Washington, D. C., receiving her Doctor of Medicine degree upon her graduation the following year. While in the capital, she met Bernard Orange "B. O." Wilkerson, whom she married on June 1, 1897 in New York City. Returning to Louisville, Gilbert worked as an assistant to the obstetrics professor of the Medical Department at State University and was the superintendent of the Red Cross Sanitarium of Louisville. She had three children: B. O. Jr., Artishia Garcia Jr., and a male infant who was two weeks old at the time of her death. Death and legacy Gilbert died two weeks after having given birth to her youngest child and was buried on April 2, 1904, in a service which was widely attended by family, friends, and business colleagues. References Citations Bibliography 1868 births 1904 deaths People from Manchester, Kentucky 19th-century American educators 19th-century American physicians 20th-century American physicians African-American educators Physicians from Kentucky Simmons College of Kentucky alumni Howard University alumni Physicians from Louisville, Kentucky Kentucky women in health professions Kentucky women in education 20th-century American women physicians 19th-century American women physicians 19th-century American women educators 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American physicians