We surely are cousins of some kind; my connection to these families:
Grandfather-William C. Gilbert (George Washington Gilbert)
Grandmother-Lena Ruark Gilbert (Emma Malcom-John Thomas Malcom-James Robinson Malcom-George W.Malcom-James Malcom) and Charles Haseltine Ruark (George Marcellus Ruark-Berry Anderson Ruark-Lemuel C. Ruark)
Other Morgan County families related by marriage to these lines are Crawford, Carey, Peters, Phillips, Hogan.