From The Van Wert Times Bulletin (Van Wert, Ohio) 
September 8, 1930

Marriage of Popular Young People
celebrated at First Methodist
Episcopal Church.
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    A wedding marked by charming informality occurred at the First Methodist Church Sunday morning, at 8:30 o’clock, when Lawrence A. Gilliland, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Gilliland, of South avenue, was wed to Miss Margaret Black, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Black, of North Washington street. The single ring service was read by Rev. C. Marshall Muir, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in the absence of Rev. Earle M. Ellsworth, who is attending the annual conference of the Methodist Church. As the bridal party entered the church, the bride on the arm of her father, preceded by the bride’s maid, Miss Dorothy Ellsworth, Miss Margaret Webber at the organ played “Sweetheart of the Sigma Chi” and during the service “Sweet Mysteries of Life.” The groom was attended by his cousin, Russell L. Gilliland. The bride was lovely in a gown of beige wool lace with burgundy red accessories and carried a Colonial bouquet of American Beauty roses. The bride’s maid dress was of midnight blue transparent velvet ensemble with beige accessories and her corsage bouquet was Ophelia roses. The bride, popular in a wide circle of friends, is a graduate of the Van Wert High school, the School of Commerce of Northwestern University, and is a member of Kappa Delta sorority and Van Wert Chapter, Psi Iota Xi. Mr. Gilliland is a prominent young business man of this town, being a member of the firm of Gilliland & Gekler, is a graduate of Van Wert High school and the Ohio State University and a member of Sigma Chi and Alpha Kappa Psi fraternities. Following a honeymoon trip to Quebec and other points in Canada and to Boston and New York, Mr. and Mrs. Gilliland will be at home after October 1 at 243 North Jefferson street.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010