From The Clearfield Progress (Clearfield, Pennsylvania)
August 19, 1942 

   “Elizabeth, My Daughter,” by Ann Ritner, published in 1940 by the M. S. Mill Comapny, Inc., may be just another novel to young Clearfieldians, but to the older generation the dedication, “To my father, John Lawrence Gilliland,” will mean something.
   Thirty or 35 years ago John Lawrence Gilliland packed his possessions and moved his wife and family from Clearfield to Denver, Colo. During the years that he lived on West Market street he was well known through his association with the County National Bank, where he was a teller, and a staunch supporter of the Lutheran church.
   He continues to live in Denver, though his daughters’ mother is dead. One of Ann’s sisters was a missionary in Africa, until the war drove her home. This is Ann’s second book, the first one being, “And Some Had Wine.”

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010

The obituary for Ann's mother is given below.

From The Clearfield Progress, February 17, 1920 

FORMER WELL KNOWN 
RESIDENT DIES IN COLORADO
  
   Deputy Sheriff Frank S. Gilliland received a telegram at noon from his brother John L. Gilliland announcing the death of his wife, which occurred at their home on LaJunta, Colorado, this morning.
   Mrs. Gilliland was a daughter of the late Godfrey Fisher, of Karthaus township and a sister of Henry E. Fisher of Nichols street, and resided in Clearfield for a number of years.
   Some ten or twelve years ago on account of Mrs. Gilliland’s failing health the family located in LaJunta, where Mr. Gilliland has been successully engaged in business ever since.
   The deceased was an earnest Christian woman and a devout member of the Lutheran church. She was ever the tender loving wife and mother and possessed an exceptionally wide circle of admiring friends in this section, who sympathize deeply with her family in their sad bereavment.
   Mrs. Gilliland was about 46 years of age and is survived by her husband, two sons and three daughters.
   She is also survived by one brother and seven sisters, viz.: Henry E. Fisher, of Clearfield; Mrs. William [Heideman], of Alliance, Ohio; Mrs. Anna Burley of Tyrone; Miss Hannah, of Tyrone; Mrs. Robert Waring, of Jefferson City, N. J.; Mrs. Wareham Fleming, of Tyrone; Mrs. B. S. [Dise], of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Edward Manning, of La Junta, Colorado.