From The Daily News, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
August 30, 1941

103 ARE PRESENT AT
GILLILAND REUNION
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   The Gilliland family staged its fifth annual reunion recently at Idlewild Park, Ligonier, with 103 persons on hand. The picnic dinner was preceded by a business meeting and a program.
   David Grace, of Altoona, was elected president; George Stillet Sr., of Clairton, vice president, and H. F. Gilliland, of West Elizabeth, was renamed secretary-treasurer. Officers are to serve a three-year term.
   Another reunion is to be held at Idlewild on the fourth Sunday of August, 1942. Frank P. Stouffer, retiring president, read a sketch of the Gilliland descendants. Oldest member on hand was Mrs. Belle Grove, 87, of Orbisonia, while the youngest was 16-month-old Annette Louise Long, of Mount Union.
   West Elizabeth persons attending were Mr. and Mrs. David Gilliland and daughter, Norma, Josephine Gilliland, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gilliland, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bietzel, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stouffer and Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Gilliland and daughter Jean.
   From Clarion and Wilson were Mrs. Nannie Stiley, Mrs. John Shultz, Mercedes, Billy and Elsie Shultz, Gertrude Kaufman, Mr. and Mrs. George Stillet and son, Walter, Peggy Gemmell, Mary Battie, George W. Stilley, Jr. Also on hand were Mr. and Mrs. George Stillet and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Stillet, of Floreffe; Mrs. Mary E. Schaner, of Willock; Mr. and Mrs. William Shultz, of Glassport; Mrs. Byron Steinbaugh and son Byron Jr., of Charleroi; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Humes, Georgia Humes and Gloria Messner, of Finleyville.
   Others present were Ray Bands and Jack Bands, of Dundock, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd E. Main, of Clarksburg, W. Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Enoch K. Gilliland, of Transfer, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Gilliland, of Mercer; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adams and daughter, Betty, of Youngwood; Mrs. B. M. Loar, of Mt. Pleasant; Mr. and Mrs. William E. Gifford and Mr. and Mrs. James S. Gifford of Munhall.
   Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gilliland and daughter, Gladys, of Huntingdon; Mrs. Grove of Orbisonia; Mr. and Mrs. H. Long and daughter, Mrs. Ray Long and son, Kenneth; Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Gilliland, of Mount Union; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Peterson, Bobby and Billie Peterson, of Homer City.
   Mrs. Mae Grace, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Clark, Dean, Delbert and Harvey Clark; Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Van Ormer, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Grace, Betty Mills, Dorothy Clark and Orville Fluke, all of Altoona.
   Mrs. Mary Turbett, Ralph Snyder, John Peterson, Maxine Tietz, Miss Edith Grove, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gilliland and children Ned and Peggy, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Peterson and son, William, Mrs. C. E. Romak and Mary Lambert, all of 
Pittsburgh.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010