Kate’s notes: Inez Gilliland (1878-1958) most certainly had a notable career as a nurse. As a Red Cross nurse she served in Europe during World War I and upon her return held important positions in her profession, including a term as the orthopedic nurse for the state board of health during a time when polio afflicted many young children. 

Fort Wayne News and Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana
10 October, 1918

RED CROSS NOTES
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VAN WERT, O., Oct 10. – Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Gilliland, South avenue and Elm street, have received a letter from their daughter, Miss Inez, who is a Red Cross nurse in France. The letter was written at the close of her first day on actual duty and says in part: “I am in a hospital with ‘our boys’ and it certainly is a wonderful place. I am glad every minute that I came and only regret that I did not come sooner. I am sure that if you knew just how much our nurses are needed and could see how brave our boys are in their suffering you would feel that way, too. I have heard so much of the courage of our boys over here, that is the way the French speak of it.”

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The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review
New York, NY
July, 1919

    Miss Inez Gilliland, a Red Cross nurse and native of Van Wert, Ohio, stationed at Cupria*, Serbia, has been decorated with the order of Saint Sova for her work among refugees.

*Cuprya. Two American physicians, captains John Voor and Thomas Lowe and three nurses, Kathryn Williams, Inez Gilliland and Mary Snow, established a hospital and a dispensary at Cuprya.

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Fort Wayne News and Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana
31 January, 1919

RED CROSS NOTES
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VAN WERT, O., Jan. 31. -- Miss Inez Gilliland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Gilliland, South avenue, who went to France as a Red Cross nurse several months ago, and was later transferred to Rome, has written her parents that she will soon leave for Serbia, where her work of mercy will be continued. The letter says in part: “It seems when Serbia was overrun by the Huns the men never had their wounds cared for. It is said that the bullets are still in many of them and there is much need of operating and medical cases as well as that we are going up to start hospitals all through the Balkan states, namely, Rumania, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia.”

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Hamilton Evening Journal
Hamilton, Ohio
26 August, 1926

ORTHOPEDIC NURSE IN
COUNTY THURSDAY

    Miss Inez Gilliland, orthopedic nurse of the state department of health, was a visitor at the children’s camp at Camp Campbell Gard Thursday. She also was in conference Thursday morning with nurses at the office of Dr. C. J. Baldridge, county health commissioner.

-transcriptions by Kate Maynard, 2013