The Portsmouth Times
Portsmouth, Ohio
29 March, 1932

LOCAL GROCER
DIES SUDDENLY
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E. C. Gilliland Passes Away
From Cerebral
Hemorrhage.

    Earl Cranston Gilliland, a member of the retail grocery firm of Gilliland and Powell, Sixth and Broadway streets, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage about 2:30 p.m. Monday and it ended in his death before he could be removed to Portsmouth General hospital. The McKenzie ambulance was called and Mr. Gilliland was taken to the hospital, but died en route.
    He had been on Gay street on a business errand and was stricken when near Eleventh street. Feeling the attack coming on he asked a resident in that section to call a physician. He died before this could be done. Coroner Virgil Fowler was notified and attributed the man’s death to cerebral hemorrhage. Relatives said Tuesday that Mr. Gilliland had not been in his usual good health for several weeks, but he was able to look after his business.
    He was born Nov. 20, 1869, in Jackson county, Ohio, and had been a resident of Portsmouth eight years. He is survived by his widow Mrs. Delia Parks Gilliland and three children: Harry of Oak Hill, O., Mrs. Blanche Powell of 2112 Seventh street and Mrs. Maud Burton of 1120 Buckley avenue, Sciotoville. He is also survived by two brothers: Samuel and Oscar of Oak Hill, route 2, four grandchildren and an aged aunt, Mrs. Fannie Baker of Oak Hill, route 2. Mr. Gilliland was a member of the local Aerie of Eagles and of the Scioto county grange.
    Funeral services will be held in the New church near Minford Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. and will be in charge of Rev. Maddox of Stockdale. Interment will follow in the Bennett cemetery near Minford under the direction of Undertaker J. L. Richards.

-contributed by Paul W. Gilliland and transcribed by Kate Maynard, 2013