Kate’s notes:  Dr. Ezekiel E. Gillilan, the father of Edward Gillilan, was another of the noted siblings of a family which included writer Strickland Gillilan, the Rev. John David Gillilan and educator Lewis McClellan Gillilan. Among his other siblings were Mrs. Adeline Gettles of Frankfort, Ohio; Alice Virginia Gillilan and Mrs. Georgia Gillilan Hunter of Jackson, Ohio.

Lancaster Daily Eagle
Lancaster, Ohio
23 August, 1923

DROWNED
________

In Buckeye Lake was Young
Columbus Lad Saturday Afternoon.

   Seized with cramps while swimming in Buckeye Lake early Staurday evening, Edward Gillilan, aged 14, sons of Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Gillilan of Columbus, and well known in Lancaster, was drowned.
   Young Gillilan was spending the week-end at his parents’ cottage at the lake with some other lads. Saturday afternoon the boys went out on the lake in a sailboat. They stopped in the middle of the lake to swim and dive. Gillilan was seized with cramps and sank before any of his companions could reach him. The other lads made several attempts to find him by diving, but were unsuccessful.
   By the use of grappling hooks, workers Sunday evening recovered the body. It was found near the spot where he went down. Besides his parents, a sister Lurene survives.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012