Kate's Notes: Any portions of the text in doubt are indicated by brackets. 

from The Portsmouth Daily Times
Tuesday, January 11, 1921
 
ED. S. GILLILAND
 
    A life crowned with success was ended when death claimed Ed. S. Gilliland at four o'clock Tuesday morning, the final summons coming at his home, 40[57] Rhodes avenue, New Boston. He had been ill only a week today, his death being caused by complications brought about by liver trouble.
    Mr. Gilliland was born in Jackson county, December [1866]. He was reared in that county and when a young man engaged in business practically all his life, making a success of every venture he undertook in the business world. In Wellston he had a grocery store and meat market. In that village he was injured in a serious gas explosion and later he engaged in the grocery business in Jackson, O. For the last ten years he had been a traveling salesman for the Western Shoe Company of Toledo. He traveled through Southern Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. He was quick to make friends with all and he numbered his friends by his acquaintances.
    Mr. Gilliland is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ida Gilliland, one daughter, Mrs. Edgar Burkhardt, of Rhodes avenue, New Boston, and three grandchildren, his aged mother, Mrs. J. L. Canter, of near Stockdale, a half brother, Elza Canter, of Stockdale, and three half sisters, Mrs. Alex Henderson of Jackson, Mrs. John [Porter] of Stockdale and Mrs. John Dever of Denver, Colo.
   The family moved to New Boston three years ago and since that time the family won many friends who will learn of Mr. Gilliland's death with genuine sorrow.  
    He was a member of the Sciotoville Christian church. He was a charter member of the Knights of Pythias lodge of Beaver, Pike county, and also a member of the United Commercial Travelers of Portsmouth.

-- transcribed by Kate Maynard, 2009