Kate's Notes: My grandfather, George Franklin Gilliland, had two daughters, Jennie and Edith, by his first marriage to Nettie Griffin. Edith died of tuberculosis, a disease that afflicted several members of my mother's family and prompted my Aunt Helen's move to Arizona.

From The Portsmouth Times
Portsmouth, Ohio
9 June 1941

Mrs. Edith Ohmes
   Mrs. Edith Ohmes, 43, of 1517 Third street, died at 4:35 a.m. Sunday at Mt. Logan sanatarium, where she had been a patient the last 10 months.
   Mrs. Ohmes was born March 19, 1898, in Portsmouth, a daughter of Frank and Nettie Griffin Gilliland. She had resided here all her life and for 15 years did practical nursing work. Mrs. Ohmes was a member of Temple Baptist church.
   Surviving are her husband, E. Paul Ohmes, and five children: Robert Barney of New Boston, a teacher in the schools there, Miss Janet Bentley, [626] Sixth street, Paul Bentley of Urbana, Ray and Kathleen Bentley, 821 Murray street.
   She also leaves a sister, Mrs. Earl Strickland*, 1517 Third street, three half sisters and a half-brother: Mrs. Helen Huels, Mrs. Thelma Maynard, Miss Margaret Gilliland and Warren Gilliland of Portsmouth, and her step-mother, Mrs. Mary Gilliland of Portsmouth. A grandchild, Eddie Barney, also survives.

*The maiden name of Mrs. Earl Strickland was Jennie Gilliland. Earl Strickland was Jennie’s second husband; her first marriage was to Tom Roush and ended in divorce.

Historical Notes: 	
   The Mount Logan Tuberculosis (TB) Sanatorium at Chillicothe served the six member counties of the Mt. Logan Sanatorium District. The district, composed originally of Fayette, Highland, Pike, Ross, and Scioto counties, was organized in 1915; Jackson County joined later the same year. The sanatorium began admitting patients in 1918. The facility closed its doors and the district disbanded around l970, part of its land having already been used for the Chillicothe campus of Ohio University. 

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010