Kate’s notes:  A sad footnote to a family for whom tragedy was no stranger. Ten years before the death of Elizabeth Gillelan, her parents had died within two days of one another, victims of the Spanish influenza epidemic. Elizabeth was ten years of age at the time. The obituary for her parents may be found in the Gilliland Trails library.

The Carroll County Times
Westminster, Maryland
6 January, 1929

    Miss Elizabeth Gillelan, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gillelan, died at the home of her grandfather, George W. Albaugh, Friday morning, January 4th.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013