The Portsmouth Times
Portsmouth, Ohio
30 August, 1948

Mrs. Elsie Tipton Gilliland.

    Six months to the day after the death of her husband, Mrs. Elsie Tipton Gilliland, widow of Evan R. Gilliland, passed away at 8:45 a.m. Sunday in Jewish hospital, Cincinnati, where she had been a patient for 10 days. She was 53. At the time of deaths there was but 15 days difference in ages.
    She was born May 14, 1895, in Portsmouth, a daughter of William and Emma Shelpman Tipton. She attended schools in Portsmouth, Wheelersburg and McDermott. In 1918 she was married to Mr. Gilliland. She had lived in Portsmouth and Columbus and left this locality about 12 years ago.
    Surviving are a son, William of Fallon, Nev.; two sisters, Mrs. Lena Starlin of Cincinnati, whom Mrs. Gilliland had been visiting, and Mrs. Joseph Girman of McKeesport, Pa., and one grandchild.
    Mrs. Gilliland was a member of Franklin Avenue Methodist church and the ladies’ auxiliary of the Retail Food Dealers.
    Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wedneday at Windel-Howland funeral home, where the body may now be viewed. Burial will be in Rushtown cemetery.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2011