From The Southeast Missourian
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
17 May 1918

MRS E. E. GILLILAN
DIED THURSDAY
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BODY TO BE BROUGHT TO CAPE
GIRARDEAU SATURDAY
FOR BURIAL
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   Mrs. Erwinta E. Gillilan, wife of W. L. Gillilan, a prominent farmer living near Allenville, died at her home at 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon of a tumor on the brain, from which she had been suffering for several weeks and the end did not come unexpectedly.
   Mrs. Gilliland was 65 years of age and had lived in Cape Girardeau for many years. The body will be brought to Cape Girardeau on the Poplar Bluff train tomorrow from Delta and will be buried in Fairmount cemetery.  The funeral party will go direct from the train to the cemetery.
   Besides her husband, Mrs. Gillilan is survived by a son, H. Greeley Gillilan, who lives near Ancell.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010