The Portsmouth Times
Portsmouth, Ohio
March1, 1948

Evan R. Gilliland

    Evan R. Gilliland, 53, of Columbus, a former Portsmouth resident, died at 4 p.m. Sunday several hours after he had attended church services. Earlier this year, Mr. Gilliland was ill with pneumonia.
    Mr. Gilliland was born Dec. 1, 1894, near Minford, a son of Judge N. B. and Lucinda Monroe Gilliland. He lived in Portsmouth most of his life, moving to Columbus in 1936. While here he served several years as secretary of Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers association, and later held similar posts in Akron and Columbus. He married Elsie B. Tipton in 1918.
    He is suvived by his wife; one son, William N. Gillland, a research fellow in the Ohio State university department of geology who is to receive a Ph. D degree there in June; the father, 1026 Ruhlman av.; two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Coryell of Santa Monica, Calif., and Mrs. Chloe Slattery, 1026 Ruhlman av.; one grand-daughter, Sherrie Ann Gilliland of Columbus. One brother and one sister preceded him in death.
    Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Windel-Howland funeral home with Rev. Benjamin V. Smith officiating. Burial will be made in Rushtown cemetery. The body will remain at the funeral home.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2011