From The Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio
October 20, 1925

Mrs. Margaret Gilliland 
   Mrs. Margaret Gilliland Dever, widow of Francis Marion Dever, died in the Shirrman Hospital Portsmouth, Ohio, Friday, October 9th. She had been ill for several months.
   Mrs. Dever was born in Hamilton Township, Jackson county, Ohio, December 20th, 1844. In 1865 she was married to Jacob Slavens of Pike County, Ohio, to which union three children were born. Two died in infancy. Charles S. Slavens, her son, and family, of Hamilton Township, survive her. Her first husband died in 1873. She was married to Mr. Dever in 1868. Since the death of her husband in 1919 she had lived with her son.
   Mrs. Dever was a very kind and thoughtful woman and had innumerable friends who will mourn her passing.
   The funeral services were conducted by Rev. I. N. Grisso of Jackson at the home of C. S. Slavens in Hamilton Township at one o’clock on Monday, Oct. 12. Burial in Fairmount cemetery, Jackson.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010