From The Clearfield Progress, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Saturday, December 21, 1940

HARRY T. GILLILAND

   Harry Thomas Gilliland, 61, died at his home, 10 West Fourth avenue, at 5 p.m. December 12, of cancer.
   Born at LeContes Mills, he was a son of Dr. William Smith and Martha Murray Gilliland. While a young lad his parents moved to Karthaus where he lived the greater part of his life. He attended the Karthaus public schools and later took a business course at Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, PA.
   In 1905 he was united in marriage to Vida Woolridge at Woodland, at which time he was employed by his father in a hardware store at Karthaus. In 1913, he purcahsed the General Store, formerly owned by his uncle, Joseph Gilliland, and operated that business until 1929, when he quit the retail merchant business. The following year he was made cashier of the Karthaus State Bank, which position he held until the bank was taken over by the Clearfield Trust Company. For the past seven years he had not been actively engaged in any business.
   Surviving, together with his widow, Vida W. Gilliland, are the following children: Lynn, William, Margaret, wife of Alexander M. [Lemmon], all of Clearfield. Two granchildren also survive, as do the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. George Spears, Reading; Mrs. James Hipple, Morristown. N.J.; Mrs. N. R. McNaughton, Altoona; Mrs. W. D. Ross, Karthaus and Paul W. Gilliland, Williamsport. His father and mother and seven brothers and sisters preceded him in death.
   Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, Dec. 15, with Rev. R. R. Lehman officiating, assisted by Rev. William E. Holley of Woodland and Rev. N. D. Shirley of Karthaus. Interment was made in the Keewaydin Cemetery.

-- Contributed by Kate Maynard