Kate’s Notes: Long Island, Catawba County, North Carolina was a village that was flooded to create Lake Norman. There is a facebook page with many photos of the village and the families who once lived there – link: www.facebook.com/t091939r

The Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina
25 November, 1932

Aunt Jinnie Gilleland
Dies at Long Island
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    Long Island, Nov. 23. -- Miss Eugenie Thomas Gilleland, known to all her friends as “Aunt Jinnie,” died this morning at 5 o’clock in the home of her niece, Miss Beulah Gilleland, at Long Island. Miss Gilleland had been ill since November 9 and was paralyzed in her right side November 18. Her death was expected by relatives and friends after she was paralyzed.
    Miss Gilleland was born November 1, 1848, being 84 years and 21 days old. She is survived by the following nieces and nephews: Mr. Rome Gilleland, Paw Creek; Miss Beulah Gilleland, Long Island; Mr. Murton Gilleland, Wake Forest; Mrs. John Christenbury, Wake Forest; Mrs. June McGinnis, Catawba, Rt. 2; Mr. George Gilleland, Lincolnton; Mr. Gates Gilleland, Lincolnton, and Mrs. Lillian Gilleland Miller, of Lincolnton.
    Funeral services will be conducted at Concord church, Long Island, Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Interment will be made in the church cemetery.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013