Kate’s Notes: 
   This obituary for John Jordan Gillilan of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, was submitted by Peggy Hollandsworth Lewis, a descendant of John Jordan’s sister, Maggie Jane (Gillilan) Hollandsworth, the Mrs. Louis Gillilan mentioned in the obituary. Note, her husband's name was actually Lewis, not Louis, and used the Hollansworth, not Hollandsworth, spelling of the surname. Both spellings were used by this family.
   Peggy also shared that in the register of deaths for Greenbrier County, Dr. McFerrin recorded the date of John’s death as December 18, 1938 and the cause of death, “acute alcoholism with exposure.”
   John was a son of  W. B. “Billy Mike” Gillilan and his wife, Elizza Ann Scott. The original newspaper clipping, which was missing the name of the newspaper, may have appeared in either the Pocahontas Times or the Mountain Messenger.

FOUND DEAD ON FARM

   John Gillilan, a bachelor 46 years old and living alone on a farm on the edge of Greenbrier county in the Droop mountain section, was found dead on Tuesday about 10 a. m. in a private road on his farm, and indications were that he died on Sunday evening. He was last seen alive about 5:30 that evening by Lloyd Lou and Auto Hill, who took him home about that time and left him sitting on a log near the house. The place where he was found was about 100 yards away, indicating that he had arisen from the log and walked away in an opposite direction. In the party which discovered the body was Forest Workman, who was going to a nearby farm with several companions after a dressed hog. Dr. McFerrin was called from Renick and give [sic] it as his opinion that Gillilan had died of convulsions. Justice Burr of Renick was called by Deputy Sheriff Kinsley, who investigated Gillilan’s death, but an inquest was not thought necessary.
   Deceased was a son of Billy Mike Gillilan and is survived by two brothers and a sister. They are Brown Gillilan of Renick’s Valley, Kline of Fairmont and Mrs. Louis Hollandsworth of Spring Creek.