Kate’s Notes: Hannah Josephine Gilliland was born Aug. 30, 1865 to Benjamin Franklin Gilliland, a blacksmith, and Sarah Johnson Marsh, his wife, both Ohio-born and associated with the Gillilands of the Red Oak congregation of Brown County, Ohio. In the 1870 census for La Harpe, Illinois, the household consisted of B. F.,  40; Sarah, 34; daughter Hattie F., 15; son George E., 10;  Sarah E., 8; Hannah J., 6;  and Frank, 2. By the time of the 1880 census we learn that Sarah is now widowed and her household consists of son George, 19; Libbie, 17 (Sarah E. in the 1870 census. “Libbie” would have been a nickname derived from her middle name, Elizabeth);  Josephine, 14 (Hannah J. in the 1870 census);  Frank, 12; Charles, 9; and Archy, 6 (Archy’s full name was Samuel Arch or Archibald Gilliland).
   Josephine’s death followed that of her brother Charles by less than a year and at the time of her death, it appears that Samuel Arch was the only surviving member of the family.
   The obituary for Charles A. Gilliland in also in the library’s collection as well that for Josephine’s mother, Sarah. There is an article on another brother, Samuel “Archy” Gilliland, in the News Archives.

The Beatrice Daily Sun
Beatrice, Nebraska
20 July, 1939

JOSEPHINE GILLILAND
RITES HERE FRIDAY
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    Funeral services for Miss Josephine Gilliland of this city, who died at a hospital here Wednesday afternoon, will be held at 10 o’clock Friday morning from the Harman-Johnson mortuary.
    The body will be in state at the funeral home from 7:30 to 9 o’clock tonight.
    Rev. H. E. Asboe of Christ Episcopal church will officiate, and interment will be in Evergreen Home cemetery.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010