Kate’s notes: I have had a copy of this obituary for some time but because the newspaper text was quite muddled, I had set it aside. What I’ve done here is provide the newspaper text as it was published, set within brackets, followed by my best guess at how the text should have read, indicated by italics.

The Daily Herald
Delphos, Ohio
18 January, 1898

AN OLD PIONEER
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Mrs. Margaret Gilliland Died at
the Age of 89.
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    Mrs. Margaret Gilliland, relict of Gordon Gilliland, died Monday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. H. McCoy, near Van Wert, at the advanced age of 89 years.
   Mrs. Gilliland was a pioneer resident of Van Wert county. The funeral will be held from the Presbyterian church in Van Wert, Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock. [G. G. McCoy, the deceased, went to Van Wert yes- of this place, is a grandson of the deceased.] 

G. G. McCoy, of this place, a grandson of the deceased, went to Van Wert yesterday.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013