Kate's Notes: Margaret Gilliland Ward and her brother George W. Gilliland were just two among the many children of Samuel and Elizabeth Ellen (Buckley) Gilliland of Jackson County, Ohio. The Mrs. J. H. Newvahner mentioned in the article was Ida Gilliland Newvahner.

from the Portsmouth Daily Times
March 26, 1925

JACKSON

Mrs. Margaret Ward

    Relatives have received word of the death of Mrs. Margaret Ward of Waverly. She passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Moore in Huntington, W.Va. She was the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Gilliland, both deceased. She was a sister of the late George Gilliland and an aunt of Mrs. J. H. Newvahner and Miss Carrie Gilliland of this city.

-- transcribed by Kate Maynard, 2009.