The Portsmouth Times
Portsmouth, Ohio
22 March, 1940

Mrs. Mary E. Gilliland

JACKSON, March 22 -- Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon for Mrs. Mary E. Gilliland, 79, who died at the home here of her daughter, Mrs. W. C. Davis, Thursday morning.
    A life resident of Jackson, Mrs. Gilliland had been ill for a number of months, death resulting from complications.
    Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Sarah Hixon, Mrs. Effie Perkins and Mrs. Davis, all of Jackson, and one son, John Gilliland, of Athens.
    Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Nazarene church with Rev. Verne Darling officiating and burial will be made in Fairmont cemetery under the direction of Clyde E. Mayhew.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2011