From The Portsmouth Times
Portsmouth, Ohio
21 August, 1937

George F. Gilliland
   
   Funeral services for George Franklin Gilliland, 632 Seventh street, fireman at the Washington hotel for many years, who died Wednesday at the state hospital in Athens, where he had been a patient for four days, were held at 2 p.m. today.
   Rev. H. O. Van Gilder, pastor of First Baptist church, was in charge of the services at the Richards funeral home. Burial was in Greenlawn cemetery. Pallbearers were Thomas Jones, Harold Jones Sr., and Harold Jones Jr., Harmon Stamper, Eugene [Harr] and James Stamper.

From The Portsmouth Times
Portsmouth, Ohio
September 24, 1965

Mrs. Mary Gilliland

   Mrs. Mary Gilliland, 85, of 1533 11th St., died at 2:55 p.m. Thursday in Mercy Hospital, where she had been a paitent 17 days.
   Mrs. Gilliland had been ill a number of years.
   She was a native of Portsmouth and had been a member of Temple Baptist Church more than 50 years. She was also a charter member of the Daughters of America here and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
   Surviving are a son, Warren Gilliland, at home; three daughters, Mrs. Helen Herrod of Payson, Ariz., Mrs. Margaret Crabtree, 1535 11th St., and Mrs. Thelma Maynard, 1730 Poplar St., 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
   Funeral services are to be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at Temple Baptist Church, with Rev. Dr. Otis R. Holmes officiating. Interment is to be in Memorial Burial Park under direction of Brock Funeral Home.
   Friends may call at the funeral home.

-- transcriptions by Kate Maynard, 2010