From The Daily News
Huntingdon and Mount Union, PA
2 July, 1951

Osewald P. Gilliland
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    Osewald P. Gilliland died at his home at Atkinsons Mills, Mifflin County, on Sunday night, July 1, 1951 at 10:30 o’clock.
   He was born in Wayne Township, Mifflin County, on May 21, 1891, and was a lifelong resident of that township. He was a member of the Atkinsons Mills Methodist Church and was financial secretary of the Junior Order United American Mechanics at Newton Hamilton.
   He is survived by his wife, Grace (Kaufmann) Gilliland; one son, Harold S. Gilliland, at home; one sister, Mrs. Violet Vaughan of Bucyrus, Ohio, and two grandchildren.
   The body may be viewed at the Booth funeral home in McVeytown from Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock until Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock when services will be held at the funeral home in charge of the Rev. Frank A. Crawford of the McVeytown Methodist Church, and Charles Rhoades. Interment will be made in the Newton Hamilton cemetery.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010