The Plateau Voice
Collbran, Mesa County, Colorado
12 February, 1915

RALPH GILLILAND

    Little Ralph Gilliland, the twelve-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gilliland of near  Collbran, died at the hospital at Salida last Wednesday morning, February 10th, the result of a disease of the brain.
    Last December Ralph was stricken with tonsillitis and in recovering lost the use of one side of his body. A few weeks ago he gradually grew worse, and about a week ago it was decided to take him to the Salida Hospital to undergo an operation. However the operation proved unsuccessful, and early Wednesday morning he passed to the great beyond.
    Ralph Gilliland was born May 10th, 1903, and is the oldest of five children. Besides two stricken parents he leaves two brothers and two sisters.
    Funeral services are being held this afternoon in charge of Rev. D. J. Gillanders and burial is being made in the Collbran cemetery.
    The bereaved have the greatest sympathy of the entire neighborhood in their severe loss.

--transcription by Kate Maynard, 2011