Kate’s Notes: The death year for Margaret, wife of Samuel Alexander Gilliland, was unclear from the original document from which I made this transcription. If you have more information on Margaret, please contact me at hpuppet@verizon.net.

From the Adams County News
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1 March, 1913

SAMUEL A. GILLILAND
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   Samuel Alexander Gilliland died at 7:25 a.m., Wednesday at the home of his son, W. F. Gilliland, on Carlisle street, after an illness of a few days from pneumonia. He was aged 78 years, 8 months and 22 days.
   Mr. Gilliland was born in Straban township and spent practically his entire life there. He was a member of the Great Conewago Presbyterian church and widely known through this section of the county.
   His wife, who before marriage was Miss Margaret McKnight, died on May 20, 18[85] and he leaves a son and a daughter, W. F. Gilliland, of Gettysburg, and Mrs. R. K. Major, of Straban township.
   Th funeral was held Friday afternoon at two o’clock from the Gilliland home, Gettysburg. Interment in Evergreen cemetery.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010