The Portsmouth Times 
Portsmouth, Ohio
7 September , 1959 

Jackson, Ohio - S. S. Gilliland

    Funeral services are to be conducted Tuesday at 3 pm at Mayhew Funeral Home for Sanford S. Gilliland, 85, who died Saturday while visiting a neighbor near his home on Oak Hill Rt. 2. Rev. O. C. Cooper is to officiate with burial in Antioch Cemetery.
    Mr. Gilliland was born Aug. 17, 1876, in Jackson County, a son of John B. and Elizabeth Johnson Gilliland. A farmer, he was a lifelong resident of the county. His wife, Mrs. Gertrude Gilliland, preceded him in death in 1943.
    Surviving are a son, John Gilliland of Oak Hill Rt. 2; a daughter, Mrs. Gwendolyn Dearing of Columbus, and a sister, Mrs. Bessie Hammerstein, also of Columbus. Mr. Gilliland was a member of Antioch Church. Friends may call at the funeral home.

-Contributed by Mrs. Ida Franks