From The Southeast Missourian
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
3 April 1930

MRS GILLILAND
OF WHITEWATER
TOWNSHIP DIES
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Jackson Bureau         
The Missourian.        

   Jackson, April 4. -- Mrs. Sarah C. Gilliland, 67 years old, died at 10:30 o’clock Thursday night at her home in Whitewater township from appendicitis and resulting peritonitis. Although suffering from appendicitis for some time, her condition was not considered serious until last Sunday.
   Mrs. Gilliland, whose maiden name was Welker, was born in this county on Aug. 8, 1863, and lived her entire life in the western part of this county. About 28 years ago she was married to John A.Gilliland, who survives her, together with one daughter, Mrs. Nola Dolph, who lives on the home place; her mother, Mrs. M. C. Welker, also of Whitewater township; two brothers, A. C. and Bennett Welker, also in that neighborhood; and many other more distant relatives.
   The funeral will be held at Old Salem M. E. Church Saturday afternoon and interment in the cemetery there. Mrs. Gilliland was a member of this church for years.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010