From The Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
7 December 1929

Mrs. Gillelan To
Be Buried Sunday
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   Emmitsburg, Md., Dec 7. -- Mrs. Virginia Gillelan, 86, wife of the late David S. Gillelan, died at her home on West Main street after an illness of several months. Death was due to complications and advanced age. She was one of the oldest residents of the Emmitsburg community and last member of a family of 10 children. Mrs. Gillelan was born near Emmitsburg, the daughter of the late Samuel and Rosanna Fleagle and has always resided in this section where she was a devoted member of the Lutheran church.
   She is survived by one daughter, Miss Anna Gillelan, with whom she made her home, and three sons, Charles E. and H. Maurice Gillelan, of Emmitsburg, and William Gillelan, of Greenmount, Pa. She is also survived by five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
   Funeral services Sunday afternoon at the Lutheran church with the Rev. Phillip Bower, pastor, officiating. Burial in the Lutheran cemetery.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010