Kate’s notes: Due to the spotty condition of the original material any portions in doubt have been placed within brackets.
    In the Gilliland Trails library may be found several obituaries for different members of this family.

The Daily Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania
27 March, 1941

GRIM REAPER
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W. B. GILLELAND

    Walter B. Gilleland, 43 years old, of Star Junction, died at 6:15 o’clock Tuesday evening in the Veterans Hospital in the Bronx, New York, where he had been a patient for the past six weeks.
    Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Gadd Gilleland; his mother, Mrs. Alice Gilleland of Continental No. 2; and these brothers and sisters: Mrs. Ewing McClelland, Earl, Elroy, Alva and Eva, all of Continental No. 2, Mrs. J. B. Brown and Mrs. Edgar Brady of [D---], Mrs. Chester Means of Grindstone and William of Uniontown.
    He was a member of Uniontown Post No. 47, Veterans of Foreign wars.
    The body has been taken to the home of his mother at Continental.

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The Daily Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania
28 March, 1941

GILLELAND SERVICE

    The funeral service for Walter B. Gilleland, 43, of Star Junction, who died in Bronx Hospital in New York where he had been a patient for six weeks, will be held at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the home of his mother, Mrs. Alice Gilleland, at House No. 129, Continental No. 2, with Rev. C. W. Kerr, pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Uniontown, officiating. Interment will be made in the cemetery at New Salem.

-transcriptions by Kate Maynard, 2013