From The Marion Star, Marion, Ohio
 March 5, 1931 
 
LAST WAR VET 
PASSES AWAY
N. P. Gilliland, 86, of Unionville Center, Dies; Funeral Friday 

Special to the Star.
   MARYSVILLE, March 5 -- N. P. Gilliland, 86, Unionville Center's last Civil war veteran, died yesterday at the home of Mrs. Clara Harris, his daughter.
   Gilliland served for three years as a member of the 33rd O.V.I. and was a member of the army which took part in Sherman's march to the sea. He was a member of the Ransom Reed Post, G. A. R. of Marysville, Union Veterans' Legion of Columbus and the Army of the Cumberland. He also was a member of the M. E. church. A harness maker by trade, Gilliland was employed in Marysville for 40 years.
   Funeral services will be held in the Unionville Center M. E. church Friday at 2 p.m. Burial will be made in the Milford Center cemetery.
   Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Olive Noyes, Mrs. Lula McCreery, Mrs. Tina Davis and Mrs. Ethel Wetzel of Columbus.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010