The Pilot
Southern Pines, North Carolina
4 August, 1944

Heart Attack Fatal
To W. R. Gilliland
Member of Pinehurst Po-
Lice Force Had Resided
There for Twenty Years

    William Ralph Gilliland, 70, a member of the Pinehurst police force, died suddenly Monday afternoon at the Martin Motor Company’s place in Aberdeen. He suffered from a heart ailment for a number of years and for several days had not felt well. 
    Mr. Gilliland was a native of Randolph County, but came to Pinehurst to make his home in February 1924. Interment was in Morris Chapel cemetery in Harnett County.
    Surviving are his widow, who before her marriage was Miss Mattie Della Leslie of Jonesboro;  one son, Leslie Gilliland, of Pinehurst; three grandsons and three granddaughters, all of Pinehurst.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013