Isabelle May (Ferguson) Gilleland |
| Posted 2017-10-12 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Monday, March 26, 1956, page 3, column 7 Funeral Scheduled Tuesday For Mrs. Isabelle M. Gilleland Funeral services will be conducted from the Ruffner Funeral Home at 4 p.m. for Mrs. Isabelle May Gilleland, resident of Yavapai County for 42 years, who died Saturday in a local hospital. Officiating at the services will be Dr. Charles Franklin Parker of the First Congregational Church. Mrs. Gilleland was born July 22, 1873, in Columbus, Ind., the daughter of Daniel S. and Rebecca Ann Ferguson. Her father served four years in the Union Army during the Civil War. Her mother was a native of Belgium who came with her parents to America when she was eight years old. When Mrs. Gilleland was five years old, the family left Indiana by covered wagon for Dodge City, Kan., then the western rail head of the Santa Fe railroad, where Mrs. Gilleland lived for 10 years. She was married when she was 15 and went with her husband to live in Parsons, Kan. Her husband died before their baby was born. The mother and baby lived in Parsons two years, and then moved to Coolidge in western Kansas, where Mrs. Gilleland homesteaded 160 acres near where he sister lived. She lived there three years, and remarried there. The family then moved to Hoehne, Colo., in 1893, and built a rock home there. After 21 years in Colorado, Mrs. Gilleland moved to Arizona in 1914, settling in Yavapai County. Her second husband died many years ago. Mrs. Gilleland was a Yavapai County ranch woman for many years, but in recent years had lived in Prescott. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Bertha Schell of Camp Wood, and Mrs. Tucia May Cross, of Trinidad, Colo.; 15 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren and nine great-great grandchildren. The body will lie in state at Ruffner Funeral Home from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday and friends wishing to do so may call. Interment will be in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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