Cook County IL Archives News.....Miss Therese Gilligan - Military Funeral Held 1921 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000719 October 24, 2011, 8:18 pm Journal Of IL State Historical Society, Vol 14 1921 Miss Therese Gilligan who died Thursday, April 14, at the United States Army hospital from a complication of diseases contracted in France while an army nurse, was buried on Saturday, April 15, in Chicago. It was one of the first military funerals ever held for a woman. Miss Gilligan's body was conveyed from the Church to the cemetery on a regulation army caisson, and taps were blown and a firing squad discharged a salute after her body was lowered in the grave. Miss Gilligan whose home was at 743 West Fifty-fourth place was attached to the Juvenile Court for nine years as a nurse. In 1917 she enlisted as an army nurse and served eighteen months overseas. Following her discharge she returned to the Juvenile court, but recently was compelled to give up her work and go to the hospital. The funeral was held under the direction of Delavan Post of the American Legion. Additional Comments: Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Published Quarterly by the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April- July, 1921 No. 1-2. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/cook/newspapers/missther263gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb