OBIT: Elder Ross GILLIFORD, 1900, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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ELDER ROSS GUILLIFORD. [sic]

  At 2.45 o'clock yesterday morning Elder Ross Gilliford, an aged and 
respected resident of the Fourth ward, died at his home, 1331 Sixth 
avenue, of pneumonia.  He had been ailing for one week during which 
time he bore his sufferings with Christian fortitude, and passed into 
the next world with the hope of a happy hereafter.
  Deceased was a son of James and Mary Gilliford, early residents of 
Juniata county, and was born near Port Royal, June 29, 1834.  He 
received a common school education and in early manhood learned the 
carpenter trade.  On December 24, 1857, he was married to Miss Ada 
Burchfield.  The union was a most happy one, and to them were born the 
following children, who, with his wife, survive: Fannie G., Emma S., 
Stiles E. and Horace L, all at home; Mary, wife of William Reynolds; W. 
Ross, Cora M., wife of Clarence Miller, all of Altoona.
  Mr. Gilliford with his family came to Altoona eleven years ago and 
followed his chosen occupation.  He was unassuming, upright and honest, 
and made a host of friends who will learn of his death with sincere 
regret.  He was a member of the Second Presbyterian church and Altoona 
conclave No. 132, Improved Order of Heptasophs.  The funeral will take 
place Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, funeral services to be conducted 
at his late home by Rev. Henry Howard Stiles; interment in Oak Ridge 
cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Friday, January 12, 1900