LELAND - GEORGIA N. - 1918, Ellsworth

October 19, 1918
Bar Harbor Times

Mrs. Georgia N. Leland died at Ellsworth on Wednesday morning at Bar Harbor on Pine Street after a weeks illness of influenza, terminating in pneumonia.
She was born in the town of Eden April 19, 1883, daughter of Herbert M. and Nancy P. Emery.  After completing her education she taught school a few years, first in West Surry and then in Ellsworth, working during her vacations in the registry of deeds with her grandfather, the late William B. Campbell.
She was married to Charles H. Leland, the present Post Master at Ellsworth, on Oct. 18, 1904, and had since made her home there.  She was very prominent in social and charitable work, being a member of the Eastern Star, and Rebekhas, the Women's Relief Corps, the Unitarian Church and the Red Cross, in which she had been extremely active during the past year.
Besides her husband and parents, she leaves one sister, Mrs. John W. Leavitt of Boston, and four brothers, Joseph and William of Bar Harbor, herbert of Somesville, Mass., and Oscar of Camden.  She had many friends in Bar Harbor, as well as throughout the county, who will mourn her loss.
Funeral services were held from the residence at Ellsworth on Friday afternoon, Rev. J.W. Tickle officiating.