Robert W. Gully
Sept. 25, 1875-April 24, 1954
Niles Daily Star, Monday, April 26, 1954, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library
Robert W. Gully, 78, of 516 Cass street, died at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Pawating Hospital, where he had been a patient for 18 days. He had been ill for several months.
Gully was born Sept. 25, 1875, in Virginia and came here 33 years ago from Chicago. he was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, and a member of th Franklin AME Church and the Niles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
His only known survivor is his wife, Aney Belle.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuday in the Franklin AME Church wit the Rev. Emory Davis of Galesburg, Ill., officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the Kiger Funeral Home.