Kate’s Notes: Although in this biographical sketch it is stated that Sarah (Gliff) Gilliland’s  maternal grandparents were from South Carolina, the Reagins were of Irish stock and established in Maryland and Virginia from early times. Some from this family migrated to the area of Newberry, South Carolina and others to Sevier County, Tennessee. A genealogy of this Reagin/Ragan family can be found here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lydieanderson/TRagan.htm
   I would like to know how Sarah fits into this family tree but could find no way to contact the person who posted the Reagin genealogy.
   Though Dr. Sarah’s biography was published in a history of Kentucky, she could be considered a Cincinnatian, for the city where she was born, raised and educated. Covington, Kentucky, where she eventually settled, is situated directly across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.

KENTUCKY.
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A HISTORY OF THE STATE

EMBRACING

A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE VIRGINIA COLONY; ITS EXPANSION WESTWARD, AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE FRONTIER BEYOND THE ALLEGHENIES; THE ERECTION OF KENTUCKY AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE, AND ITS SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENT.

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W. H. PERRIN            J. H. BATTLE            G. C. KNIFFIN
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SEVENTH EDITION
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ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS
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LOUISVILLE, KY, CHICAGO, ILL.:
F. A. BATTEY AND COMPANY
1887.

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SARAH M. GILLILAND, M.D., was born in Cincinnati and is a daughter of James Gliff, a prominent politician and member of the board of aldermen. He represented Hamilton County, Ohio, in the Legislature three times, and married a Miss Reagin, who was a teacher in the public schools before her marriage. She was the daughter of Reason Reagin, of South Carolina, who settled in Cincinnati in 1804, where he was city coroner for many years. Mrs. Gilliland graduated at the Cincinnati High School, and afterward attended the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati, where she had charge of diseases of the eye and ear. After graduating at the latter place she practiced some time in Cincinnati, but in 1886 removed to Covington, Ky. She married Mr. Gilliland, a professor in a seminary in the West, who died in 1877. Mrs. Gilliland is the most prominent doctor in the city, and makes a specialty of the diseases of women and children.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010