A HISTORY
OF THE
STATE OF OKLAHOMA

BY
LUTHER B. HILL, A. B.
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES

VOLUME I
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ILLUSTRATED
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THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO                        NEW YORK
1910

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   J. D. GILLILAND, an agriculturist in Eason township, was born in Barren county, Kentucky, in 1859, and his parents, David and Fribie (Mingard) Gilliland were also natives of that commonwealth, and there they spent their lives and died. In their family were five children, four sons and a daughter.
   J. D. Gilliland spent the first seventeen years of his life on the home farm in Kentucky, and then went to Wright county, Missouri, from whence he later went to Webster county, that state, and from there to Texas, where he rode the range as a cowboy for some time. From Texas he became one the early pioneers of Indian Territory, locating there as early as 1882, and after living for a time at Leon he went to Burneyville and from there to McGee. In 1897 he came to Pottawatomie county, Oklahoma, and in Eason township he now owns a well cultivated and valuable homestead farm, one of its principal features being its large and well bearing orchard of twenty acres, in which he raises all the standard varieties of fruits grown in this section, including many varieties of apples.
   During his residence in Indian Territory, in 1886, Mr. Gilliland wedded Nancy Buttram, who was born in Arkansas, but was reared and attended school in Indian Territory, and they have had six children, namely: Margie, John, Buford, Zeland, Ruby and J. D., Jr.  Mr. Gilliland’s politics are Democratic, and during three years he served his township as a trustee with an excellent record. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Chrisitan church.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010