HISTORY

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BENTON, WASHINGTON, CARROLL,
MADISON, CRAWFORD, FRANKLIN,
AND SEBASTIAN COUNTIES,
ARKANSAS.
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FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT, INCLUDING A DEPARTMENT
DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF SUNDRY PERSONAL, BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL AND PRIVATE RECORDS, BESDIES
A VALUABLE FUND OF NOTES, ORIGINAL
OBSERVATIONS, ETC. ETC
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ILLUSTRATED
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CHICAGO:
THE GOODSPEED PUBLISHING Co
1889.

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MADISON COUNTY.

    GILLILAND, James, senior member of the firm Gilliland & Stotts, dealers in hardware and agricultural implements, was born in Haywood County, Tenn., in 1831, on March 5, and is a son of J. B. and Jane (McFerren) Gilliland. The father was born in Virginia in 1791, moved to Alabama when a boy, and was married in Tennessee, where his eight children were born. In 1837 he located in Arkansas, five miles south of Huntsville, sold his place about 1850, and moved on Kings’ River, where he farmed until his death in 1857. The mother was born in Virginia in 1792, and died in Texas in 1867. All of the children, save one sister, are living. James passed his youth upon the farm, remaining with parents until twenty-three years of age, when he married and engaged in farming. In 1857 he moved to Texas, and there served in the Confederate army four years. He left Texas in 1867 and settled in War Eagle, where he served as sheriff for two years after 1874. He then became interested in the insurance business, but for the past nine years has been successfully engaged in the mercantile business at Huntsville. In 1854 he married Susan Keeling, of this county, by whom he has had five children: David B., John T., Samuel, Margaret C. and Mary Jane (deceased). Both himself and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Gilliland is a Democrat and a Mason.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012