Kate’s notes:  In the 1940 census James Clifton Gilliland was still single and living with his parents. Further investigation reveals that he had attended Virginia Military Institute (Class of 1932) and sadly, died in World War II. The VMI archives record that Capt. James C. Gilliland, U.S. Army Air Force, was killed on July 10, 1945 in an airplane crash over Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. 

The Hereford Brand
Hereford, Texas
1 September, 1911

   Hon. Carl Gilliland says he wants to write the editorials for the Brand for the next few weeks. He’s feeling his importance on account of the arrival at his home of a new boy whose advent the Brand failed to chronicle. We owe our apologies to the young man for not making note of his arrival and do now hereby record the date, same being  Thursday, June 22, 1911. His father walked [possibly a line of text missing here] with such a proud attitude at the time that he failed to mention the fact to the reporter, he doubtless thinking the whole county would surely know of such an important affair. The young man, who now bears the name of James Clifton Gilliland, is the center of interest in the home and [his] making promise of his future.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012