Kate’s notes:  The Mississippi Digital Library is a useful online repository particularly for those researching Gilliland ancestors from Tate County.  Louise Cox Fox compiled Tate County records into several volumes that cover marriages, wills and tax records through the early part of the 20th Century. She also compiled as a separate volume the records of black marriages in Tate County, a rare resource.
   To further explore the records of the Mississippi Digital Library and the books of Louise Cox Fox, please visit this web site: http://www.msdiglib.org/
   Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a source (seller) for Fox’ books. I would suggest contacting the Tate County, MS Genealogical and Historical Society, which offers a number of publications for sale (I think some may actually be books by Fox, though the author is not specified.). Their web site is: http://msgw.org/tate/gensoc.html
   Below is an example of the kind of records that can be found among Fox’ volumes.

As Louise Fox noted in the preface to her compilation, the dates recorded were not necessarily the date of the actual marriage but the bond date. She indicated this with the use of asterisks.

Black Marriages of Tate County, Mississippi
1873-1900
Compiled by Louise Cox Fox

Gilliland, Alley to White, Sally
01 April 1899 
Book 9, page 290

Gilliland, Anna to Bowen, Henry
21 September 1899
Book 9, page 316

Gilliland, Bettie to Moore, Tony
24 February, 1887
Book 5, page 353

Gilliland, Calvin to Gilliland, Mollie
25 November, 1876*
Book 1, page 389

Gilliland, Eliza to Hardiman, Robert H.
26 October, 1899
Book 9, page 330

Gilliland, John to Myers, Sarah
16 March, 1877*
Book 1, page 467

Gilliland, John to Williams, Sarah
17 January, 1898
Book 9, page 96

Gilliland, Leander to Atkins, Bill
01 March, 1892
Book 6, page 414

Gilliland, Luvenia to McGee, Lee
11 December, 1894
Book 7, page 124

Gilliland, Needham to Parsons, Callie
01 March, 1893
Book 6, page 411

Gilliland, Rebecca to Jeter, Julius
26 January, 1900
Book 9, page 425

Gilliland, Saulsberry to Elder, Cinda
11 December, 1894
Book 7, page 123

Gilliland, Thomas to Rowell, Lucinda
27 September 1878*
Book 2, page 153

Gilliland, Walter to Bowen, Clara
22 December, 1898*
Book 9, page 202

Gillilans, Nora to Green, George
08 March, 1898
Book 9, page 116