Kate’s notes:  The full name of “Fife” Gilliland was James Fife Hugh Gilliland. According to the 1870 census for Clifton Forge, Virginia, 12 year old James Fife was a son of William S. and Mary J. Gilliland. His siblings at the time were Stapleton, 15; William R., 13; Anna L., 9, and Jarom, 6. By 1880 “Fife H.” Gilliland can be found in the census for Hillsboro in Bath County, Virginia.
    The Annie Gilliland who married James Samples in 1886 may have been a sister of Fife Gilliland (see marriage files for the Gilliland-Samples article). At this time I do not know exactly how Fife and Mattie (Martha), both Gillilands, were related, though I suspect they were cousins of the line from James Gilliland and Susannah Young. There a number of those descendants still living in the Clifton Forge area.

Staunton Spectator, Volume 61, Number 23
Staunton, Virginia
19 February 1884

Gilliland—Gilliland.—On February 7th at the residence of Mr. Wm. Haynes, near Clifton Forge, by Rev. E. W. McCorkle, Mr. Fife H. Gilliland and Miss Mattie L. Gilliland, both of Alleghany county.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013