From the Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia
August 25, 1940

BOUGHT FIRST WAGON

   Richard Hill Gillilan, owner and farmer of 608 acres of good farming land near Frankford, was born Sept. 14, 1814. His grandfather was one of the pioneers of this vicinity, coming from Augusta county, where he was born March 16, 1749, and settling upon 400 acres of land near Falling Spring. It is said he brought the first wagon to the county and he used to take his produce to Philadelphia for a market.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010

Notes: The "vicinity" referred to in this article is the Greenbrier Valley. Richard Hill Gillilan's grandfather was James Gillilan, Sr., son of Nathan Gilliland.