Kate’s notes:  There are Gillilands who have been in the Sheridan area for some time. One example is Andrew Jackson Helton, born in Missouri to Kentucky native Susan Jane Gilliland and Indiana-born William Helton. Andrew Jackson Helton died in Sheridan in 1947.

The Sheridan Post
Sheridan, Wyoming
26 August,  1919

SENATOR GILLILAND
VISITING FROM IOWA
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   Hon. Shirley Gilliland, a prominent politician and attorney from Glenwood, Iowa, was in Sheridan yesterday looking for a man whose signature is needed in order to settle an estate in Iowa. Mr. Gilliland is making his first trip to this section of Wyoming, and while here met a number of former Iowans who emigrated from Mills county which has been his home since boyhood. Mr. Gilliland has for many years been a member of the Iowa senate and served a number of terms on the board of regents of the state university.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012