Kate’s notes:  The obituary for Anna’s husband, Daniel Gilleland, can be found in the obituary archive of the Gilliland Trails library.

The Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona
10 November, 1966

Mrs. Anna Gilleland Dies at 100

PRESCOTT – Mrs. Anna R. Packard Gilleland, who came to the Salt River Valley in 1875, died in Yavapai Community Hospital Tuesday. She was 100.
   She had jounced with her parents in a covered wagon over Indian trails in central Arizona, arriving at Hayden’s Ferry from California in 1875. Hayden’s Ferry became Tempe, and what was to become ASU was one of Arizona Territory’s earliest wood-framed schoolhouses. When she was 9, Anna R. Packard was the only white student there.
   A century of civilization’s quickest progress and busiest history passed into scrapbooks in Miss Packard’s mind from the time she was born in 1866 in the California village of Westport.
   Until the end of her life she could recall childhood trips into the Tonto Basin and fleeing to Ft. Reno for protection from Apache attacks.
   Her husband, Dan, died in 1939. In 1909, after their marriage, the couple moved from Tempe to Ash Creek to establish the Gilleland Ranch. Her father, Amon A. Packard, was one of the first ranchers in the Tonto Basin.
   Services for Mrs. Gilleland, who lived in Prescott at the time of her death, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Ruffner’s Funeral Home there. Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery.
   In addition to the nine great-great-grandchildren, Mrs. Gilleland is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Millicent Genung of Prescott, and two sons, Ernest G. Gilleland of Las Vegas and Eugene B. Gilleland of San Leandro, Calif. There are also 16 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
   Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the mortuary.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012