Kate’s notes: Austin Garfield Gilliland was born October 25, 1881 at Portlandville, Iowa to Samuel Buckley and Isabella Jane (Sheets) Gilliland.

The Reno Evening Gazette
Reno, Nevada
16 May, 1944

A. Gilliland
Dies at Oroville

LOYALTON, Calif., May 16 – Austin Gilliland, 64, Western Pacific railroad telegraph operator, died suddenly at his home in Oroville recently.
   Surviving are three daughters, Gladys J. Coomes of Ely, Nev., Jesse I. Rehdorf of San Jose and Mrs. Doris Stoy of Tuolumne, and a son, Samuel G. Gilliland, who is a telegraph operator at Howell’s Flat.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013