Kate’s Notes: There is an inconsistency in this obituary that needs some clarification. Although the subject of the obituary is listed both as John B. and John D. Gilliland, I believe the former is correct, as there was a John B. Gilliland, employee of the government printing office, listed in the Washington, D. C. city directory for 1908.
   Due to the lack of some specifics in the obituary -- such as no name given for his wife -- plus the number of John Gillilands born in Illinois at about the same time, I cannot with certainty assign John B. to a particular family tree. I suspect he may be the John B. Gilliland born to W. A. Gilliland of Tennessee and his wife Mary E. (Virginia born) who were living in Piatt County, Illinois in 1860. As I said, this is only a guess because there were other John Gillilands born in Illinois at the same time.

From The Washington Times
Washington, D. C.
13 April, 1908

JOHN B. GILLILAND DEAD; 
WAS COMPOSITOR AT G. P. O.
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   John D. Gilliland, aged sixty, a compositor in the job division at the Government Printing Office, died at his apartments in the Vincetta, 337 Maryland avenue southwest, yesterday at noon, after an illness of several weeks with stomach trouble.
   Mr. Gilliland was a native of Springfield, Ill., and came to Washington from Peoria, Ill., about six years ago. He is survived by his wife, four married daughters, and one son, Roy, about twenty years of age.
   The funeral services will be held tomorrow at Lee’s undertaking establishment, after which the body is to be cremated.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010