The Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona
5 January, 1937

J. C. Gilleland Rites Set Today

   Funeral services for John C. Gilleland, Arizona resident 58 years and participant in the Tonto basin cattle feud, will be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon in Memory chapel of the A. L. Moore and Sons mortuary. 
   The Rev. H. L. Faulkner, his son-in-law, will officiate and interment will be in Forest Lawn cemetery.
   Mr. Gilleland, a pioneer cattle man and rancher and once a deputy sheriff of Gila county, died Sunday in his home, 619 North Fifth street, after a lengthy illness. He was 78 years old.
   He was the first man to be wounded in the bloody Tonto basin hostilities and was one of the last survivors. He had resided here since retiring eight years ago.
   Surviving are three sons, Ray, Frank and Charles, a daughter, Mrs. Faulkner, and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Phelps, all of Phoenix; a brother, Daniel, Dewey; and two other sisters, Mrs. Florence Morse, Apache Junction, and Mrs. Nancy [Houses], Upland, California.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012

Notes: 
1.	According to the 1920 census for Phoenix, John Gilleland was Texas-born, as were his parents. His wife, the former Laura Hazelton, was born in Oregon; her father and mother were born in New York and Arkansas, respectively.
2.	The Gillelands had another son, Earl, listed in the 1900 census for Maricopa County, who must have passed away.
3.	The forename of the married daughter, Mrs. Faulkner, was Rita.