Kate’s notes: The tombstones for both Mary (Handly) and Richard Hill Gillilan are recorded in my report for Frankford Cemetery. According to her tombstone, Mary was 60 years of age when she died. A copy of the marriage bond for Mary and Richard may be found among “Greenbrier Virginia (WV) Marriage Bonds, Part 2”, in the Gilliland Trails library. Richard married for a second time, to Sallie Ann (McClintic) Beard, in 1881.

Staunton Spectator, Volume 55, Number 19
Staunton, Virginia
29 January 1878

GILLILAND.—At  Frankford, Greenbrier co., W. Va., on the 22nd inst., of pneumonia, Mrs. Mary Gilliland, wife of Mr. R. H. Gilliland* aged about 55 years.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013

*This branch of the family spelled the name as Gillilan, though they were descendants of Nathan Gilliland, a pioneer settler of the old Scots-Irish Settlement in Augusta County, Virginia.