Kate’s Notes:  Michael Bright Gillilan, born to Nathan Gilliland and Ruth Campbell, was the husband of Frances Jane Kincaid, who died in 1893 at Greenbrier County. The couple had five children:  Elizabeth Virginia, Susan Ruth, Margaret Louise, Mary Renick and Nathan Moffett. All survived Michael with the exception of Elizabeth Virginia, who died in 1841 at the age of 8 months.

Staunton Spectator, Volume 61, Number 40
Staunton, Virginia
17 June 1884

GILLILAN. – On the 8th inst., at his temporary residence in Lewisburg, W. Va., of paralysis, Mr. Michael B. Gillilan, in his 70th year. His remains were interred in the grave-yard at Falling Spring.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013