Kate’s notes: The maiden name of Mrs. Robert  James Gilliland was Julie Ann Turnbull. For more information on this family, see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~elsinger/gilliland/p5.htm
    The obituary for one son, Dr. R. J. Gilliland, is also posted to the GT library. Please note there are some variations in spelling for the names of the children between the two obituaries; e.g., though one daughter’s name was given here as Nena the correct spelling should be Nina.

The Pickens Sentinel
Pickens, South Carolina
31 January, 1918

Mrs. J. R. Gilliland Dead.

    Mrs. J. R. Gilliland died at her home in Easley on Tuesday, January 22, in the 81st year of her life. Funeral services were conducted Thursday, 24th, at the residence by Rev. D. H. Hiott, assisted by Rev. C. D. Waller, and interment took place in the West View cemetery at Easley. She was among the first settlers at Easley, a member of the First Baptist church there and well known.  Mrs. Gilliland was the mother of the late Dr. R. J. Gilliland and is survived by the following children: Dr. Will Gilliland of Norfolk, Va.; Mrs. Morton Nichols of Atlanta, and Miss Nena Gilliland of Easley.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013