Kate’s Notes: The condition of the original material was poor, so any portions in doubt have been placed within brackets. Corrections are welcomed. Some genealogical notes follow the obituary.
 
From The Abilene Reporter-News
Abilene, Texas
17 April, 1948

Baird Resident for
60 Years Succumbs
 
   BAIRD, April 16. (RNS) -- Mrs. Nettie Gilliland, 75, died at 5:50 p.m. Friday at Callahan County Hospital. She had been in ill health for the past year, and seriously ill about a month.
   Funeral will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Baird Presbyterian Church by the Rev. S. P. Collins, pastor. Burial is to be in Ross Cemetery under direction of Wylie Funeral Home.
   Mrs. Gilliland was born Aug. 6, 1872, and lived in Baird the past 60 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, J. Y. Gilliland*, who died in [1923] and a son, Royce Gilliland*, who died in 1944.
   Survivors are a son, Jack Gilliland of Baird, four grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Mollie Tucker of Scotland, Texas.
 
-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010

*According to census records, Joseph Y. Gilliland, a stock farmer, was born in June of 1859. The 1880 census for Callahan County is extremely interesting. On page 3 for the Sixth Precinct a number of Gilliland families are listed, some living on their own homesteads and others living or working among other families. The adult Gilliland males list Tennessee as their place of birth. Joseph's widowed mother Rebecca was recorded as a housekeeper at the home of Chris Edwards. In the 1900 census Joseph and Nettie were living next door to his widowed sister-in-law, Martha Gilliland.
* Royce Fraser Gilliland was born November 10, 1895 and died October 8, 1944. Information from Royce's WWI Draft registration card and Texas Death Index.
   More information on the pedigree of these Gillilands may be found at this link: http://users.boardnation.com/~gillilandtrails/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=31 (Gilliland Trails forum thread, “Gilliland family, Callahan County, Texas”. )