Kate’s notes:   I believe the father of this subject was Richard L. Gilliland who, according to the 1900 census for Oahu, was born in Hawaii about 1866. He stated that his parents were born in “America” but that his race is Polynesian. At the time of the census he and his wife Lizzie had four children; sons R. L., Jr., John R. and Frank C, and daughter Helen.

The Independent
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
2 July, 1896

    The sympathies of THE INDEPENDENT are extent to Mr. and Mrs. Gilliland and family in the loss of their fourth and youngest son, Otto, who died of cholera infantum yesterday morning. The infant was buried in the afternoon with the rites of the Catholic church in the same grave with his grandmother.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012