Kate’s notes: There is a substantial Gilliland family presence in Cooke County, Texas.  A search for Gilliland burials there revealed a Quintan Gilliland, 1829-1903, buried at Era Cemetery. A 1900 census for Vernon, Wilbarger County, TX shows James A. Gilliland, 40, and wife Clemmetta, 33, with the following children: Mary A, James C., Austin, Ruth and Lora E. Also in the household is James’ father. Quintan, 69. Both father and son were of Tennessee birth. 

Chillicothe Valley News
Chillicothe, Texas
3 July, 1913

ITEMS OF INTEREST
OF TEN YEARS AGO

From the files of the Vernon Hornet, Nov. 20, 1903.
   
J. A. Gilliland was called to Gainesville Sunday by wire to the bedside of his aged father who had a stroke of paralysis. The old gentleman passed away Monday, remains being laid to rest in the old burying grounds in Cooke county. He leaves several grown children and many friends to mourn his demise. Peace to his ashes.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012