Kate’s notes: A biography of Richard Hill Gillilan, along with genealogical information, may be found at the following web site: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/greenbrier/bios/hardesty/g4450002.txt
   Richard Hill Gillilan is buried at Frankford Cemetery, just north of Lewisburg in Greenbrier County. A report on Frankford Cemetery may be found in the Gilliland Trails library.

Staunton Spectator, Volume 69, Number 20
Staunton, Virginia
6 January 1892

GILLILAN—At his home at Frankford, Greenbrier county, W.Va., December 25th, Richard H. Gillilan, Esq., in the78th year of his age. He was twice married, his first wife being Miss Mary Handly, by whom be had four children—Mr. Chas. W. Gillian, Mrs. Cyrus H. McClung, Mrs. Wallace W. Beard, of Pocahontas, and Mrs. John Stuart, now of Kansas—all of whom, with his second wife, who was the widow of the late Andrew Beard, survive him.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013