Kate’s Notes: In the 1910 census for Nemaha County, Nebraska, four-year-old Reed Gilliland is listed as the son of William and Victoria Gilliland, ages 47 and 38, respectively. Reed’s father, a farmer, was born in Missouri while his grandfather was a native of Indiana. In 1910 the Gillilands had three other sons: Clark, 13; Floyd, 12; and Joseph, 8. They also had a daughter Mamie, 6. By 1920 the widowed Victoria was sharing her home with children Mamie, Joseph and Reed in York County, Nebraska.

The Beatrice Daily Sun
Beatrice, Nebraska
2 May, 1933

OUT OF WORK
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OMAHA, May 2 (AP) -- Post-mortem examination by Dr. S. McCleneghan, coroner’s physician, today revealed that Reed C. Gilliland, 27, formerly of York, Neb., died of poison. A former bus driver, he had been unemployed since January. Gilliland died suddenly Saturday night, a few minutes after complaining to his wife that he had “an awful pain in his heart.” A Doctor pronounced the death due to heart disease. The Gillilands had been married only nine months.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010