Kate’s Notes: Sarah Johnson Marsh Gilliland was the wife of Benjamin Franklin Gilliland, the latter the fifth child of Sarah Hopkins and Adam B. Gilliland and a blacksmith at Venice, Ohio. The couple, who were married June 27, 1854 moved to Littleton, Illinois, where they built a cabin and blacksmith shop and started a family. They later moved to La Harpe, Illinois, where B. F. died. Sarah then moved to Nebraska with several of her children but when she died at Beatrice, NE, her body was returned to La Harpe for burial beside her husband.
   Children of B. F. and Sarah Gilliland were: Harriet Fidella, b. May 28, 1855, married Edwin Coulson; George Everett, b. Oct 8, 1860 and d. Jan 27, 1887, unmarried; Sarah Elizabeth, b. Dec. 10, 1862,  married to lawyer Albertus Homer Kidd; Hannah Josephine, b. Aug. 30, 1865, d. 1939, unmarried; Hosea Franklin, b. May 5, 1868, married to Mae Freeman; Charles Adam, b. Apr. 22, 1871, d. 1938, unmarried; and Samuel Archibald, b. Apr. 19, 1874. Two sons who died in infancy are buried at Littleton, Ill.
   This family is associated with the Gillilands of the Red Oak congregation in Brown County, Ohio. For more information on this line refer to the Gilliland Trails forum thread, “The Gillilands of the Red Oak congregation, Ohio”.
   Obituaries for two of Sarah’s children, Josephine and Charles, can also be found in the collection of library obituaries, as well as an article in the News Archives concerning her son Samuel A. Gilliland.

The Lincoln Daily News
Lincoln, Nebraska
27 July, 1916

News In Nebraska

BEATRICE, July 27. -- Mrs. Sarah Gilliland, for the past fifteen years a resident of Beatrice, died suddenly at her home in this city some time last night. She had not been in the best of health for the past year, but her condition was not thought to be serious. She was found dead in bed this morning by her son, C. A. Gilliland, and her daughter, Miss Josephine Gilliland. She was eighty years of age and is survived by six children. They are: Mrs. A. H. Kidd, Miss Josephine Gilliland and C. A. Gilliland of Beatrice, Mrs. Coulson of Ft. Collins, Colo., F. H. Gilliland of Ontario, Cal., and S. A. Gilliland of Kansas City, Mo. The remains will be taken to LaHart[sic], Ill., for interment.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010