Kate’s notes: This is an unusual case where a Gilleland became a Gilliland. Sarah (Johnson), the widow of John Berrisford Gilleland, took as her second husband Samuel Gilliland, who became a widower upon the death of his wife, Sarah Krouskop. Hence, for a time the previously unrelated Gillilands and Gillelands were a blended family.
    The wills of both of Sarah’s husbands, Samuel Gilliland and John Berrisford Gilleland, are archived in the Gilliland Trails library. A more extensive exploration of this genealogy may be found on the Gilliland Trails forum in the thread, John B Gilleland under “Gilliland Families of the U.S. and Canada”.

The Will of Sarah Gilliland
Jackson County, Ohio
September, 1874

Source:
Ohio Probate Records
Jackson County, Ohio 
Wills 1872-1885, Vol B
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Sarah Gilliland Deceased

Be it remembered that on the 5th day of September AD 1874 was filed in the Probate Court of Jackson County Ohio the following Will to wit. In the name of the Benevolent Father of all, I Sarah Gilliland of Jackson County Ohio, being of sound mind and memory, and conscious of the uncertainty of life, do Make and publish this my last Will and testament:
Item 1st  It is my Will that all my debts and funeral expenses be first paid.
Item 2nd  I give and bequeath to my beloved grand daughter Mary Stephenson one good bedstead, feather bed and bedding for the same.
Item 3rd  All the balance of my property, real and personal, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughters Elgina L. Stephenson and Elizabeth J. Beatty to be equally divided between them.
Item 4th  I hereby Nominate and appoint Andrew J. Dever Executor of this my last Will and testament,  and I hereby revoke all former Wills by me made. I desire that no appraisment and no sale of my personal property be made, and that the Probate Court direct the omission of the same.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 12th day of August AD 1874
                                                                                       Sarah Gilliland  {Seal}
Signed and acknowledged by said Sarah Gilliland as her last Will and testament in our presence, and Signed by us in his presence, this 12th day of August 1874
                                                                                       Irvine Dungan
                                                                                       G. M. Vickers
And on said 5th day of September AD 1874 was filed in said Court the following testimony, to wit, The State of Ohio Jackson County ss  Jackson Probate Court, Probate of the last Will of Sarah Gilliland deceased, presented on the 5th day of September AD 1874. Personally appeared in open Court Irvine Dungan and G. M. Vickers the subscribing witnesses of the last Will and Testament of Sarah Gilliland deceased who being duly sworn according to law to Speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in relation to the Execution of said Will depose and say, that they were present at the Making of said Will, and at the request of the deceased subscribed their names to said Will as witnesses in the presence of the deceased, and of each other; that they saw the said Sarah Gilliland deceased sign and Seal said Will, and heard her acknowledge the same to be her last Will and Testament, that the said Sarah Gilliland was at the time of Making, signing and Sealing of said Will of legal age and of sound and disposing mind and Memory and under no undue or unlawful restraint whatsoever
                                                                                       Irvine Dungan
                                                                                       G. M. Vickers
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 5th day of September A.D. 1874
And on said 5th day of September AD 1874 was made by said Court the following order, to wit, In the Matter of the last Will and testament of Sarah Gilliland dec’d, Order of Probate. This day the last Will and Testament of Sarah Gilliland late of Jackson County Ohio deceased was duly produced in open Court by Andrew J. Dever the Executor named in said Will, and offered for Probate, And thereupon Irvine Dungan and G. M. Vickers the Subscribing witnesses to said Will personally appeared in open Court, and on their oaths testified to the due execution of said Will which testimony was reduced to writing, and by them respectively subscribed and filed with said Will, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court from said testimony, that Will was duly attested and executed, and that said Testator at the time of executing said Will was of legal age, of sound and disposing mind and memory, and under no undue or unlawful restraint whatsoever. It is ordered by the Court that said Will be, and the same is hereby admitted to Probate, and together with said testimony and this order be recorded in the Record of Wills in this Court.
                                                                                       Jno J. [C.] Evans  Probate Judge

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