2004-11-20
Letter - Robert Roy Gilliland
Michael L. Gililland, "Transcript and Comments on a letter written by Robert Roy GILLILAND, January 23, 1952." Internet <gililland.net/Stories/doc_005.htm>.
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Extracts:
- Robert Roy GILLILAND (GILILLAND) ... son of John Sanford GILILLAND.
- to his nephew, Ernest Earl GILILLAND, [son of] Almer Lee GILILLAND ... Shreveport, La.
- "Grand father was named Allen Johnson Gilliland, born in Kentucky 1818 and died in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, 1887. His first wife was Nancy Stephens. She was born in Virginia in 1816 and died in McKinney, Texas, in 1860."
- "To this union there was born 5 children. John Sanford Gilliland, Porter Gilliland, (died at 19 in 1870); Lydia Gilliland (died but do not know when or where), Serena Gilliland and Dora Gilliland [sic]."
- "... he moved to Pagosa Springs, and took with him Serena and Dora, who was a deaf mute. Before going to Pagosa Springs he evidently married some one whose first name was Mattie. Serena also married G. T. Smith, because they all reached Pagosa Springs together. The woman he married was the half sister of G. T. Smiths step mother. To this last union there was born a girl named Kate and two boys Doc and Jim."
- "Serena married Smith and they had 10 children, who I will discuss later. Kate married Frank Cooley and moved to Durango."
- "The boys Jim and Doc moved to Chama, New Mexico, and both are dead. Doc had no children but Jim left 2 boys."
