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John Gilliland (Hopkins Co., and Christian Co., KY, farmer and tavern keeper)

b. 1811-06-10 d. 1882-07-03

Hopkins County and Christian County, Kentucky, farmer and tavern keeper. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Jane Armstrong Gilliland in Christian County, Kentucky, on March 3, 1836. Father of Thomas H. Gilliland, Martha J. Gilliland, Sarah A. Gilliland, Margaret H. Gilliland, William P. S. Gilliland, and Mary A. Gilliland. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer and tavern keeper in Christian County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 54B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 585.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 260B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Scates Mill, p. 557B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film #000465562, p. 137.

Find A Grave, "John Gilliland (1811-1882)," Memorial #36584684, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36584684 (accessed October 27, 2020).

Citation

Gilliland, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200798 (November 12, 2026).

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