Cyrus Abner Gilliland and Ada "Addie" Graham

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Husband Cyrus Abner Gilliland ^{1 2}

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           Born: 6 Nov 1865 - Sunville, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: William Kerr Gilliland (1828-1907) 2 4 5
         Mother: Nancy Foster (      -1893) 2 4 6

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       Marriage: 1895 2

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Wife Ada "Addie" Graham ^{2 3}

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           Born: 4 Jan 1868 2
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         Father: James Graham (1838-1894) 7 8 9
         Mother: Sarah "Sally" Lincoln (Abt 1844-1912) 8

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Children

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1 M William Foster Gilliland ^{2 3}

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           Born: 2 Apr 1895 2
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2 M James Lincoln Gilliland ^{2 3}

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           Born: 18 Sep 1896 2
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3 F Henrietta Gilliland ²

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         Status: Adopted

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General Notes: Husband - Cyrus Abner Gilliland

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He had the advantage of home training under parents of marked intelligence, and began his first term of teaching public school Nov. 6, 1882, his seventeenth birthday, at Mount Pleasant, in Canal Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania. During the next fifteen years he continued teaching in the winter, working on farms in the summer season, and in 1896 entered the employ of the South Penn Oil Company as title examiner in Kentucky and Tennessee, while thus engaged making his headquarters at Livingston, Tennessee. Later he was transferred to the West Virginia field, where he examined titles for the South Penn Oil Company during the development of the great West Virginia oil field, and he was later engaged in that capacity by the United Natural Gas Company of Oil City, whither he removed about 1904.
Mr. Gilliland was thoroughly public-spirited in his cooperation in securing the benefits of efficient government, his particular service being in the improvement of educational facilities. He was the oldest member in point of service on the Oil City school board in 1919, of which he was a member more than twelve years, and was the chairman of the building committee, acting in that ca-pacity during the year 1915, when the Junior high school building was erected. [CAB, 893]

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1056.

2 Helen M. Snyder, Genealogy of Robert Beatty 1760-1823 (Franklin, PA: Self-published.), Pg 91.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 893.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 631.

5 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1055, 1060.

6 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1060.

7 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 741.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 589.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 905.