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Below is a family biography included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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GILLILAND, W. E., Physician; residence, Coatsburg (son of Wm. P. and L. Gilliland); was born in Morgan county, Ill., Jan. 1, 1833; came to this county in March, 1841; married Miss Sarah E. Moyer. She was born in Westmoreland county, Penn., Jan. 14, 1836. They have five children: Annie L., John O., Henry L. (deceased), Minnie M., and Willie H. He held the office of Town Clerk in Gilmer township. His father and mother were natives of Kentucky. They emigrated to Morgan county, Ill., in 1827; lived there fourteen years; thence to Adams county, where they still live — his father at the age of seventy-three, and his mother seventy, and have lived together over fifty-two years, and are in good health, and well can be claimed as pioneers of the State, being in Morgan county when there were not over twenty in habitants there. The doctor remembers when Jacksonville was not larger than Coatsburg. He commenced the study of medicine, with John T. Gilmer; also, studied with Dr. J. W. Bonney until 1869, when he attended the St. Louis Medical College, where he graduated in 1870, since which time he has been practicing in Coatsburg.
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This family biography is one of 1444 biographies included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. View the complete description here: The History of Adams County, Illinois
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