Jacob Gilliland

Jacob Gilliland was born in Jackson County, Ohio, April 28, 1827. He married[1st] Lucella White, daughter of the pioneer Daniel White. They had one son, Henry H. who died at the age of there years in 1856. Sadly, Lucella White Gilliland died a year earlier, in 1855, at twenty-three years of age. Jacob married [2nd] Mary Baker, widow of Joshua Welch. Mary Baker Welch ahd four children when she married Jacob: Elizabeth, Louisa, William, and George. The their union were born two children: Jackson and Nathan Gilliland.

Jacob served in the Civil War in Co. I, 140th Ohio N.G. Inf. He died February 25, 1875 at the age of forty-seven. He is buried in the Shumway Cemetery, Harrison Township, beside his first wife and son.