This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gillian/ Gilliam Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hV.2ADE/1685 Message Board Post: I am searching for the parents of my great-great-grandmother Mary May Gillian (Gilliam). According to her obit their names were Dowe and Celia Gillian. They died prior to 1850 in Johnson County, Ark. I believe they migrated from Alabama. Dowe was the son of Major M. and Mary "Polly" Gillian. Mary May was born in Johnson County, Arkansas in 1844. Would it be possible that they are buried in Gillian Graves Gap? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I read somewhere ,I think,that Major M. 's family were some of the first settlers in Johnson County.