This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gilliland Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8745 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, 27 Sept 1878 re-printed - 24 Dec 1931, p. 1, c. 3-6 Fire – Burning of the John Gilliland gin on the Holtzclaw bridge road, 10-miles northwest. Gilliland’s sons narrowly escaped with their lives.