Knox County.
About 70 something miles southeast of Wichita Falls lies this small farming community. Gilliland is probably the smallest town I’ve found so far on my drives to and from the Panhandle. A wild guess of about 20 people live here. I could live here.
Anna Surface
February 4, 2008 at 7:49 am
Wichita Falls is old stomping grounds for me. Hmm… I don’t remember Gilliland. Now that is an unusual vehicle… Part bus and part farm truck. Neat capture.
dwp
February 4, 2008 at 8:55 pm
That’s………..interesting.
joyce
August 23, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Hi:
Hey, could you tell me; was there a sign that said “welcome to Gilliland Texas”? I want to visit a town with my own name welcoming “me”.
S. Gilliland
March 29, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I visited Gilliland Texas out of curiosity and because of the family name. My wife and I walked their beautifully kept cemetary in hopes of finding family names without success. There are no Gillilands in the Gilliland cemetary that we could find. It was rather surprising not to find at least one Gilliland. It appeared at one time there was a thriving small community with a nice school and several small stores. I wondered if maybe Gilliland Texas was a dust bowl casuality? There is a Gilliland Baptist Church and the Gilliland Community center which are still is use today. I would enjoy hearing of the History of this town with such a nice and usual name.
S. Gilliland
March 29, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I did find more on “the handbook of texas online” about the history of gilliland texas.
David M. GILLILAND
July 23, 2009 at 12:40 am
I David Gilliland (661-587-7949)contract electrical work in Bakersfield, CA 93306, USA. Website has some info. We are interested in geneolgy research. George Hiram GILLILAND (My paternal grandfather) migrated from Post City, Texas to Animas, New Mexico ca 1913, worked his home stead until migrating to Castac, Calif, Los Angeles County, Died 1972 El Monte, Calif, LA County.
R. Redding
February 7, 2012 at 3:45 pm
My Grandparents were from Gilliland Tx.. and my parents went to the Big Gilliland school. I spent most of my life there. Riding horses, plowing, cattle and building fence.. Wouldnt trade it for anything. Just wish I could move back and raise my kids there. The Navratil’s and Miller’s are the family names.
Mickey Maguire
April 11, 2012 at 10:09 pm
My family is from Gilliland. My great grandfather was Olie Olsen, who was the first postmaster. I was last there about 5 years ago. The house on the western end of town that Olie built is was still there, but starting to deteriorate. My grandmother (Kallybel Olsen Snow)and mother (Elsie Snow Maguire)were both born in the kitchen of this house and I remember spending weeekends there with my grandparents during havest time. The house that my grandfather (Claud SNow) built is all but gone now, just a few old overgrown walls. My mother and grandparents and aunt are all buried at the Gilliland Cemetary. The town has a “holy” feel to it for me: I never actually lived there but that’s where I come from. There are also a lot of SNow and Olsen family members buried in nearby Truscott. They’ll probably bury me in that red dirt one day.