Daniel and Precilla Gilleland  |
| Address | County | utm east |
| Milam |
692571 |
| utm zone | utm north |
| Rockdale | 14 | 3401029 | |
| Latitude N | Longitude W | ||
| 30.73918° | 97.06647° |
| Location | Repair Condition |
| 8 mi. west of Rockdale on FM 487, approx. .2 mi. from intersection with FM 1600 | faded |
| Marker Text |
| Among the first Anglo American settlers to come to Texas with colonizer |
| Stephen F. Austin, Daniel (b. 1795) and Precilla Boatwright (b. 1803) Gilleland |
| were members of Austin's Old Three Hundred colony. The couple and their |
| infant daughter, along with relatives in the Kuykendall and Boatwright families, |
| left their homes in Arkansas Territory and arrived in Texas in December 1821. |
| Making his living as a farmer, Daniel Gilleland received land grants in present |
| colorado and austin counties. During the 1830s and 1840s the family moved |
| frequently, farming in Wharton, Fayette, Washington, Harrison, and |
| Montgomery counties. By 1847 they had settled in present Milam County. |
| Daniel Gilleland was instrumental in the growth of the Methodist Church in |
| Texas, assisting several congregations. He and Precilla were the parents of |
| thirteen children, three of whom died in childhood. Six Gilleland sons served in |
| the Confederate army. The family cemetery (2.8 miles SW) was established in |
| 1848 and serves as the final resting place of Daniel and Precilla Gilleland, bot of |
| whom died in 1873 after more than 50 years spent as pioneers in Texas. |
