Kate's Notes: According to the 1900 census for Miles City, Custer County, Montana, Florence was the daughter of Huston* and Elizabeth Gilliland, the former born in Missouri and the latter, Illinois-born. The household in 1900 consisted of Huston and Elixabeth with children Florence, 18; Mannie, 16; and Newton, 10. The children are all recorded as born in Nebraska.
   To be honest, when I looked at the original census image it appeared to me that the father may also have been named Newton but others viewing the document interpret it as Huston. I suspect my interpretation is the correct one, as the obituary for Mr. Gilliland referred to him as "J. N. Gilliland". That he had a son named Newton is corroborating evidence.
   Florence and her husband Joseph had a daughter, recorded as Kirdsty in the 1910 census and as Curtley in the 1920 census. Florence's husband died in 1919, just hours before her father died of a massive stroke. The father's obituary may be found among the files of the Gilliland Trails library.

The Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana
26 September, 1901

Choisser-Gilliland.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.

    Miles City, Sept. 25. -- Joseph Choisser, of the well known firm of Thorton & Choisser of Forsyth, was married here to Miss Florence Gilliland, a fair young woman of Miles City, at 5 o’clock this morning. They left on the early train for the west, to spend their homeymoon.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010