This is an excerpt of a message that one of our Pilant cousins (Pam Wellman) posted on our private MyFamily.com site:
"It is with the deepest sadness and regret that I have to inform you of the death of our dear one, Lloyd Ray Timmons. Lloyd died on Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at Tulsa, Oklahoma. His funeral will be held on Saturday, April 3, 2004, at the Alderwoods Heath Funeral Home at 1823 West 51st Street in Tulsa. He will be buried on Monday at the Fort Gibson National Cemetery at Fort Gibson, Oklahoma".
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We descend from John Robert Pilant b. 1808 Hawkins Co TN, d. June 1881 Ozark Co MO buried in the Piland-Norris Cemetery in Ozark Co MO.
John Robert 1st m. Mahala Paynter (8 children) I am descended from this marriage [Nancy Pilant m. Thomas Jefferson Stout].
John Robert 2nd m. Elizabeth Wilcox They also had 8 children; [after he died she married a Fry]. Lloyd descended from this family.
If you are a Pilant cousin/researcher, we would like to welcome you in the search for our Pilant roots. Lloyd was the Administrator for the private MyFamily.com site and I was listed as the co-administrator. If you would like to share info & an invitation to our family site, please contact me.
There are many spellings of our family surname, they were changed for various reasons, the most common one is that the census taker spelled it the way it sounded to them or perhaps a family changed it because of a dispute, which happened. In any case, it could be Piland/Pyland/Pylant/Pilant/Pilaut/Plant etc., so keep your options open on the spellings.
Marilyn Stuart France
mfrance@getgoin.net