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James Hampton Kuykendall, "Reminiscences of Early Texans," The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, vol. 7, no. 1, July 1903, p. 29. Robert Kuykendall was not only Joseph's brother, but, according to an apparently well-researched family history which cites records in Arkansas, he also was related to Gilleland by virtue of being married to his sister. Gilleland's brother, James, would shortly come to Austin's colony, as would his mother and her second husband, Nancy and Thomas Williams (see Patricia Gilleland Young and L. Richard Scoggins, The Tree and the Vine (Caldwell, Texas: The Gilleland Endowment, 1993).