Thomas Gallaway and Sarah Ghost
Husband Thomas Gallaway 1 2 3
Born: Cal 13 Jul 1813 - Ireland Christened: Died: 4 Jul 1892 Buried: - Pleasantview M. E. Cemetery, Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 4
Father: William Gallaway ( - ) 2 Mother:
Marriage:
Wife Sarah Ghost 1 3 5
Born: 1816 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA Christened: Died: 1901 - Venango Co, PA Buried: - Pleasantview M. E. Cemetery, Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 4
Father: Craft Ghost (1774-1826) 1 Mother: Elizabeth Catherine Fritz (1787-1852) 1
Children
1 M Craft C. Gallaway 3 5
Born: 1842 - Pennsylvania Christened: Died: 1909 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA Buried: - Pleasantview M. E. Cemetery, Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PASpouse: Mary Ellen Atwell (1842-1930) 5
2 M Isaac R. Galloway 5 6 7
Born: 11 Oct 1844 - Mercer Co, PA 3 7 Christened: Died: Jan 1925 7 Buried: - Pleasantview M. E. Cemetery, Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PASpouse: Mary Jane Bonner (1851-1933) 5 8 9 Marr: 14 Mar 1870 9 10
3 M John Fulton Gallaway 2 10
Born: 8 Apr 1849 - Mercer Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: 4 Nov 1917 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA Buried: - Old Log Cemetery, Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 11Spouse: Caroline Hoffman (1852-1934) 5
4 F Mary Galloway 5
Born: Abt 1854 Christened: Died: Bef 1909 Buried:
5 M Elmer Gallaway
Born: 1860 Christened: Died: Buried:
6 F Mary Ellen Galloway 10 12
AKA: Ella M. [Unk] Born: 1860 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 12 Christened: Died: 1938 12 Buried: - Amity-Mt. Irwin Cemetery, Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 13Spouse: Walter Preston Eakin (1858-1935) 12 14 Marr: 14 Jun 1886 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 12
7 F Ann Elizabeth Galloway 5
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1909 Buried:
8 M Lytle Galloway 5
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1909 Buried:
9 F Martha Galloway 5
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1909 Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Thomas Gallaway
He was seventeen years old when he came from Ireland to the United States, where three of his brothers, William, John and Isaac, were already settled, in Mercer and Venango counties, PA. For fifteen years he was a farmer and merchant at Mechanicsville, Venango County, before and during the Civil war, having settled in that vicinity about 1851, on the farm later occupied by his son Isaac. After his sons left home he removed to the town and kept store, spending the remainder of his life there and dying at the age of seventy-eight years. Though he had but seventeen cents at the time of his arrival in this country, he became a very prosperous man. His first purchase of land consisted of two hundred acres in Mercer County, which by his industry was converted into a good farm. He sold it to remove to Irwin Township, Venango County, where the water was better, and though considerable of his property here was new land he transformed it into a valuable farm. He gave a farm to each of his three sons, two receiving parts of the home place and the other a tract two miles distant, while the daughter was given one near Pearl, Venango County. He became an influential resident of the locality, serving many years as a justice of the peace. Politically he was a Democrat, in religious connection a member of the M. E. Church at Pleasant View, one mile north of his home. [CAB, 865]
He came to the United States at the age of seventeen years and landed at New York City with just seventy-five cents in his pocket. He received employment at blasting rock in the construction of the Erie Canal, then worked for a distiller in New York State. He was an industrious man, and of a frugal and saving disposition, and while thus employed accumulated enough money to purchase a farm of 150 acres in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. It was a heavily timbered tract, but little of the land having been cleared. He cleared the farm and lived upon it for a time, then purchased the Ross tract of land, consisting of 300 acres, on which he engaged in stock raising on an extensive scale. He at the same time carried on a general store at Mechanicsville, in Venango County. [HBC 1909, 1435]
General Notes: Wife - Sarah Ghost
Her father's name was "Philip". [HBC 1909, 1436]
1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 985.
2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1435.
3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 865.
4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 1, Irwin, Mineral, & Victory Townships (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1992), Pg 99.
5 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1436.
6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 672, 865.
7 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 7.
8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 672, 866.
9 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 6.
10 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 866.
11 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 1, Irwin, Mineral, & Victory Townships (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1992), Pg 70.
12 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 96.
13 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 1, Irwin, Mineral, & Victory Townships (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1992), Pg 18.
14
Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 549, 866.
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