Are the two gentlemen who wrote the articles still living? Does anyone know how to contact them? Judy ---------- > From: Sherry Osburn <osburn@bellsouth.net> > To: *Galloway Surname List <Galloway-L@rootsweb.com> > Subject: 2 Galloway articles from Facets of Fannin > Date: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 5:55 AM > > GALLOWAY FAMILY > > William Frazier Galloway was the great grandson of William Galloway, > one of the seven stalwart Galloway brothers who came to America from > Ireland through the Philadelphia Port in Pennsylvania in 1741. > William Frazier Galloway was the first of the Galloways to come to the > area that later became Fannin County. > Let us trace some facts about the Galloways. The extreme south of > Scotland is the land of Galloway. The family is of pure Scotch > origin. It was domiciled in the southwest part of Scotland, in the > districts composed of Wigton and Kirkudbright of today. During the > persecution of the Christians in Scotland, some of the Galloways > emigrated across the Irish Sea, settling in County Antrim, Ireland. > The Galloway coat of arms is a globe within a crown and a cross > mounted on top. The globe is surrounded on each side by a stalk of > grain. The word "higher" denoting aspiration, is underneath, and the > whole is within a circle. The Galloway Flail was a formidable war > instrument made of three or four heavy iron rods about a foot in > length, linked together and wielded with a handle. Nothing could > stand before the Flail. It was used widely for defense in their > persecution against the Covenanters. > William Penn established his colony in Pennsylvania in 1681 and > issued a call for seekers of freedom to settle there. The seven > Galloway brothers responded. Said Rev. Robert Simpson in his History > of the Covenanters, page 163, "Sturdier Covenanters existed not in the > Country." Samuel, John, William, James, Peter, Thomas and George > Galloway came to America and settled for a time in Mifflin County near > Logan's big spring in the Kishocoquillas Valley on the Juanita River. > From there they migrated south and west. > Tradition holds that Samuel Galloway's wife Elizabeth was a Graham. > She was killed by Indians in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1755. > Also killed a the same time was the wife of her son, William, and > their two small children. John Galloway, another son of Samuel and > Elizabeth, moved west into Ohio. A son, Samuel, a noted orator and > politician, became Secretary of State of Ohio. > William Frazier Galloway was born in Transylvania County, North > Carolina, July 2, 1802. His wife Levise McClure, was born near > Wallhalla, South Carolina in 1797. > The following land transaction is recorded in Book H, page 95, > Buncombe County, North Carolina (No. 2534) and was probably made by > William Frazier Galloway's father: "....a tract of land containing > 300 acres lying and being in the county of Buncombe, on both sides of > the East Fork of the French Broad River...on the 29th day of November > in the 39th year of our Independence in the year of our Lord, 1814. " > (Registered 25th November, 1815) > William Frazier Galloway and wife Levise were the first white people > to settle at the mouth of Hot House Creek on the banks of the Toccoa > River in the summer of 1822. The land was then a part of the Cherokee > Nation, and was called Cherokee County, Georgia. In Harbert Harvey > Galloway's World History Book was this information: "William Frazier > Galloway was assigned by Governor John Clark to travel to North > Cherokee County as a blacksmith for the Cherokee Indians." President > Andrew Jackson approved money to have north Georgia surveyed in 1833. > Gilmer county was formed from part of the original Cherokee County, as > was Union County. In 1854 the 8th District, Second Section was taken > from Gilmer County, and the 1st District, Second Section from Union > County to form Fannin. Harbert Galloway also stated that James Walker > Fannin, for whom the county was named, was a friend of William Frazier > Galloway and lived at Sweet Gum (Union/Fannin/) County for a time > before he went to Texas and lost his life in the Texas War for > Independence. > William Frazier Galloway remained a blacksmith for the Cherokees > until the time of their removal n 1838. He lived out most of his life > at the site where he had settled (he may have returned to North > Carolina for short intervals). He and his wife Lavise were buried in > the Galloway Cemetery overlooking the Toccoa River where he settled. > She died in 1873 and he in 1883. > This land transaction is recorded in Book E, Gilmer County, Georgia, > 1840-1842: Alexander H. McDaniel (pages 417-18): June 26, 1840. > State of Georgia, Gilmer County, between Alexander H. McDaniel of the > County of Chatham, state of Georgia, of the one part, and William F. > Galloway of the county of Gilmer and state of Georgia of the other > part....said Alexander H. McDaniel, for $75...8th District, 2nd > Section of original Cherokee County, now Gilmer County, known by the > No. 100 lot containing 160 acres. Sheriff's sale. Witnesses, E.W. > Chastain, and J.S. Chastain, JP. Recorded March 22, 1842. Joseph > Pickett, Clerk." Lot 100 was land lying at the mouth of Hot House > Creek on the Toccoa River in present day Fannin County. > Frazier and Levise McClure Galloway had three sons: Henry, born in > 1824; Harbert Harvey, born November 13, 1826; and Asbury, born in > 1830. > Harbert Harvey Galloway married Mary M. Wikle in 1847. Eight > children were born to them: William Henry (October 29, 1849-September > 26, 1875, did not marry); Martha Caroline (February 24, 1851-April 4, > 1918, married Ross Ellis); John DeKalb (September 23, 1853-July 20, > 1933, married California Jane Harper); Maney Josephine (August 11, > 1856-February 25, 1929, married John Vestal); Jesse Winfield (May 25, > 1858-January 8, 1941, married Catharine Imenda Wilson); James > Lycurgus (June 8, 1862-June 2, 1905, married Mary Ann Barker); and > George Washington (August 11, 1864-June 2, 1905, married Mend > Bennett). Harbert Galloway was a farmer and a history buff. He wrote > The World History Book. He is buried in the Galloway Cemetery. > Harbert's seventh child, James Lycurgus Galloway, born Jun 8, 1862, > married Mary Ann Barker. Lycurgus was a farmer, owned a general > store, was postmaster at Galloway Station Post Office, and was tax > collector for Fannin County at the time of his death June 2, 1905. He > was buried in the Galloway Cemetery. Lycurgus and Mary Ann Galloway > were parents of Charlie, Hayden, Luther, Edd, Dolly, George, Minnie, > Fred and Bessie. > William Frazier Galloway's descendants are active in community > affairs in Fannin County today. Some are listed here: Wilma Galloway > Lawrence, postmaster, McCaysville; Claude Galloway, retired teacher; > Bernice Galloway Ash, wife of retired Fannin County Commissioner; > Pearl Galloway Ballew, wife of retired Baptist minister; James R. > Galloway, Baptist minister; Evelyn Waters Panter, Board of Voter > Registration; Lois Scott, retired, Fannin County Nursing Home; Charles > F. Galloway, magistrate, Fannin County, January 1, 1972-December 31, > 1984; magistrate, City of McCaysville, January 8, 1975-January 31, > 1986. > -----------by Charles F. Galloway > Copied from Facets of Fannin, A History of Fannin County, page > 315/316, article #F220 > > > > GALLOWAY, WILLIAM FRAZIER > > Leroy Weese, born in Fannin County, Georgia, now living in Uniontown, > Ohio provides a summary of his many years of research on the Galloway > Family of Fannin County. He found records linking the family to their > European roots while he lived for a while in Northern Ireland. > Galloway refers to the southwestn hill district in Scotland. The > name goes back to the ancient race of Picts and means "shite hill > face". Some Galloway families were among the Scots resettled in > Northern Ireland in the early seventeenth century. The name is still > common in Scotland and Northern Ireland. > William Galloway, the Scotch-Irish ancestor of most of the Galloways > of Fannin County, came to Virginia from Northern Ireland before the > Revolutionary War. Back in Ireland, his father was Joabe and his > grandfather was Absalom Galloway. William eventually settled in > Buncombe (now Transylvania) County, North Carolina where he bought > land in 1814. Today Galloway is the second most common name in > Transylvania County. > William Frazier Galloway, born 1802 in Virginia, a son of the > immigrant, married Lavisa McClure, born in 1797 in Pendleton District, > South Carolina. They settled on the Toccoa River in what is now > Fannin County, Georgia , long before the removal of the Cherokee. > Their children remembered Indian playmates. Census records indicate > they were in Georgia when their son, Asbury, was born in 1830. > William Frazier and Lavisa McClure Galloway had three sons: (1) > Harbard Harvey, born in 1826, married Mary Malinda Wikle, born in > 1818, daughter of Henry and Anna Bandy Wikle. The Wikles were among > the earliest settlers in the Cartecay Community in Gilmer County, > Georgia. The Galloways living in Fannin County and the Copper Basin > are mainly their descendants. Harbard and Mary Malinda had these > children: William Henry, born in 1849, died unmarried at age > twenty-six; Martha Caroline, born in 1851, married Ross Ellis; Lavisa > Ann, born in 1852, died as an infant; John DeKalb, born in 1853, > married California Jane "Callie" Harper, daughter of William and > Narcissa Ann Russell Harper; Nancy Josephine, born in 1856, married > John Vestal; Jesse Winfield, born in 1858, married Catharine Imanda > "Mandia" Wilson, daughter of John V. and Mary Willson; Elizabeth, born > in 1860, died as an infant; James Lycurgus, born n 1862, married Mary > Ann "Sis" Barker, daughter of Thomas Grady Barker and a daughter of > Benjamin Burgess; and George Washington, born in 1864, married Amanda > "Mend" Bennett. > (2) The second son of William Frazier and Lavisa Galloway was > Asbury, born in 1830 in Georgia. He has no known descendants in > Fannin County. > (3) Their third son was Mitchell, born in 1832 in Georgia, with > no known descendants in Fannin. > John DeKalb and Callie Harper Galloway had the following issue: > Francis Marion, born in 1878, married Alice Chastain; Flora Ella, born > in 1881, married Lee Chastain; Dixie Naomi, born in 1883, married Sam > Dunn; Sam, born in 1884, married, first Annie Matthews, and second, > Ophelia Griggs; Julia Mae, born in 1885, married Wilbur Wehunt; Nora > Emma, born in 1887, married Thomas Linton Weese, son of Osborne Weese > and Addie Elizabeth Cabe; Amanda Adaline "Addie", born in 1888 married > Sidney Callihan; Hariate Jane "Hattie", born in 1890; Lillie Della; > and John Claude, born in 1900, married Nola Dilbeck. > James Lycurgus "Curg" and Mary Ann "Sis" Barker Galloway had these > children: Hayden Blaine "Pink" born in 1884, married Hattie White; > Luther Thomas, born in 1888, married Ethel Davis; Edward Frazier "Ed", > born in 1890, married Minnie A. Chastain; Charles Harvey, born in > 1892, married Edgel Denny; Margaret Malinda "Minnie", married Charles > Shell; George Dewey, born in 1896, married Bessie Smith; Dollie > Madison, born in 1898, died in 1903; Fred Morris married Ann > Patterson; and Essie Beula married John Waters. > During the War Between the States, the Galloways fought for or > sympathized with the South. The Galloway family has traditionally > been Democrat in politics and Baptist in religious faith. > > > ------- Doyle R. Harper > > > Copied from Facets of Fannin, A History of Fannin County, page > 316/317, article #F221 > > > > > -- > Sherry in Georgia > osburn@bellsouth.net > > Genealogy - a search for the greatest treasures - our ancestors > > Sherry's Genealogy Home Page - Our Georgia Families: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6370/index.html > Gilmer County, Georgia USGENWEBPage: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6370/gilmer.html > Seminole County, Georgia USGENWEB Page: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6370/seminole.html > Walker County, Georgia USGENWEB Page: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6370/walker.html > Webster County, Georgia USGENWEB Page: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6370/webster.html