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. 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