CWCLUBB@aol.com wrote: > There are some surnames out there which are confusing. Is Rev. John Colby > Galloway's wife Hannah Atkins or Aiken? And is William Galloway's wife Sarah > "Harriet" Essary or Ussary? I have seen both of these names spelled either > way on various Galloway Home Pages. Hannah is an AIKEN, AKIN, AKEN, AIKENS, or however you want to spell it at the moment, but I've never seen it with a "T". With Hannah, it normally is spelled AIKEN. I found an interesting article on this couple's daughter in the Whitmire Book by Haskell Pruett. Elizabeth "Besty" Galloway married Allen Logan Hines who died in the Civil War so she then married George Washington Murray. Betsy smoked a clay pipe and made reed baskets "art likely handed down from neighboring Cherokees". Anyway, it also talks about the "Reverend" part of Rev. John C. Galloway. "Her father's home near Toxaway was used for services for the first Bapist Mission in the region. Out of this mission was organized the first Baptist Church in the region, known as Cathey's Creek Baptist Church. one of the first revivals hld was in the summertime, under a spreading poplar tree on Esquire Paxtion's farm. The church records show that "Betsy" was one of ten baptized at the close of the revivial, before she was married." The question is which Toxaway was the home near? The first Toxaway was a small Cherokee village just on the Sc side of the NC/SC line. The second Toxaway was what is now Old Toxaway southwestish of Rosman. The third Toxaway is Lake Toxaway where millionairs live. We also now have North Toxaway - probably connected with a church split from Lake Toxaway Baptist, and East Toxaway, probably because Roger Raxter didn't want his Billiard/Ice Cream Parlor to be confused with a business for the millionairs. I would guess it was the Old Toxaway Toxaway as John's sons William & Thomas are said to have built a huge house together near present day Old Toxaway Baptist Church. As for Sarah Ussary/Essary - spell it however you want to as long as it matches the phonetic spelling. The 1804 Walton County GA census lists Thomas Ussary, so that was apparently the local spelling at least according to Reuben Allen. Just don't bother asking how Thomas is related to Sarah as I have no idea. -- Linda Hoxit Raxter lraxter@citcom.net See Indexed Western North Carolina Cemetery Surveys http://www.geocities.com/~alextreehouse related to at least half the county - at least once ; )