At 07:10 PM 1/5/99 -0500, Linda Hoxit Raxter wrote: >Put on another pot of coffee - this is a long one. The ice finally >melted so I went to play at the courthouse today. Oh, this is gonna be a good one, I can tell. Got my coffee; let's head in... >Rufus McLelland Galloway b. 08APR1868 Wolf Mountain Wolf Mountain - Jackson County, right? >Daddy - Clifford Galloway Mommy - Panata Owen >Died Boyd twp - 14OCT1940 - Chaleocyntitic(?) acute with stones and >jendice >Buried Enon And moved later to Toxaway Baptist Church Cemetery. >Samuel Roscoe Galloway b. 14FEB1884 Jackson County, NC >Daddy - Clifford Galloway Mommy - Pernetta Owens >Died Hogback twp - 05DEC1964 - Heart Disease >Buried Macedonia Cemetery > >Wed (no middle name) Galloway b. 14JUL1887 Jackson County, NC >Daddy - Cliffoed(their typo) Galloway Mommy - Pernelia Owen >Died Cathey's Creek twp - 07NOV1966 - Carcinoma Prostate This would be Wedia G. Galloway. What kind of name is Wedia for a boy?!?!?!?!!! Wonder where he was buried... >Remember, we all have the little note >that Clifford Galloway married L.P. Owens 08JUN1864 in Transylvania >County. I've always used this as a marriage bond date, only putting in the data that Clifford and Penetta were married sometime in June of 1864. >One other factor to consider. Pennetta O Galloway & Clifford Galloway >are not buried together at Macedonia, though Pennetta's headstone >mentions her husband. Clifford died first. He died in 1915 and is >buried next to a child's grave with a fieldstone. His son, E. Phylar >died two years later and was buried next to him. That pretty much >filled up that space, so I think that the separation was primarily once >of logistics. But certainly Pernetta was likely in a position to insist >that the remaining space beside her husband be left for her if she >really wanted to be there. Hmmm, makes me wonder what possible comflict there was.... Hmmmm, maybe I'm assuming to much.... Hmmm, I've gotten in trouble doing that before! >The child buried next to Clifford may be the missing Catherine. I think I'm going to assume (oops!) that someone else gave the census information, besides someone in the household I mean. Funny thing, my grandmother never knew who her ggrandparents were, and considering that Eli died only a few years before she was born, you'd think that she'da heard something about that. Even ol' Cousin Lou Rigdon Myers (my dad's first cousin) didn't know, and she's a storehouse of stories. Linda, *you need to get with her* about her stories about Shad Dempsey, and about ggrandpa Rufus going to South America lumbering (at least that's the story - wonder if there was something else about that - better ask Lou). Of course, Rufus did move the family to Gastonia about 1920 or so. A little dislocation there. I never found out the exact date. At least it was before 1923, because that was when my dad was born, five months after the wedding in York, South Carolina. It was Cousin Lou who pointed me to some of the old cemeteries, saying that so-and-so was "buried up at Macedonia", or "he's buried up in Glouster somewhere". Least that's how I got started, before I met you, Linda! Now, I know I'm related to Linda, Shawna, and Marty, so that covers just about all of Transylvania, Jackson, and Macon counties, with spillovers elsewhere, and that makes only about 100+ cemeteries to visit. Just rambling, Philip