Galloway, Thomas b. 14 Jul 1813 Ulster, Antrim County, Ireland d. 04 Jul 1892 Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA: My Damon Genealogy

1813 - 1892 (78 years)

Name	Galloway, Thomas
Birth	14 Jul 1813	Ulster, Antrim County, Ireland [1]
Gender	Male
Immigration	Abt 1830 [2, 3]
Immigration	Apr 1834 [4]
	From Belfast, Ireland to NYC
Census	23 Oct 1850	Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA [5]
Farmer
Census	23 Aug 1860	Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA [6]
Farmer
Census	Jul 1870	Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA [7]
Agent for sale of mowing machines
Census	25 Jun 1880	Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA [8]
Farmer
Death	04 Jul 1892	Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
Burial	Barkeyville, Venango Co., PA [4]
Person ID	I84102	My Damon Genealogy
Last Modified	20 Jan 2022

Father	Galloway, William, b. 1779, Ireland d. PA
Mother	( ), Mary Elizabeth, b. 1799, PA d. Cranberry Twp., Venango Co., PA
Family ID	F31634	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Ghost, Sarah, b. 23 Apr 1816, Clinton Twp., Venango Co., PA d. 05 Dec 1901, Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA (Age 85 years)

Marriage 26 Nov 1840 Jefferon Co., OH

Children

	1. Galloway, Craft Coast, b. 02 Mar 1842, Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA d. 17 Oct 1909, Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA (Age 67 years)
	2. Galloway, Isaac Richardson, b. 11 Oct 1844, Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA d. 15 Jan 1925, Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA (Age 80 years)
	3. Galloway, Ann Elizabeth, b. 25 Dec 1847, Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA d. Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural]
	4. Galloway, John Fulton, b. 08 Apr 1849, Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA d. 04 Nov 1917, Barkeyville, Venango Co., PA (Age 68 years)
	5. Galloway, Mary Eleanor, b. 11 Oct 1860, Venango Co., PA d. 6 Nov 1938, Grove City, Pine Twp., Mercer Co., PA (Age 78 years)

Family ID F31619 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 7 Sep 2020

Event Map

	Birth - 14 Jul 1813 - Ulster, Antrim County, Ireland
	Census - Farmer - 23 Oct 1850 - Wolf Creek Twp., Mercer Co., PA
	Census - Farmer - 23 Aug 1860 - Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
	Census - Agent for sale of mowing machines - Jul 1870 - Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
	Census - Farmer - 25 Jun 1880 - Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
	Death - 04 Jul 1892 - Wesley, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA
	Burial - - Barkeyville, Venango Co., PA

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Documents » Slide Show		1850 U.S. census, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Wolf Creek Twp., p. 452A
		1860 U.S. census, Venango County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Irwin Twp, p. 310
		1870 U.S. census, Venango County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Irwin Twp, p. 324A
		1880 U.S. census, Venango County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Irwin Twp, enumeration district 244, p. 170A
		Galloway, Thomas and Sarah Ghost Marriage Record
		Galloway, Thomas - Will

Notes

From: Volume 2 of Venango County, Pennsylvania: Her Pioneers and People, Embracing a General History of the County, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Charles Almanzo Babcock
Isaac R. Galloway, of Wesley (Mechanicsville), Irwin township, father of Mrs. Hiram C. Foster, was born Oct. u, 1844, in Mercer county, Pa., son of Thomas and Sarah (Ghost) Galloway. Thomas Galloway 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 this vicinity about 1851, on the farm now 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 Thomas Galloway 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 became an influential resident of this 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, where he is buried. Mr. Galloway married Sarah Ghost, a sister of Philip Ghost, of the southern part of Irwin township, and she survived him, reaching a more advanced age. Mr. and Mrs. Galloway became the parents of three sons and one daughter, namely: Craft C. lived on what is now the Fred Hovis farm in Irwin township and died there when he was past sixty years of age; Isaac R. is mentioned below ; John, who obtained a farm adjoining the home place, is now living retired at Barkeyville; Ellen is the wife of Walter Eakins, of Grove City. Thomas Galloway 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, this county.
Isaac R. Galloway inherited all of his father's home place, now having one hundred acres just south of Mechanicsville, as he added to his original holding. It is highly improved and has substantial buildings, Mr. Galloway having erected the present house in 1890 and the barn in 1904, and there is a good vein of coal beneath which he has worked to some extent. He also owns a farm in the Bullion oil field, which yields him considerable royalty from its producing wells. For three or four years, during the oil excitement, Mr. Galloway kept a store at Parker, but farming has been his principal occupation. He has been a public-spirited citizen and has served as constable and in other township offices. In political principle he is a Prohibitionist. His religious connection is with the M. E. Church at Mechanicsville, in which he holds the position of class leader.
On March 14, 1870, Mr. Galloway was married to Mary Jane Bonner. daughter of Archibald Bonner and sister of Harvey Bonner, of Irwin township, and they have had three children, namely: Susann Cyrene is the wife of John Eakins, a lumber manufacturer, of Harrisville, Butler Co., Pa.; Sarah Ellen is the wife of Hiram Clinton Foster; John Alvin, who lives on the home farm, married Clara Adams and has three children, Eugene Isaac, Mildred Catherine and Forrest Allen.

From FindAGrave:
Nat: 7 Oct 1844. Wit: James McKean. Int: 7 Oct 1844. Emigrated from Belfast in Apr 1834 to New York City, age 17. He was a farmer and merchant at Mechanicsville (Wesley] by 1851 and served many years as Justice of the Peace. He was a member of Pleasantview Methodist Church. He lived at Mechanicsville, (Wesley) Venango County, Pennsylvania. Worked on the Erie Canal, and at a NY distiller, He was a farmer, and store merchant. He was also known as Gallaway
From 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, PA, and Representative Citizens by James A. McKee, Pages 1435-1436
JOHN FULTON GALLAWAY, a well known citizen and substantial business man of Hilliard, Butler County, Pennsylvania, is proprietor of the hotel at that village and has a well established business. He was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1849, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Ghost) Gallaway. and a grandson of AA'illiam Gallaway. Thomas Gallaway was born in Ireland and was one of the following children born to his parents: William; John; Thomas; Isaac, who married Eliza Kohlter, daughter of John Kohlter of Mercer County ; and Eliza, deceased. Thomas came to the United States at the age of seventeen years and landed at New York City with just seventy-five cents in liis pocliet. 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. He married there to Sarah Ghost, a daughter of Philip Ghost, of Venango County, and they reared the following children : Craft, who married Mary Ellen Atwell, a daughter of John Atwell of Mercer County, and has three children,-Thomas, Clyde and Elizabeth; Isaac, who married Mary Jane Bonner, a daughter of Archie Bonner of Venango County, by whom he has one son and two daughters,-John, Elizabeth and Susan; John F., whose name heads this sketch; Ann Elizabeth, deceased; Mary, deceased; Lytle, deceased; and Martha, deceased.

Sources

[S130] Death Certificate, Pennsylvania Department of Health, death certificate form V.S. No.5-50M, no. 116942 (1917), John F. Galloway; Bureau of Vital Statistics, Harrisburg; reproduction of an original record by PA State Archives, Harrisburg.
[S730] James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa and Representative Citizens, (Name: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.; Location: Chicago; Date: 1909;), 1435-1436.
[S836] Babcock, Charles Almanzo, Venango County, Pennsylvania: Her Pioneers and People, Embracing a General History of the County, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Volume 2, 865.
[S648] "Find A Grave", Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 4 August 2013), memorial page for Thomas Galloway (1813-1892), Find A Grave Memorial no. 29727115, citing Pleasantview Cemetery, Venango, Venango County, Pennsylvania, created by Ken Galloway.
[S11] 1850 U.S. census, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Wolf Creek Twp., p. 452A (stamped), dwelling 184, family 188, Sarah and Thomas Galloway; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : accessed 22 September 2013); citing National Archives microfilm publication M432_796, images 781-782.
[S582] 1860 U.S. census, Venango County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Irwin Twp, p. 310-311 (stamped), dwelling 1054, family 1028, Sarah and Thomas Galaway [Galloway]; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : accessed 23 September 2013); citing National Archives microfilm publication M653_1189, images 316-317.
[S588] 1870 U.S. census, Venango County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Irwin Twp, p. 324A (stamped), dwelling 70, family 70, Sarah and Thos. Galaway; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 September 2013); citing National Archives microfilm publication M593_1460, image 57.
[S621] 1880 U.S. census, Venango County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Irwin Twp, enumeration district 244, p. 170A (stamped), dwelling 262, family 275, Sarah and Thomas Gallaway, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 October 2013); citing FH film 1255199, roll 1199, image 0343.