When William Wallace Galloway was born on 5 July 1802, in Pitt, North Carolina, United States, his father, Henry William Galloway, was 23 and his mother, Civility Jordan Buck, was 28. He married Sarah "Sallie" Fuller in 1825, in Henry, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Eastern Division, Walker, Alabama, United States in 1860 and Alabama, United States in 1870. He died on 25 March 1893, in Troy, Pike, Alabama, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Brundidge, Pike, Alabama, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Galloway in southwest Scotland, named as ‘place of the foreign Gaels’, from Gaelic gall ‘foreigner’ + Gaidheal ‘Gael’. From the 8th century or before it was a province of Anglian Northumbria. In the 9th century it was settled by mixed Gaelic-Norse inhabitants from the Hebrides and Isle of Man.
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Possible Related NamesFrom the notes of Julian Anderson: In 1850, William Galloway & family are in Barbour Cty, Alabama. He is living next door to Wiley and Frances Anderson, his daughter and son-in-law. Since the youngest …
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