Brief Life History of Reuben
When Reuben Galloway was born on 20 January 1845, in Floyd, Indiana, United States, his father, Everett Galloway, was 22 and his mother, Nancy A Smith, was 22. He married Deborah Caroline Lundy on 9 March 1869, in Owen, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Spencer, Washington Township, Owen, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Montgomery Township, Owen, Indiana, United States in 1900. He died on 3 October 1917, in Washington Township, Owen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Owen, Indiana, United States.
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- Reuben Galaway, "United States Census, 1910"
- Reuben Gallaway, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Ruben Galloway, "Indiana Death Index, 1882-1920"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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