Thomas Clingman Galloway

Brief Life History of Thomas Clingman

When Thomas Clingman Galloway was born in 1863, in Transylvania, North Carolina, United States, his father, Josiah A Galloway, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Shelton, was 34. He married Mary Magdalene Brown before 1880. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Seaside, Clatsop, Oregon, United States in 1920 and Jackson, North Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 28 August 1940, in Wolf Mountain, Jackson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Tuckasegee, Jackson, North Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Clingman Galloway
1863–1940
Mary Magdalene Brown
1859–1944
Marriage: before 1880
Ida Galloway
1881–1924
Elizabeth Galloway
Hexter Galloway
Nela Haseltine Galloway
1882–1962
Mary Elizabeth Galloway
1883–1964
Rosa Carlon Galloway
1886–1928
Thomas Hexter Galloway
1892–1984

Sources (13)

  • Thos C Gallaway in household of Y A Gallaway, "United States Census, 1870"
  • T C Galloway, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
  • Thomas Clingman Galloway, "North Carolina, Deaths, 1931-1994"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1871

Historical Boundaries - 1871: Clatsop, Oregon, United States

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

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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