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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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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