Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Galloway, Thomas C. November 22 1837 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    THOMAS C. GALLOWAY, son of G. W. and Elizabeth (Jordan) Galloway, was born
in Henderson county, N. C., November 22, 1837. The family is of Irish descent,
its earliest progenitors coming to Richmond, Va., in the colonial days, and some
of them taking part in the Revolutionary war. The grandfather, William Galloway,
removed in early times to North Carolina, where he brought up a large family,
and the father of Thomas C. spent his life there, where he married in 1828; and
brought up a family of eight children, as follows: John F., B. D., Thomas C.,
Lucy A., deceased; Joseph A., Mary A., Cora C., and Queen V. The father of these
children died in 1878, and the mother in 1862. Thomas C. Galloway enlisted in
the service of the Confederate States in 1861, in company E, Twenty-fifth North
Carolina infantry, and served till 1864, when he was wounded and promoted to a
captaincy and commanded a company of cavalry. He took part in the severe battles
of Harper's Ferry, first battle of Seven days' fight, Sharpsburg,
Fredericksburg, Gum Swamp, Newbern, Little Washington, Plymouth, Buell's Gap,
and many skirmishes of less, importance, and was badly wounded at Plymouth, in
the shoulder. He removed, in 1870, to his present home, in Little Wills valley,
Ala. In 1872, he was married to Ida Ramey, and to the marriage the seven
following children were born: Charles V., Eugene R., R. E., Ida, T. C., Jr.,
William and Thomas. Politically, he is a democrat. He is an Odd Fellow, and a
member of the Baptist church. He owns 1,000 acres of fine land.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1016
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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