ALMON C. GALLOWAY, Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan Contributed 2003 by Jan Galloway for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ Adrian Daily Telegram, (Lenawee County, Michigan), August 4, 1906 Almon C. Galloway Death of Almon C. Galloway; Adrian Daily Telegram, (Lenawee County, Michigan), August 4, 1906 reads in part:. It was curious coincidence that Almon C. Galloway, a prominent pioneer of Lenawee County, and one of a few nonagenarians, should receive the final summons home on the eve of the annual picnic of the Lenawee Pioneer society, the death of this prominent pioneer of Adrian Township occurring at his farm home in Adrian Township, which he had owned and resided upon for fifty-two years, at 11 o'clock Friday night, death resulting from old age, a painless transition. Mr. Galloway had resided in Adrian Township since 1838, purchasing in 1838 one hundred and sixty acres on section five and 8, which he sold in 1854 to the late J. D. Kasler, who owned it until this last spring. Mr. Galloway next move was to purchase one hundred and fifty acres on section thirteen, which has since been his home. On the firm farm he cleared one hundred acres and fenced the entire place, and replaced the log house and barn, which he first built, with frame structures, and raised a good orchard from seed brought from New York. His present farm has been brought up to a rare degree of cultivation. Mr. Galloway having been a shrewd and prosperous farmer, managing the place himself until about fifteen years ago, since when the son, David Galloway, who has remained on the farm all these years, and who now succeeds in the ownership of its broad acres, has managed it. Another remarkable thing about the deceased is that he was permitted to celebrate on March 16 of this present year the sixty-ninth anniversary of his marriage to his faithful helpmeet, who before her marriage was Miss Calista Knowles, a daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Knowles of Palmyra, New York. These marriage anniversaries have been very pleasant affairs to the immediate family and the brothers and sisters, who have gathered about the table in response to invitations to participate in the feast and visiting. Mr. Galloway was born in New York, his birth occurring February 2, 1816, his grandfather having been one of the first pioneers to settle in Palmyra, which is in Wayne County, his father having been carried there in a sack when the journey to that county was made from Herkimer County. John Galloway, father of the deceased, settled in Palmyra on a large farm of his own until 1824, when he came to Michigan on the fist steamboat on Lake Erie, the "Pioneer", on its first trip, arriving at Detroit on May 1st. They lived first at Pontiac for about 11 years, then near Toledo for several years, making a final settlement at Raisinville, in Monroe County. Almon was the youngest of four children born to John and Elizabeth Cornell Galloway, and lived with his father until about nineteen years of age. In 1834 he went to Palmyra, New York, remaining there until 1837, when he came back and lived one year near Toledo, then purchasing his first Adrian Township farm, already referred to in this sketch. Three children were born to Mr. And Mrs. Almon Galloway, two sons and a daughter, the daughter, Elizabeth, dying in infancy. The sons, David A. Galloway, on the home farm, and Duane C. Galloway, formerly a farmer in Adrian or Raisin Townships and is now a resident of this city. There are also three grandchildren, A. Duane and Calista , children of David's, the former married and living in this city; Castila, Mrs. Small, now married and living near Olivet, and Lucy, Duane's daughter, a teacher in the Montague, Michigan high school. There is also a great-grandchild, Robert Galloway, a son of A. D. Galloway. The venerable widow is also a nonagenarian, and will miss indeed this partner of her joys and sorrows, who has walked with her, hand in hand, for sixty-nine years past. Mr. Galloway was highly regarded and has been one of the best farmers around here, until handicapped by his years, he turned over the reins to the son. The funeral has been arranged for Monday afternoon at the home at 2:30 sun time, Rev. E. M. Moore officiating, with burial in Oakwood.