Warren County OhArchives Biographies.....Gallaher, William April 4, 1808 - April 14, 1895
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Author: Western Star Newspaper

Warren County Ohio Archives Obituaries.....Gallaher, William  April 14, 1895

The Western Star
WILLIAM GALLAHER
CLOSE OF A LIFE'S WORK SPENT ALMOST ENTIRELY WITHIN WARREN COUNTY

     The funeral services of the late William Gallaher were held at the 
residence south of Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon of last week and were largely 
attended. They were conducted by Rev. J. P. Porter, of the Methodist church, 
and from the paper which he read, the STAR is permitted to make the following 
extracts:

     Before the beginning of this century which is now nearing its close, a 
young couple, Samuel and Sarah Gallaher, came from near Pittsburg. Descending 
the Ohio river on a flatboat, and landed at Columbia, just above Cincinnati. 
This was in the year 1795. During the same year Mr. Gallaher came to Lebanon to 
build a mill for Mr. Henry Taylor, the first settler in the town of Lebanon, 
for which Mr. Taylor gave him, according to contract, one hundred acres of land 
just south of Turtlecreek, a part of which is now within the corporation of 
Lebanon. This farm Mr. Gallaher very soon traded to Mr. Jonas Simmons for the 
farm lying just north of the Hart schoolhouse, which is still in the possession 
of his descendants. Here Mr. and Mrs. Gallaher reared a large family of sons 
and daughters, all but one of them coming to manhood and womanhood. And here 
the mother died in 1862, in her eighty ninth year, the father having died in 
1833, while on a business trip to Cincinnati. There were twelve members of this 
pioneer family, eight sons and four daughters. Of these Harvey married Ann 
Williams, a native of this county, a sister of Milton Williams, who for many 
years a prominent attorney of Lebanon. He settled in Clinton county, where his 
family was brought up and where some of them still reside. John married Nancy 
Sellers and emigrated to Clinton county, Ind. Another brother, Laomi, also made 
his home near to his brother in this neighboring state. James married Miss 
Reform Coffeen and purchased a farm near Red Lion, where he died of cholera in 
1835. Milton was the victim of consumption and died in young manhood at his 
father's home. Matilda married Britton Baird and they made their permanent home 
in Jay county, Ind. Mary married Aaron James; their home was in Warren county, 
but she lived only a short time after her marriage. Elizabeth became the wife 
of John Sellers and lived near Springboro until about two years ago, at which 
time she died at the great age of ninety six years. Catharine was the wife of 
William Gallaher; her home was in Warren county until after the death of her 
husband, when she went to Kansas with her family, where she has since died. 
Carvel, the youngest of the family, married Cynthia Ann Keenan and became 
possessed of the homestead, where he still lives with his son. He is the only 
surviving member of this large family, whose lives were so intimately 
associated with the early history of this county.

     William, the fifth son, the subject of this sketch, was born April 4, 
1808, and died April 14, 1895, being just ten days over eighty-seven years of 
age. His home, throughout his long life, has been in Warren county, except, 
perhaps, one year, which he spent in Clinton county, and he had lived on the 
farm where he died fifty-one years. He was united in marriage in 1834 to Miss 
Mary Jane Corwin, also a native of Warren county, a daughter of Benjamin And 
Rebecca Corwin. She was a niece of the Hon. Thomas Corwin.

     Five children were the result of this union, three sons and two daughters. 
One son died in infancy. The oldest son died of typhoid fever at the age of 
twenty-three. Sarah married Peter Sellers. Ann married Albert Wilkins; her home 
is in Cincinnati. And the remaining one, Mr. William Francis Gallaher, has 
alwas [sic] occupied the homestead.

     The wife and mother of his children died May 13, 1870. For nearly twenty-
five years Mr. Gallaher has been a widower and his home has been with his son, 
where he will be very greatly missed, so greatly was he interested in the 
members of the household, and they, in turn, ardently attached to him." 
Source: The Western Star [copy obtained from obituary collection at the Warren 
County Genealogical Society]


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