Warren County OhArchives Obituaries.....Gallaher, Mrs. Sarah  March 27, 1862
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The Western Star, Thursday, 27 Mar 1862
The obituary for Mrs. Sarah Gallaher has been added to the Warren County
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(Communicated)
Obituary of Mrs. Sarah Gallaher

In the Star of the 13th inst., the death of Mrs. Gallaher, caused by her dress
taking fire, was mentioned, but the long residence of the deceased in this
neighborhood ___ ___ to demand a more particular notice.

Mrs. Gallaher moved to this neighborhood in the winter of 1796, and with her
husband, the late Samuel Gallaher, and two children then born, formed the fourth
family of settlers in this neighborhood. Ichabod Corwin, John Shaw and Henry
Taylor had preceded Mr. Gallaher some months. The latter being a millwright, in
1797 built a mill for Henry Taylor on Turtlecreek about a quarter of a mile
below the fork of the creek, west of Lebanon, which for some twelve years did a
considerable business, and being the first mill in the neighborhood, was a
valuable improvement. In 1803, Mr. Taylor sold this mill and the farm connected
to it to Martin Earheart, Sen., who kept it running until the water gradually
lessening in the summer, made the mill seat valueless, and it was abandoned.

Mrs. Gallaher was at her death almost 89 years full, her birthday being in June,
and until about a year before her death, had enjoyed not only good health, but
retained her physical powers with uncommon vigor, and to the time of her first
paralytic attack, in February, 1861, was strong and active. Born and reared to
womanhood some thirty miles south of Pittsburg, then a new country, she was
accustomed from childhood to a plain, hardy, backwoods life and exercises, and
to these agencies she owed much of her strong constitution and vigorous health.
Mrs. Gallaher was hardly ever sick, I think, though, frequently exposed to
hardships which even men of hardy constitutions can seldom endure. In her
younger days, in Western Pennsylvania where she lived, it was customary for
women to enter the harvest field, and make their hand with the sickle. I have
often understood from those who knew the facts, that Mrs. Gallaher wielded the
sickle with such skill and endurance the few men were willing to take their land
beside hers, and not unfrequently she led the field. Though women did not enter
the harvest fields in this neighborhood, even in early times, yet they sometimes
engaged in those sports which are now considered as only belonging to the
sterner sex. Mrs. Gallaher used the rifle with as much certainty and skill as
nay man, and often after settling on the farm where she and her husband died;
she used to shoot turkeys, squirrels, and even larger game when they made their
appearance near her residence.

Mr. and Mrs. Gallaher reared nine children, all but two born in this
neighborhood, some of whom survive.

Source: The Western Star, Thursday, 27 Mar 1862 [copy obtained from obituary
collection at the Warren County Genealogical Society]



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