Thomas Adam Gallaway, was the last child of Thomas & Nancy Duty Gallaway. Nancy died the day he was born, so his mother was unknown to him. His father, Thomas, had seven children still at home to care for, including a newborn baby. What he did with his children, whether they stayed with relatives, separately or together, or if he hired, or owned a slave nursemaid, is unknown, but he would not have been able to care for them by himself. He did not remarry for almost four years until March 1838 to Mary Ann Cato. In fairly quick succession Thomas Adam would have 3 new brothers to grow up with, James Lewis, William Henry & Robert Vincent. He may have felt closer to these siblings that were more near to his own age than his older brothers & sisters.
About 1852 his father, stepmother & three younger siblings migrated to Waco Village in Texas, Thomas Adam was 18 yrs. old & as far as we know he did not go with them, but stayed in either Louisiana or Mississippi. On the 1860 census Thomas was living with his Uncle James Gallaway in Carroll County, Louisiana & his occupation was listed as overseer. On the following census page, pg. 35 is the Carson family whom he worked for before & after the Civil War. In a letter from William Waller Carson, dated Sept. 2, 1916, written for a pension request, he writes about Thomas Adam's work for the family:
"Tom Galloway (I do not recall his middle name), who was in the employ of Dr. J. G. Carson of Carroll Parish, La., at or about the time the battle of Shiloh was fought, who was in the employ of Joseph Carson, then of Carroll Parish, La, for a year or more immediately after or soon after the close of the War Between the States, and whose son Tom was in the employ of the said Joseph Carson, then of Coahoma Co., Miss., about 14 years ago) is the man I refer to now."
Thomas Adam's grandson, son of William Franklin Gallaway, would be named Edd Carson Gallaway, perhaps after these long-time friends of the family.
According to his muster rolls, he joined Company C, 28th Mississippi Cavalry, as a Private, in August 1862, in Bolivar County, Mississippi. He was enlisted by Col. Peter B. Stark & served under both him & Capt. Buckner. His commander was Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. On November 29, 1864, he was wounded in action at Franklin, Tennessee, where he lost his left arm. He was captured later by the enemy on December 17, 1864 & taken as a prisoner of war, to a military prison in Louisville, Kentucky. From there he was sent to Camp Chase in Ohio on February 3, 1865 & then to Point Lookout, Maryland March 26, 1865. On June 6, 1865 he was finally released to go home. One can only imagine how he must have felt being sent farther & farther from home, from one dismal prisoner of war camp to another, where conditions were bleak & abusive, there was little food, clothing or blankets, rampant disease & the awful cold of a northern winter. The day that he walked out of prison in June must have seemed like heaven indeed. He had survived being severely wounded, losing his arm & was so far away from home. I have to wonder how he got home from Maryland to Mississippi. Did he walk, bumming a ride on a wagon whenever he could, or did someone send him money for a riverboat ticket? Still every step, every mile must have seemed almost dreamlike as he thought of his family, his home, & no more battles, no more marches, no more war.
After his return from Louisiana to Attala County, he married Lucy Ann Mitchell Duncan, a widow, on 3 January 1867. Her first husband, James Riley Duncan, died in the prisoner of war camp at Rock Island, Illinois in 1864. He & Lucy Ann's brother, Albert Pierce Mitchell were both imprisoned there after being captured on 24 November 1863, at the Battle of Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Albert was exchanged on 28 March 1865, & sent to Camp Lee near Richmond, Virginia. He returned to Attala County after the end of the war.
Lucy Ann & James Riley Duncan had four children, Ida Ann, Henrietta, Susan Louella & Albert Ross. Albert Ross would later marry Peter Bettie Gallaway, the daughter of Dr. George W. Gallaway, a brother of Thomas Adam. With the untimely death of James Riley, Thomas Adam would raise these four children along with his & Lucy's children. First a daughter, Tallulah Walton, a son Robert Lee that would only live for 6 years, a son George Thomas, & one last son, William Franklin.
I know nothing about the years after the war, the trials of Reconstruction, the growing up years of his & Lucy's children, but they must have been happy in those years of hard work, & all that comes with the fellowship in small & close communities, with people you have known & cared for all your life. Thomas would at least live to see his daughter Tallulah married to Daniel Ricketts in 1893 & the joy & loss of his first grandson, Irl Prewitt Ricketts, who would live less than a year. His son George Thomas was married to Josie Leo Jackson & they too would present him with a granddaughter, Merle Gallaway, that would only live for 14 mos. Nine other grandchildren born after his death would continue to carry on his name & legacy, passed down now by many grateful generations of descendants.
I put off writing this bio because I felt like I knew nothing about Thomas Adam Gallaway, and yet once I started to write the story of his life, I discovered more about him than I could have ever imagined. Again, as with his father, Thomas, I struck up a conversation with his photograph. In it I saw that the photographer had captured his secret, the one showing in his eyes, no matter what he had faced in life, he was just overjoyed to be alive!
-Judy Beach
"Attala County is called on to mourn the loss of one of her best citizens in the death of Mr. T. A. Gallaway.... He was one of nature's noblemen, an upright, honorable, honest man. An impress of his integrity has been left as a heritage to his children & his example of moral rectitude & upright dealings with fellow man will long be cherished by a large circle of friends & acquaintances."
- From his obituary in the Kosciusko Herald, Attala County, Mississippi
About 1852 his father, stepmother & three younger siblings migrated to Waco Village in Texas, Thomas Adam was 18 yrs. old & as far as we know he did not go with them, but stayed in either Louisiana or Mississippi. On the 1860 census Thomas was living with his Uncle James Gallaway in Carroll County, Louisiana & his occupation was listed as overseer. On the following census page, pg. 35 is the Carson family whom he worked for before & after the Civil War. In a letter from William Waller Carson, dated Sept. 2, 1916, written for a pension request, he writes about Thomas Adam's work for the family:
"Tom Galloway (I do not recall his middle name), who was in the employ of Dr. J. G. Carson of Carroll Parish, La., at or about the time the battle of Shiloh was fought, who was in the employ of Joseph Carson, then of Carroll Parish, La, for a year or more immediately after or soon after the close of the War Between the States, and whose son Tom was in the employ of the said Joseph Carson, then of Coahoma Co., Miss., about 14 years ago) is the man I refer to now."
Thomas Adam's grandson, son of William Franklin Gallaway, would be named Edd Carson Gallaway, perhaps after these long-time friends of the family.
According to his muster rolls, he joined Company C, 28th Mississippi Cavalry, as a Private, in August 1862, in Bolivar County, Mississippi. He was enlisted by Col. Peter B. Stark & served under both him & Capt. Buckner. His commander was Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. On November 29, 1864, he was wounded in action at Franklin, Tennessee, where he lost his left arm. He was captured later by the enemy on December 17, 1864 & taken as a prisoner of war, to a military prison in Louisville, Kentucky. From there he was sent to Camp Chase in Ohio on February 3, 1865 & then to Point Lookout, Maryland March 26, 1865. On June 6, 1865 he was finally released to go home. One can only imagine how he must have felt being sent farther & farther from home, from one dismal prisoner of war camp to another, where conditions were bleak & abusive, there was little food, clothing or blankets, rampant disease & the awful cold of a northern winter. The day that he walked out of prison in June must have seemed like heaven indeed. He had survived being severely wounded, losing his arm & was so far away from home. I have to wonder how he got home from Maryland to Mississippi. Did he walk, bumming a ride on a wagon whenever he could, or did someone send him money for a riverboat ticket? Still every step, every mile must have seemed almost dreamlike as he thought of his family, his home, & no more battles, no more marches, no more war.
After his return from Louisiana to Attala County, he married Lucy Ann Mitchell Duncan, a widow, on 3 January 1867. Her first husband, James Riley Duncan, died in the prisoner of war camp at Rock Island, Illinois in 1864. He & Lucy Ann's brother, Albert Pierce Mitchell were both imprisoned there after being captured on 24 November 1863, at the Battle of Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Albert was exchanged on 28 March 1865, & sent to Camp Lee near Richmond, Virginia. He returned to Attala County after the end of the war.
Lucy Ann & James Riley Duncan had four children, Ida Ann, Henrietta, Susan Louella & Albert Ross. Albert Ross would later marry Peter Bettie Gallaway, the daughter of Dr. George W. Gallaway, a brother of Thomas Adam. With the untimely death of James Riley, Thomas Adam would raise these four children along with his & Lucy's children. First a daughter, Tallulah Walton, a son Robert Lee that would only live for 6 years, a son George Thomas, & one last son, William Franklin.
I know nothing about the years after the war, the trials of Reconstruction, the growing up years of his & Lucy's children, but they must have been happy in those years of hard work, & all that comes with the fellowship in small & close communities, with people you have known & cared for all your life. Thomas would at least live to see his daughter Tallulah married to Daniel Ricketts in 1893 & the joy & loss of his first grandson, Irl Prewitt Ricketts, who would live less than a year. His son George Thomas was married to Josie Leo Jackson & they too would present him with a granddaughter, Merle Gallaway, that would only live for 14 mos. Nine other grandchildren born after his death would continue to carry on his name & legacy, passed down now by many grateful generations of descendants.
I put off writing this bio because I felt like I knew nothing about Thomas Adam Gallaway, and yet once I started to write the story of his life, I discovered more about him than I could have ever imagined. Again, as with his father, Thomas, I struck up a conversation with his photograph. In it I saw that the photographer had captured his secret, the one showing in his eyes, no matter what he had faced in life, he was just overjoyed to be alive!
-Judy Beach
"Attala County is called on to mourn the loss of one of her best citizens in the death of Mr. T. A. Gallaway.... He was one of nature's noblemen, an upright, honorable, honest man. An impress of his integrity has been left as a heritage to his children & his example of moral rectitude & upright dealings with fellow man will long be cherished by a large circle of friends & acquaintances."
- From his obituary in the Kosciusko Herald, Attala County, Mississippi
Thomas Adam Gallaway, was the last child of Thomas & Nancy Duty Gallaway. Nancy died the day he was born, so his mother was unknown to him. His father, Thomas, had seven children still at home to care for, including a newborn baby. What he did with his children, whether they stayed with relatives, separately or together, or if he hired, or owned a slave nursemaid, is unknown, but he would not have been able to care for them by himself. He did not remarry for almost four years until March 1838 to Mary Ann Cato. In fairly quick succession Thomas Adam would have 3 new brothers to grow up with, James Lewis, William Henry & Robert Vincent. He may have felt closer to these siblings that were more near to his own age than his older brothers & sisters.
About 1852 his father, stepmother & three younger siblings migrated to Waco Village in Texas, Thomas Adam was 18 yrs. old & as far as we know he did not go with them, but stayed in either Louisiana or Mississippi. On the 1860 census Thomas was living with his Uncle James Gallaway in Carroll County, Louisiana & his occupation was listed as overseer. On the following census page, pg. 35 is the Carson family whom he worked for before & after the Civil War. In a letter from William Waller Carson, dated Sept. 2, 1916, written for a pension request, he writes about Thomas Adam's work for the family:
"Tom Galloway (I do not recall his middle name), who was in the employ of Dr. J. G. Carson of Carroll Parish, La., at or about the time the battle of Shiloh was fought, who was in the employ of Joseph Carson, then of Carroll Parish, La, for a year or more immediately after or soon after the close of the War Between the States, and whose son Tom was in the employ of the said Joseph Carson, then of Coahoma Co., Miss., about 14 years ago) is the man I refer to now."
Thomas Adam's grandson, son of William Franklin Gallaway, would be named Edd Carson Gallaway, perhaps after these long-time friends of the family.
According to his muster rolls, he joined Company C, 28th Mississippi Cavalry, as a Private, in August 1862, in Bolivar County, Mississippi. He was enlisted by Col. Peter B. Stark & served under both him & Capt. Buckner. His commander was Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. On November 29, 1864, he was wounded in action at Franklin, Tennessee, where he lost his left arm. He was captured later by the enemy on December 17, 1864 & taken as a prisoner of war, to a military prison in Louisville, Kentucky. From there he was sent to Camp Chase in Ohio on February 3, 1865 & then to Point Lookout, Maryland March 26, 1865. On June 6, 1865 he was finally released to go home. One can only imagine how he must have felt being sent farther & farther from home, from one dismal prisoner of war camp to another, where conditions were bleak & abusive, there was little food, clothing or blankets, rampant disease & the awful cold of a northern winter. The day that he walked out of prison in June must have seemed like heaven indeed. He had survived being severely wounded, losing his arm & was so far away from home. I have to wonder how he got home from Maryland to Mississippi. Did he walk, bumming a ride on a wagon whenever he could, or did someone send him money for a riverboat ticket? Still every step, every mile must have seemed almost dreamlike as he thought of his family, his home, & no more battles, no more marches, no more war.
After his return from Louisiana to Attala County, he married Lucy Ann Mitchell Duncan, a widow, on 3 January 1867. Her first husband, James Riley Duncan, died in the prisoner of war camp at Rock Island, Illinois in 1864. He & Lucy Ann's brother, Albert Pierce Mitchell were both imprisoned there after being captured on 24 November 1863, at the Battle of Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Albert was exchanged on 28 March 1865, & sent to Camp Lee near Richmond, Virginia. He returned to Attala County after the end of the war.
Lucy Ann & James Riley Duncan had four children, Ida Ann, Henrietta, Susan Louella & Albert Ross. Albert Ross would later marry Peter Bettie Gallaway, the daughter of Dr. George W. Gallaway, a brother of Thomas Adam. With the untimely death of James Riley, Thomas Adam would raise these four children along with his & Lucy's children. First a daughter, Tallulah Walton, a son Robert Lee that would only live for 6 years, a son George Thomas, & one last son, William Franklin.
I know nothing about the years after the war, the trials of Reconstruction, the growing up years of his & Lucy's children, but they must have been happy in those years of hard work, & all that comes with the fellowship in small & close communities, with people you have known & cared for all your life. Thomas would at least live to see his daughter Tallulah married to Daniel Ricketts in 1893 & the joy & loss of his first grandson, Irl Prewitt Ricketts, who would live less than a year. His son George Thomas was married to Josie Leo Jackson & they too would present him with a granddaughter, Merle Gallaway, that would only live for 14 mos. Nine other grandchildren born after his death would continue to carry on his name & legacy, passed down now by many grateful generations of descendants.
I put off writing this bio because I felt like I knew nothing about Thomas Adam Gallaway, and yet once I started to write the story of his life, I discovered more about him than I could have ever imagined. Again, as with his father, Thomas, I struck up a conversation with his photograph. In it I saw that the photographer had captured his secret, the one showing in his eyes, no matter what he had faced in life, he was just overjoyed to be alive!
-Judy Beach
"Attala County is called on to mourn the loss of one of her best citizens in the death of Mr. T. A. Gallaway.... He was one of nature's noblemen, an upright, honorable, honest man. An impress of his integrity has been left as a heritage to his children & his example of moral rectitude & upright dealings with fellow man will long be cherished by a large circle of friends & acquaintances."
- From his obituary in the Kosciusko Herald, Attala County, Mississippi
About 1852 his father, stepmother & three younger siblings migrated to Waco Village in Texas, Thomas Adam was 18 yrs. old & as far as we know he did not go with them, but stayed in either Louisiana or Mississippi. On the 1860 census Thomas was living with his Uncle James Gallaway in Carroll County, Louisiana & his occupation was listed as overseer. On the following census page, pg. 35 is the Carson family whom he worked for before & after the Civil War. In a letter from William Waller Carson, dated Sept. 2, 1916, written for a pension request, he writes about Thomas Adam's work for the family:
"Tom Galloway (I do not recall his middle name), who was in the employ of Dr. J. G. Carson of Carroll Parish, La., at or about the time the battle of Shiloh was fought, who was in the employ of Joseph Carson, then of Carroll Parish, La, for a year or more immediately after or soon after the close of the War Between the States, and whose son Tom was in the employ of the said Joseph Carson, then of Coahoma Co., Miss., about 14 years ago) is the man I refer to now."
Thomas Adam's grandson, son of William Franklin Gallaway, would be named Edd Carson Gallaway, perhaps after these long-time friends of the family.
According to his muster rolls, he joined Company C, 28th Mississippi Cavalry, as a Private, in August 1862, in Bolivar County, Mississippi. He was enlisted by Col. Peter B. Stark & served under both him & Capt. Buckner. His commander was Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. On November 29, 1864, he was wounded in action at Franklin, Tennessee, where he lost his left arm. He was captured later by the enemy on December 17, 1864 & taken as a prisoner of war, to a military prison in Louisville, Kentucky. From there he was sent to Camp Chase in Ohio on February 3, 1865 & then to Point Lookout, Maryland March 26, 1865. On June 6, 1865 he was finally released to go home. One can only imagine how he must have felt being sent farther & farther from home, from one dismal prisoner of war camp to another, where conditions were bleak & abusive, there was little food, clothing or blankets, rampant disease & the awful cold of a northern winter. The day that he walked out of prison in June must have seemed like heaven indeed. He had survived being severely wounded, losing his arm & was so far away from home. I have to wonder how he got home from Maryland to Mississippi. Did he walk, bumming a ride on a wagon whenever he could, or did someone send him money for a riverboat ticket? Still every step, every mile must have seemed almost dreamlike as he thought of his family, his home, & no more battles, no more marches, no more war.
After his return from Louisiana to Attala County, he married Lucy Ann Mitchell Duncan, a widow, on 3 January 1867. Her first husband, James Riley Duncan, died in the prisoner of war camp at Rock Island, Illinois in 1864. He & Lucy Ann's brother, Albert Pierce Mitchell were both imprisoned there after being captured on 24 November 1863, at the Battle of Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Albert was exchanged on 28 March 1865, & sent to Camp Lee near Richmond, Virginia. He returned to Attala County after the end of the war.
Lucy Ann & James Riley Duncan had four children, Ida Ann, Henrietta, Susan Louella & Albert Ross. Albert Ross would later marry Peter Bettie Gallaway, the daughter of Dr. George W. Gallaway, a brother of Thomas Adam. With the untimely death of James Riley, Thomas Adam would raise these four children along with his & Lucy's children. First a daughter, Tallulah Walton, a son Robert Lee that would only live for 6 years, a son George Thomas, & one last son, William Franklin.
I know nothing about the years after the war, the trials of Reconstruction, the growing up years of his & Lucy's children, but they must have been happy in those years of hard work, & all that comes with the fellowship in small & close communities, with people you have known & cared for all your life. Thomas would at least live to see his daughter Tallulah married to Daniel Ricketts in 1893 & the joy & loss of his first grandson, Irl Prewitt Ricketts, who would live less than a year. His son George Thomas was married to Josie Leo Jackson & they too would present him with a granddaughter, Merle Gallaway, that would only live for 14 mos. Nine other grandchildren born after his death would continue to carry on his name & legacy, passed down now by many grateful generations of descendants.
I put off writing this bio because I felt like I knew nothing about Thomas Adam Gallaway, and yet once I started to write the story of his life, I discovered more about him than I could have ever imagined. Again, as with his father, Thomas, I struck up a conversation with his photograph. In it I saw that the photographer had captured his secret, the one showing in his eyes, no matter what he had faced in life, he was just overjoyed to be alive!
-Judy Beach
"Attala County is called on to mourn the loss of one of her best citizens in the death of Mr. T. A. Gallaway.... He was one of nature's noblemen, an upright, honorable, honest man. An impress of his integrity has been left as a heritage to his children & his example of moral rectitude & upright dealings with fellow man will long be cherished by a large circle of friends & acquaintances."
- From his obituary in the Kosciusko Herald, Attala County, Mississippi
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