Lewis Garrett Gallaway was elected Mississippi Secretary of State (Whig), in 1841 and served from 1841 - 1843. He owned a large cotton plantation (Glenave) on the Mississippi River in Bolivar Co., MS, in the 1850's. His land was located next to land owned by his brother-in-law, Thomas B. Lenoir's Southland Plantation.
Thomas B. Lenoir purchased the Elmwood Cemetery plots about 1849 to provide a suitable burial location for his mother Sarah (James) Lenoir. This large Cemetery plat was where Lewis G. Gallaway and family were later buried. Thomas B. Lenoir died and his buried in Kansas.
Lewis' first wife, Martha Elizabeth Dickinson died in Murfreesboro, TN, and is buried there near her father. In 1855, Lewis remarried Myra R. Lenoir. She remarried John Terrass in Nashville, TN. She died there and was first buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, TN. Her remains were then exhumed and moved in to Elmwood Cemetery and reburied by her husband, Lewis.
Although in the 1860 census, listed Lewis' net worth at $750,000, by the end of the Civil War he was struggling. He, his wife Myra Rebecca (Lenoir), and several children are buried in plots located in the Chapel Hill section, within Lots 229 & 230 . For 150 years these graves were unmarked and unknown to the passer-by.
Their graves were marked in 2019 through the effort of a "GoFundMe" campaign. Now a grand marker reminds the visitor that he was once a politician powerful enough to be elected to state-wide office.
Thomas B. Lenoir purchased the Elmwood Cemetery plots about 1849 to provide a suitable burial location for his mother Sarah (James) Lenoir. This large Cemetery plat was where Lewis G. Gallaway and family were later buried. Thomas B. Lenoir died and his buried in Kansas.
Lewis' first wife, Martha Elizabeth Dickinson died in Murfreesboro, TN, and is buried there near her father. In 1855, Lewis remarried Myra R. Lenoir. She remarried John Terrass in Nashville, TN. She died there and was first buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, TN. Her remains were then exhumed and moved in to Elmwood Cemetery and reburied by her husband, Lewis.
Although in the 1860 census, listed Lewis' net worth at $750,000, by the end of the Civil War he was struggling. He, his wife Myra Rebecca (Lenoir), and several children are buried in plots located in the Chapel Hill section, within Lots 229 & 230 . For 150 years these graves were unmarked and unknown to the passer-by.
Their graves were marked in 2019 through the effort of a "GoFundMe" campaign. Now a grand marker reminds the visitor that he was once a politician powerful enough to be elected to state-wide office.
Lewis Garrett Gallaway was elected Mississippi Secretary of State (Whig), in 1841 and served from 1841 - 1843. He owned a large cotton plantation (Glenave) on the Mississippi River in Bolivar Co., MS, in the 1850's. His land was located next to land owned by his brother-in-law, Thomas B. Lenoir's Southland Plantation.
Thomas B. Lenoir purchased the Elmwood Cemetery plots about 1849 to provide a suitable burial location for his mother Sarah (James) Lenoir. This large Cemetery plat was where Lewis G. Gallaway and family were later buried. Thomas B. Lenoir died and his buried in Kansas.
Lewis' first wife, Martha Elizabeth Dickinson died in Murfreesboro, TN, and is buried there near her father. In 1855, Lewis remarried Myra R. Lenoir. She remarried John Terrass in Nashville, TN. She died there and was first buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, TN. Her remains were then exhumed and moved in to Elmwood Cemetery and reburied by her husband, Lewis.
Although in the 1860 census, listed Lewis' net worth at $750,000, by the end of the Civil War he was struggling. He, his wife Myra Rebecca (Lenoir), and several children are buried in plots located in the Chapel Hill section, within Lots 229 & 230 . For 150 years these graves were unmarked and unknown to the passer-by.
Their graves were marked in 2019 through the effort of a "GoFundMe" campaign. Now a grand marker reminds the visitor that he was once a politician powerful enough to be elected to state-wide office.
Thomas B. Lenoir purchased the Elmwood Cemetery plots about 1849 to provide a suitable burial location for his mother Sarah (James) Lenoir. This large Cemetery plat was where Lewis G. Gallaway and family were later buried. Thomas B. Lenoir died and his buried in Kansas.
Lewis' first wife, Martha Elizabeth Dickinson died in Murfreesboro, TN, and is buried there near her father. In 1855, Lewis remarried Myra R. Lenoir. She remarried John Terrass in Nashville, TN. She died there and was first buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, TN. Her remains were then exhumed and moved in to Elmwood Cemetery and reburied by her husband, Lewis.
Although in the 1860 census, listed Lewis' net worth at $750,000, by the end of the Civil War he was struggling. He, his wife Myra Rebecca (Lenoir), and several children are buried in plots located in the Chapel Hill section, within Lots 229 & 230 . For 150 years these graves were unmarked and unknown to the passer-by.
Their graves were marked in 2019 through the effort of a "GoFundMe" campaign. Now a grand marker reminds the visitor that he was once a politician powerful enough to be elected to state-wide office.
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