In 1851, George Gallaher and family moved to La Salle County, Illinois. George and Hannah Baird Gallaher were the parents of eight children. They have been recorded in a family genealogy as follows: James Black Gallaher; William Kilgore Gallaher, Eliza Ann who married William Brown, Lyddy Maria, who married James G. Miller, George Washington Gallaher, Mary Jane who married John McCombs, Robert Johnson Gallaher, and also an unnamed infant. Hannah Haight Gallaher also had children and step-children. George Gallaher is also recorded as having adopted a son, David Henry Slagle, who served in the Civil War and was postmaster of Marseilles, Illinois, from 1868 to 1888.
The 1850 census states that George Gallaher was born in Delaware. His parents moved to Fayette County, PA when he was very young. The earliest La Salle County, Illinois, burial information shows their burials in the Butterfield Cemetery, which was later known as the Christian Cemetery.
The Gallaher graves could not be found by Findagrave.com photographers in 2011.
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In 1851, George Gallaher and family moved to La Salle County, Illinois. George and Hannah Baird Gallaher were the parents of eight children. They have been recorded in a family genealogy as follows: James Black Gallaher; William Kilgore Gallaher, Eliza Ann who married William Brown, Lyddy Maria, who married James G. Miller, George Washington Gallaher, Mary Jane who married John McCombs, Robert Johnson Gallaher, and also an unnamed infant. Hannah Haight Gallaher also had children and step-children. George Gallaher is also recorded as having adopted a son, David Henry Slagle, who served in the Civil War and was postmaster of Marseilles, Illinois, from 1868 to 1888.
The 1850 census states that George Gallaher was born in Delaware. His parents moved to Fayette County, PA when he was very young. The earliest La Salle County, Illinois, burial information shows their burials in the Butterfield Cemetery, which was later known as the Christian Cemetery.
The Gallaher graves could not be found by Findagrave.com photographers in 2011.
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Gravesite Details
Butterfield Cemetery may also be known as the Christian Cemetery. It is overgrown and untended. Also, the La Salle County Genealogy Guild cemetery database record for George Gallaher includes the notation that his gravestone is broken.
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