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Warren County OhArchives News.....William Gallaher April 1895
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Western Star Newspaper April 1895
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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