Moses W. Galloway

Birth Date

1817-07-04

Death Date

1889-05-25

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, native. Son of John Galloway and Lucy Thompson Galloway. Married to Irene Galbraith in Maury County, Tennessee, on December 8, 1838. Father of John Galloway, Rebecca S. Galloway, Virginia Galloway, Elizabeth Galloway, and Benjamin H. Galloway. Farmer in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Sheriff in Graves County in 1859. Sheriff in Graves County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 444B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 317.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Hays, p. 452A.
Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Maury County, 1808-1867: Marriages 3, pp. 24-25.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 99.
"Local News," Hickman Courier (Hickman, KY), May 31, 1889, p. 3.
J.H. Battle, W.H. Perrin, and G.C. Kniffin, Kentucky, a History of the State, (Louisville and Chicago: F.A. Battey, 1885), p. 255.

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