Posts Tagged ‘Galladay’

Okay, I’m stumped. : (

I’m still fairly sure that Oliver Perry Whitney’s mother Ruth is somehow connected to the Light Family in Clermont Ohio in 1850. But, I can’t prove a link. There’s a Peter and Hepsibeth (Whitney) Light living there. There’s a James and a David Whitney the right ages to be OP’s grandfather and uncle
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Much thanks to Phelps County Phelps Helps newsletters and the book “Happy as a Big Sunflower” about life in early Phelps County. This book has several other brief mentions about our family, like descriptions of Joe Galladay’s speaking style, Josephine Moser Steward’s husband’s card playing, and Jacob and Sam Moser too!!

Several families including the Galladay, Moser, Daggett, Sweezey and Miller’s went to Phelps County. Nebraska in about 1873. Sometime shortly after that, William “Crazy” Miller, who’d been the first sheriff, abducted one of Ruth and Joseph Galladay’s daughters ( possibly Cordelia/Phidelia) when she was 16. He kept her imprisoned for some time and she apparently had 1, perhaps 2, sons. She escaped to the Dale farm and was rescued by Emma Dale and her husband. According to the Phelps Helps Newsletter, she went then by train to rejoin her family who had moved away. In 1877, Miller was shot by a group of men including James Sweezey, Sam and Jacob Moser, John Daggett and Bob and Sam Dale in an incident on his land bordering the Moser farm. Miller was killed by Sweezey (who was sheriff after Miller)and Dale injured.
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I’ve got most of the kinks worked out. Still not happy with the interfacing of the blog and the database software, but there’s not any terrific option to fix the issues now. So, for now, you have to log in to them separately. You can leave comments here without a login, but to view the database you need to sign up and get a login and have me send you a password. Just e-,ail me or leave me a comment and I’ll set you up.

On the research front, there’s not a lot new. Found a spouse for Jacob Moser’s daughter “Feby” who seems to really be named Pheobe. No new info on the Whitney/Moser ancestors tho. I’m thinking about having the Nebraska Historic Society do a search for me to get Joseph Galladay’s will, and some info from the Nebraska 1885 census. But we’ll have to see. Ancestry.com has an index for the census, but the transcription is horrible! Ruth is Ralle, someone is Orlines, I can’t figure out who, and Homer is Heman. All listed as Galady instead of Galladay. But it does indicate they stayed in Rock Falls until at least 1885. Haven’t done much on the other family lines recently and still need to prune out the “legendary” people from dates before say 1600 or so.