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Well, today I got my packet of info on Joseph Golliday’s will. In the words of the people from the Nebraska State Historical Society ” the quality of the prints is regrettably very poor”. The originals were apparently quite faded when microfilmed and the film itself has not held up well. The actual original may be on file in Phelps County Clerk Office and I may eventually try to get copies from there. Anyway, the good news is there was enough readable to answer a number fo questions and as always create more.

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Issac Galladay 1869 – 1930 – Find A Grave Memorial.

Issac Galladay is Oliver Perry Whitney’s half brother. Link is to pic of his tombstone.

getting impatient waiting for my request for Joseph Golladay’s estate records to come in the mail. It’s been almost two weeks. I’m really hoping this will answer some of the questions about Oliver Perry Whitney’s family.

from http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nephelps/2006Mar.pdf

here’s another version of the murder trial of William “Crazy” Miller.

“Now an old timer has come to our rescue and tells of what was, without
a possibility of a doubt, the first grand jury session in the county.
Deacon H. D. Jayne has given us the facts of that historical court
term.
It was held in September 1880, soon after the county was organized. It
convened in the only enclosed building in Phelps Center, there being
only two other partially completed buildings in the old county seat at
that time. The dwelling they used as a court house was not yet finished,
it being necessary for them to meet in an upstairs room.
Judge Gaslin, now living in Alma was the judge and two men now living
in the county besides Mr. Jayne served on the Jury. They were J. A.
Dunlavy of this city and I. N. Swartwood, living northeast of Funk.
The mater before the jury was the murder of a man named Miller by a
gang of men on Spring Creek. Miller was shot in a quarrel at a threshing
bee and several men were implicated. The grand jury, however, made
the mistake of indicting one man to many, the inclusion of an innocent
party spoiling the whole case and letting all go free when the case
came up for trial before the district court.”

Slightly different. The several men include Samuel and Jacob Moser and James Sweezy.

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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Figured I’d take some time to summarize my information on Oliver Perry Whitney so far.

This is from my posting on the Whitney Research Group site:

Oliver Perry Whitney was born 29 Dec 1849, IL, and died 4 Nov 1914, Burr Oak, Doniphan Co., KS. He is buried in Cowger Cemetery, Doniphan Co., KS.

He married 1873, Rock Falls, Phelps Co., NE, Cordelia Moser, daughter of Samuel P. and Rebecca (Polly/Paulin?) Moser. She was born 18 Apr 1853, Greenville, Darke Co., OH, and died 19 Feb 1930, Burns, Laramie Co., WY.
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