Ann Sellers Gallaway was the daughter of Matthew Sellers and Ann Corbett. She grew up on the York Plantation, in Brunswick Co., NC, and there married the boy next door - Robert Gallaway about 1790. Her husband was a riverboat pilot on the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic seaboard.
About 1797, Ann & Robert moved with her parents and family to Christian Co., later Livingston Co., KY, where they lived on land adjacent to the Crooked River. After Ann's father died in 1807, she moved with her husband, children and many of her siblings to Mississippi Territory, settling near Vicksburg. A family account says they sold their land and improvements to "Vick" and moved about 9 miles south near Warrenton.
One of her sons, Lewis Garrett Gallaway, was elected Mississippi Secretary of State in 1841.∼
Her youngest brother, Matthew Bacon Sellers moved from Warren County, MS, to Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, where he became a prominent cotton producer. After the Civil War, he moved to Baltimore, MD and became president of the Northern Central Railroad.
About 1797, Ann & Robert moved with her parents and family to Christian Co., later Livingston Co., KY, where they lived on land adjacent to the Crooked River. After Ann's father died in 1807, she moved with her husband, children and many of her siblings to Mississippi Territory, settling near Vicksburg. A family account says they sold their land and improvements to "Vick" and moved about 9 miles south near Warrenton.
One of her sons, Lewis Garrett Gallaway, was elected Mississippi Secretary of State in 1841.∼
Her youngest brother, Matthew Bacon Sellers moved from Warren County, MS, to Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, where he became a prominent cotton producer. After the Civil War, he moved to Baltimore, MD and became president of the Northern Central Railroad.
Ann Sellers Gallaway was the daughter of Matthew Sellers and Ann Corbett. She grew up on the York Plantation, in Brunswick Co., NC, and there married the boy next door - Robert Gallaway about 1790. Her husband was a riverboat pilot on the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic seaboard.
About 1797, Ann & Robert moved with her parents and family to Christian Co., later Livingston Co., KY, where they lived on land adjacent to the Crooked River. After Ann's father died in 1807, she moved with her husband, children and many of her siblings to Mississippi Territory, settling near Vicksburg. A family account says they sold their land and improvements to "Vick" and moved about 9 miles south near Warrenton.
One of her sons, Lewis Garrett Gallaway, was elected Mississippi Secretary of State in 1841.∼
Her youngest brother, Matthew Bacon Sellers moved from Warren County, MS, to Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, where he became a prominent cotton producer. After the Civil War, he moved to Baltimore, MD and became president of the Northern Central Railroad.
About 1797, Ann & Robert moved with her parents and family to Christian Co., later Livingston Co., KY, where they lived on land adjacent to the Crooked River. After Ann's father died in 1807, she moved with her husband, children and many of her siblings to Mississippi Territory, settling near Vicksburg. A family account says they sold their land and improvements to "Vick" and moved about 9 miles south near Warrenton.
One of her sons, Lewis Garrett Gallaway, was elected Mississippi Secretary of State in 1841.∼
Her youngest brother, Matthew Bacon Sellers moved from Warren County, MS, to Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, where he became a prominent cotton producer. After the Civil War, he moved to Baltimore, MD and became president of the Northern Central Railroad.
Gravesite Details
No headstone has been found for Ann Sellers Gallaway. The support for her burial in Hopewell is a journal entry by a great grandson, Archibald A. Gallaway. He said she was buried 1 mile east of Warrenton. They were Methodists.
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