JOSEPH B. GALLOWAY , one of the pioneer residents of South Pike, died at his home in Pleasant Hill last Friday at the advanced age of 83. Funeral services were held Sunday and the body was laid to rest in the Pleasant Hill cemetery. Galloway was born in Lincoln Co. MO April 28, 1826 and came with the family to this county in 1832. Mr. Galloway lived in an age when plows used even in this section consisted of a wooden mortar and a pounder attached to a spring pole. He was married Sept. 30, 1847 to Sarah Jennings, twelve children being born of their union.

Joseph B. Galloway farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 10; was born in Lincoln county, Mo., April 28, 1826, and is a son of James Galloway, deceased, so well known in the early settlement of this county. Joseph B. was brought up on a farm and educated in a subscription school. The family removed to this county in 1832, and have therefore experienced the scenes of pioneer life in this wild West. One day Mr. Galloway witnessed the capture of a fox by the school boys and their dogs. So many dogs caught the animal at once that they held him stretched out at full length above the ground for some time, which was a rather comical situation, – that is, to the boys, not to the fox. Mr. G. remembers when the only wagons used here were of the old Virginia style, and there were but few of them. The plows consisted of a piece of iron for a point, and a wooden moldboard. Mr. Galloway has pounded corn in a "masher mill," which consisted of a wooden mortar and a pounder attached to a spring- pole. He once went to where Eldara now stands, a distance of 15 or 16 miles, to a horse-mill there to get some corn ground. In a few years after this Mr. Zumwalt erected a water mill on Bay creek. Joseph B. was married Sept. 30, 1847, to Miss Sarah Jennings, and their 12 children are: Mary E., Tabitha E., dec., Thomas S., James D., Lydia A., S. Margaret, Bales H., William H., Sarah A., Ida E., Joseph F. and Nellie Grant.