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Charles L. Gallaher
10 Mar 1859 – 17 Feb 1907
| Birth | 10 Mar 1859 |
| Death | 17 Feb 1907 |
| Cemetery | Dry Valley Cemetery Custer County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | Diane (Wonch) Stunkel on 31 May 2010 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43306861 |
Bio
The late Charles L. Gallaher was among the early settlers of Custer county, where he was widely and favorably known, in his death the community lost a public-spirited and useful citizen. He was born in Brown county, Illinois, October, 3, 1859, eighth of the eleven children born to Harvey and Sally (Knight) Gallaher. He has one sister surviving, Mrs. Rhoda Woods, of Overton, an early settler of Hamilton. The Gallaher family is of English descent and its representatives were early settlers of Brown comity, Illinois. Harvey Gallaher served in the civil war and died in Brown county. His wife was also born in Illinois and died in Colorado. When about fourteen years of age, Charles L. Gallaher left home for Fairfield, Iowa, and there learned the trade of butcher. In 1886 he went on to Nebraska, locating in Broken Bow. Custer county. He was married at the home of the bride's mother in Custer county, on September 4, 1887, to Miss Mary E. Twombly, also a native of Brown county, Illinois, who came with her family to Saunders county in 1881. She is a daughter of Calvin and Susan (Wiley) Twombly, natives respectively of Vermont and North Carolina. Her father died in Brown county, in 1867, and her mother in Custer county, October 29, 1905. Mrs. Gallaher has a brother, Thomas E., and a half brother, Charles Bedford, living in Custer county, a brother in Kansas and one in South Dakota. In 1883 Mary E. Twombly came with her two brothers, Charles and Samuel, to Custer county and herself took a homestead of one quarter of section twenty-seven, township eighteen, range eighteen, which is still her home. Mr. Gallaher served several years as moderator of school district number two hundred and forty-two and stood well with his fellow citizens. He was all active and industrious farmer and interested in everything pertaining to the general welfare and progress. He died in a hospital in Lincoln, February 17, 1907, being survived by his widow and five children. Five children were born to him and his wife: Eva May, deceased Oliver P., Alice, Charles Elmer, Rena and Bell. Mrs. Gallaher, with the assistance of her two sons, still carries on the farm. They own four hundred and twenty acres of good stock and grain farm land, from which they derive a good income. They have one of the pleasant homes of the neighborhood and are held in high esteem by all. Source: Compendium of history, reminiscence, and biography of Nebraska, Chicago: Alden Publishing Company, 1912, page 598
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- James H. Gallaher 1844–1917
- Amanda Gallaher Nokes 1847–1906
- Rhoda Ellen Gallaher Woods 1849–1932
- Daniel Lee Gallaher 1854–1911
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