City: Columbia
GALLOWAY, William Thomas, farmer; born Glendale, Maury County, Tenn., June 8, 1846; son of Francis Marion and Caroline M. (Fausett) GALLOWAY; Scotch, Irish, and English descent; educated country schools and at Jackson College, Columbia, Tenn.; married Elizabeth R. SMITH, February 4, 1866; member K. of P.; Representative of Maury County in the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth General Assemblies (lower house) of the State of Tennessee; entered the Confederate service as private of Company E., First Tennessee Cavalry (WHEELER), in 1864, and was paroled at Charlotte, N. C., in May, 1865; served with (Joe WHEELER’s Cavalry) in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina until surrendered by Gen. JOHNSON in 1865; supported the Pendleton bill and all temperance legislation in both sessions of the Legislature under which he served; in addition to farming he has owned Nashville & Decatur Railroad stock, stock in B. & L. Association, and at present owns bank stock; member Cumberland Presbyterian Church and adhered to the Union in the union with the U. S. A. Presbyterian Church.
