Notes for John Galbraith

GAYLE AND MARTY GALBRAITH GENEALOGY

Notes for John Galbraith

The 1850 Census of Saline Co, Illinois shows the following Galbraiths in one household:
Galbraith, John Age 59 Male, Farmer
Galbraith, Rebecca, Age 47, Female
Galbraith, James, Age 28, Male, Laborer
Galbraith, Milton, Age 22, Male, Laborer
Galbraith, Oliver, Age 16, Male, Laborer
Galbraith, John, Age 14, Male
Galbraith, William, Age 11, Male
Galbraith, Samuel, Age 5, Male
Hancock, Emily, Age 73, Female

The above info found at ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/saline/census/1850/pg00037.txt

There is a question of why John is called William in the paper "The Pioneer Family GALBRAITH". This paper names William Galbraith Sr. as the Galbraith Patriarch born in about 1796 as the husband of Rebecca Lucas or Jackson (maiden name uncertain) and as the father of all the above children. This paper mentions that William and Rebecca are buried in "Old Rough" cemetery in southeast Hamilton Co on RFD #2. On the other hand, Jim Nerone sent me photos of John and Rebecca's gravestones. With the correct dates of birth and death shown. Also, the Franklin County Marriage Records show his son, Henry married to Malissa E Perryman Auten. The marriage citation lists Henry's parents as Joseph Galbraith and Rebecca Jackson. There is still a puzzle to solve here. Most likely John's full name was John Joseph Galbraith. Its hard to believe one of his children would not get his name correctly on a marriage license.

The following is text from "The Pioneer Family GALBRAITH":

William Galbraith Sr. was born in North Ireland of Scotch-Irish stock coming to the United States when young, he married his wife Rebecca when she was about 19. They established their home in the southeast corner of Hamilton county Illinois, and raised there family there. William Sr. was a farmer and a school teacher. Because he didn't live up until such a time as any of the oldest now or lately living can remember for certain that he did not live to become an aged man, but because he raised a large family we know he didn't die until at least middle life. He was probably born 1796, while Washington was President and George III was King of England.

We are not sure of the maiden name of Rebecca his wife, some say it was Jackson. Sam Galbraith Jr. son of Milton Sr. who personaly, as a child knew her when she lived part time in the home of his father said before his death last year, that her name was Lucas. Jim Plasters and the other old timers have believed it to be Jackson. There is a family legend so wide spread that it would appear to have some foundation, that she was a first cousin of President Andrew Jackson. The story is that they were first cousins, but the relationship may have been more distant. She lived in the home of Joseph Plasters, father of Jim and Neal Plasters part time until her death in 1890 at the ripe old age of 88. She was commonly called Granney. She came to Illinois from the state of Georgia in 1818 the year the state of Illinois became a state, She was about 16 years old at the time.

Both William Sr. and Rebecca lie buried at the old unkept cemetery near the home of the late Sam Galbraith Jr. in southeast Hamilton (I think) on R.F.D. #2. The name of the cemetery is "Old Rough" Their sons Oliver and John and their wives also lie there.

Jim Plasters an intelligent man was 20 years at the time of death of his Grandmother Rebecca and yet it appears he never had the natural curiosity to learn for certainty the name with which she was born.

The family name of Galbraith is a Scottish clan name. The clan land holdings were just South of Lock (lake) Lomand and included the city of Dumporton Scotland. Some of the Galbraiths emegrated to north Irland and from there to America, as did many other Scots, to become later known in the United States as the Scotch-Irish.