The Gall and Williams' Genealogy
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7/ze GALL and WILLIAMS’ GENEALOGY OLIVE GALL NEWCOMER /953 °CL<'~ Zea‘-;'7=3's: Fa 929.2 G162n 1953 OF PENNSYLVANIA George G. Newcomer September 10, 1953 To the Memory of FENTON GALL whose appreciation and love for the Galls and Williams‘ and whose interest and untiring research made this Genealogy possible. /,/‘é A,....,.,.,.,__/W4.’AM S4 ' I; 4’ (V,/ft / ff‘ 3 FOREWORD Myfather, Fenton Gall, died on October 27, 1948 of heart failure. He was eighty—six years of age and had lived a very full and useful life. On October 29, 1905, he married Carra Pew of Montepelier, Ohio and Washington, D.C. Mymother died March 14, 1947. Both are buried in Fleetwood, Pa. Because so manyof our relatives went to school to him, a chron ology of his life is included. Olive Gall Newcomer Chronology of Fenton Gall's Life. Born January 4, 1862, Jackson Township, Highland Co., Ohio H Year Age 1867-78 5-16 Attended county school, October to March. 1878-79 16 Taught Smart's School, 6 mo. at $25.00 per mo. 1879-80 17 Attended 10 weeks Nat. Normal Univ. at Lebanon, 0. 1880-1881 18 Taught Smart's School, 6 mo. at $50.00 per mo. 1881-82 19 Taught Belfast School, 5 mo. at $25.00 per mo. (summer) 1882-85 20 Taught Elmville School, 6 mo. at $57.50 per mo. 1885-84 21 Attended Nat. Normal Univ. 40 wks. Received B. S. Degree 1884 22 Taught 10 weeks Normal School, Sinking Springs, 0. 1884-85 Taught near Leesburg at $45.00 per mo. 1885-86 25 Taugn:Upper RoomSinking Springs, 6 mo. at $50.00 per mo. 1886' 25 Was appointed School Examiner for Highland County, 5 years 1886-87 24 Taught Spargur's School, Paint Township, 6 mo. at $45.00 per mo. 1887-88 25 Taught school near "Uncle Wesley Gall's" 6 mo. at $45.00 per mo. 1888-89 26 Principal of North Liberty Academy, AdamsCo., 0. 1889-90 27 Principal NormalDepartment, Hillsboro College 1890-94 28-52 President of Hillsboro College, Hillsboro, Ohio 1895 55 Taught 10 weeks Normal at Marshall, Ohio and summerNormal at Fayette, Ohio. 1895-1917 55-55 Examiner and Chairman of the Board of Appeals, U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. 1917-1946 55-84 Orchardist, Berkeley Co., Martinsburg, W. Va. 1946-1948 84-86 Retired, residence, Fleetwood, Pa. PREFACE Fenton Gall began to collect and save information about his family as early as 1890. He concentrated on research on the Miller-Davis and Gall—Williamsfamilies several years before his death. I promised to publish the genealogies so we could share in his knowledge. The Miller Davis Genealogy was published late in l9h8. The cooperation of manyrelatives has enabled us to secure nearly a full record of Gall—Williams'descendants. Thanks are especially due to Mrs. Carl Deck (Nikola Shannon Gall), Wilmington, Ohio, who has been collecting data since l9hO; to Mr. John F. Gall, Norwood, Ohio; to Mrs. Cloyd Smith (Mary Williams), Canton, 0. and to all of those whosearched old letters, Bibles, church records, tombstones or in libraries for names, dates and information to help com plete family "Lines". Weappreciate the information on John Gall, brother of George Gall Sr., sent by Mrs. Neil Wood(Myra Gall) and Mrs. Oscar H. Barklage (Ina Nothstine). The method of outline is simple. The children of George Gall Jr. are given numbers without exponents, the grandchildren numbers with an exponent l, the great—grandchildren numbers with an exponent 2, etc. b. (born) d. (died) In. (married) Manycan trace their ancestry back six or seven generations. Our ancestor, GeorgeGall's son, GeorgeGall Jr., married, first, Susannah Nicholas. They had eight children. His second wife was Catherine Roads. They had thirteen children. Four of these children married Williams’. Hence there will be brief sketches on the Galls, Roads and Williams families. The Williams‘ ancestors probably came from Wales or England. Palatinate.The Galls and Roads were of German descent and probably came from the THE GALLREUNION....Since l90h... TH GEORGEGALLMEMORIALASSOCIATION..... August 29, 1905 Olive Branch Church, near where George Gall is buried. 125 present. Dr. Wm.J. McSurely of Oxford, presided. August 27, 190% Olive Branch Church, Daniel Wms.presided. 2hh present. August 26, 1905 Monumentunveiled to Geo. Gall by Anita Horst and Blanche Hiestand, gr,gr,grand daughters.‘ 271 present. August 25, 1906 HammondGrove, near Elmville. John Horst presided. Membership511. Deaths of Julia AnnGall, last surviving child of GeorgeGall, Ella Gall Seltzer and Wesley Gall were announced. August 51, 1907 Belfast CampMeeting Grounds. Daniel Williams presided. I Meetings were held at Belfast until 1958. August 12, 1958 Ft. Hill. Decided then to hold meetings the Second Sunday in August at Serpent Mound. Meetings have been held at Serpent Mound ever since then. August 9, 1953 Membership, #11. Clarence EdmundGall, Pres. Thomas Dorwin Gall, Vice Pres. Nikola Gall Deck, Sec. and Treas. TH GEORGEGALL MEMORIALASSOCIATION....From the ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION... This association shall be knownas The George Gall Memorial Association, and its principal office shall be in Hillsboro, Ohio. The purpose of this association shall be to erect a monumentto the memory of George Gall, a soldier of the Revolution, whose grave is in "The Old Dutch Cemetery", in Brushcreek Township, Highland Co., Ohio. Only lineal descendants of the said George Gall maybecome membersof this association. Each membershall receive from the association a certificate of membership showinghis or her relation to the said George Gall. This year, 1953, is the FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARYof the GALLREUNIONin Ohio and it is fitting that we have the GALL—WILLIAMSGENEALOGYatthis time. A GALLREUNIONis held each year in Barbour County, W. Va., by the descen dants of George Gall Jr.'s third child, JOHNGALL,who married (1) SARAH HAYES and (2) MARGARETARBOGAST. HISTORY ....Most persons familiar with history knowthat the PALATINATE,usedin a geographical sense, existed in two territorial divisions, upper and lower, as early as the eleventh century. The Lower, Pfalz amRhein or Halatinate on the Rhine was situated on both sides of that river and was bounded by Wurtemberg, Baden, Alsace, Lorraine, Treves and Hesse. The Upper, or Ober Pfalz, on the east, was surrounded by Bohemia, Bavaria and Nuremberg. The Palatinates were compelledto change their religion frequently to conform with the tenets of their rulers; being Catholic, Calvanistic and Lutheran successively. (Koeppen's Middle Ages.) WhenQueenAnn, of England, through her ministers abroad began to aid the French Protestants and sentassistance to the Palatinates, in Holland, the exodus of the latter and manyof the former followed. William Penn made two visits to Germany, in l67l and l677. Colonists were attracted to Pennsylvania through his agency and other colonial schemes followed. \ \ Queen Anne donated land along the Braod, Saluda, Congaree and Wateree rivers in South Carolina, near the present site of Columbia, which is still known as "Dutch Forks". Rev. Joshua Kockerthall, whowas knownas the "Joshua of the Palatines" in 1706, at Frankfort, on the Main, wrote a volume extolling the wonderful resources of this land. The influence of his book and other pamphlets induced lh,OOO Germans, French, Swabians and others to forsake their native land and cast their lot with the Palatines. (Vol. VIII, IX Pa. GermanSociety Magazine.) Blue Bookof Schuylkill County, Pa...Elliott...l9l6 "Whenthe agents sent out by William Penn came to Germany at the end of the "Thirty Years War" and gave glowing accounts of the homes that might be easily founded in the land across the sea, the poverty stricken, starv ing people jumped at the chance that was offered and made their way as best they could to the nearest seaports and started for England as the first stage of their journey to the new homebeyond the sea. They went literally by the thousands. In Mayand June, l709, the Germansbegan to arrive in London, and by October between l5,000 and lh,OOO had come. The coming into England of so large a number of destitute people with no means of sustenance presented to the English people a problem which had to be met promptly. As Dr. Diffenderffer says, "Never before were emigrants seeking new homes so poorly provided with moneyand the other necessaries of life to support them on their wayas were these Palatines...From the day of their arrival in Londonthey required the assistance of the English to keep them from starving. There was little or no work; bread was dear, and the only thing to do was to bridge the crisis by raising moneyby pub lic subscriptions." "A large amount of moneywas collected and by direction of Queen Anne, one thousand tents were taken from the Tower of London and set up in the country outside of London. In these camps many of the emigrants were shel tered, while others were housed in barns and warehouses, and some in private homes. The government took active steps to get ridfi of the foreigners as quickly as possible. Nearly four thousand of them were sent to Ireland, where their descendants live to this day." (Dr. Diffenderffer is of the opinion that if these Germancolonists did not actually establish the linen industry in Ireland they gave it such an impulse as to makeit the most important textile industry in that country.) ManyRomanCatholics who could not take the Protestant Oath of Allegiance were returned to the places from which they had come. About three thousand abjured their faith and eventu ally found their way into Pennsylvania and settled in the Tulpehockenregion. II About 650 immigrants reached the junction of the Neuse and Trent Rivers, Carolina, early in l7lO and founded NewBerne, namedafter the city in Switzerland from which their leaders came....After muchtrouble with the Indians, twelve families and fifty others went North in April, l7lh, where they settled on the RappahannockRiver in Virginia.