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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Parantage of Mamie Galloway Hendricks

Proof of Mamie Galloway Hendricks's parents was difficult to come by, but I think I have a good trail to follow in order to prove who they were.

On Find-A-Grave, as well as several trees, she is listed as the daughter of Oscar S. Galloway and his wife Lou Annie Bryant.  I feel this is incorrect.  Oscar and Lou Annie do not show a daughter in their home named Mamie for any census record.  The supposed placement of Mamie as Oscar and Lou Annie's daughter comes from her obituary that apparently states she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Galloway.

So, I began to search.  I looked all over familysearch.org but did not find anything that proved Mamie was or was not Oscar's daughter.  I then moved my search to other member trees to see what they said about Mamie.  I found the tree of one of my close cousins who had Mamie as Oscar's daughter.  He is a good researcher, so I put weight on what he states.  I was still a little leery of accepting this, since no Mamie is in the census records with Oscar's family. So, I looked at Oscar in my cousin's files and noticed he had some newspaper articles.

These are the articles he had posted:
1926:  "The Pickens Sentinel", Pickens, SC, issue of 18 Feb. 1926: "Lon Galloway in Pickens County Jail Charged With the  Murder of Al Ramey - O. S. (Lon) Galloway is in the Pickens county jail charged with the murder of Al Ramey at a whiskey still in Laurel Fork on Thursday, February 11.  ......Al Ramey's dead body was found by George Holcombe last Friday.....O. S. (Lon) Galloway is a well known character in this county.  He is some sort of a preacher, but it is said not ordained.  His wife and nine children live at one of the mills in Liberty, but it is understood that Galloway has not lived with them for some time."
1926:  "The Pickens Sentinel", Pickens, SC, issue of 10 June 1926: "Galloway Gets Life Imprisonment - Found Guildy of Murder of Al Ramey; Jury Recommends Mercy of the Court - ........"
1937:  "The Pickens Sentinel", issue of 14 Oct 1937:"Galloway is Freed from State Bastile .

I noticed the (Lon) which is usually not a nickname for Oscar, so I went back on the search for a Lon/Lonnie/Alonzo who might have a daughter named Mamie and I found Alonzo S. Galloway and his wife Lela who had a daughter named Mamie who was born at the right time.  Also in 1920, Alonzo's name was recorded as Olonso, making his initials O. S. 

After some more looking, I found that Alonzo was most likely the O. S. Galloway mentioned in the articles.  In 1930, there is an Alonzo Galloway who is listed as an inmate in Richmond, SC while Oscar is at home with his family.  If Oscar had been the one accused of murder, he would be in jail, not with his family since he was not released until 1933.

So, in conclusion, I feel that the O. S. Galloway listed as Mamie's father is actually Alonzo Galloway and not Oscar Galloway and have reflected this believe in my tree.