The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-08-26
CAPT. GALLOWAY
JOINS COMRADES
WHO WORE CRAY
Spirit OF GALLANT SOLDIER
AND LAWMAkER CROSSES
GREAT DIVIDE.
LANG, DISTINGUISHED CAREER
Three Times Representative In the
legislature. Prominent In the
Church and Loyal to Every Duty
and obIneation OF Life.
From Saturdays Daily Herald.)


After an illness of many weeks
Cant. William Thomas Galloway, gal
liant Confederate soldier Christian
gentleman, incorruptible lawmaker,
citizen sans reproache, died at his
home In the fifth district at 11:45
o'clock To-day. He was rs on June 6.
Death was expected. For more
than a month the end had been re-
garded as a matter of time only. For
the past forty.eight hours the gallant
uatient had been In state of coma
and the final summons was almost mo-
mentarily expected. No more patient
sufferer ever went to his reward than
this splendid old soldier. He faced
death as calmly and as bravely in his
home as he had on a hundred bat
tlefields when he barred his breast to
the invaders of his beloved South.
land
Capt. Galloway is survived by his
devoted wife, who was Miss Bette
Smith They had walked the pathway
OF life together for fifty-six years in
perfect trust and confidence. Three
children also survive him, Mrs. Aude
Denton, of this county; Prof. Walton
Galloway, OF the Rockefellow founda-
ton, and Clyde Galloway, Of Carthage,
Mo-
When mere youth Capt. Galloway
answered the call Of the South to
arms No more gallant soldier ever
wore the beloved gray. His comrades
always testified to his devotion to
duty and his superb courage. He was
faithful then as In after life he was
faithful to every trust reposed in him.
Capt Galloway had long, useful
and distinguished career. He took his
duties as a citizen seriously. He ac-
cepted in good faith his parole at the
close of the civil war and returned to
home devastated by war. But with
that dauntless courage that ever char
acterized him he took up the plow and
the hoe and began to repair the raw
ages of an awful conflict although for
years an alien in his native land.
He was born in this county and liv-
ed here all of his life. He was devot-
ed to every interest of Maury county.
He loved its soil, its people and its
institutions with patriotic intensity
He took an active part in every move
ment for the advancement of his fell
low citizens. He never avoided an Is
sue or shirked duty. He was safe
advisor and wise counsellor.
Capt. Galloway filed with fidelity
many positions of public trust. In
all of his long career no breath of
suspicion ever attached to his name;
no constituent was ever long in doubt
about his position on any issue.
At various time Capt Galloway was
urged for the legislature but 1t was not
until the legislative convention Of
1906 that he was accorded the nomi-
nation for the house of representa-
tives. The late Capt. A. A. Lipscomb
was his associate. They were elected
and Capt Galloway with his colleague
put through the bill that abolished sa-
looms in Maury county. Tremendous
pressure was brought to bear upon
him by the then Gov. Patterson, to
support the administration measures
which he did not sanction. but he
Spurned all advances.
Two years later Capt. Galloway was
again nominated and elected to the
house. He was one of the leaders In
the enactment of the state wide prohi-
oition law and in the reform Of the
election laws. In 1910 he supported
GOV Hooper for chief executive and
was third time elected to the house
IN one of the bitterest contests ever
known in the history of Maury coun-
y He took a commanding place in
the sessions of 1911. When the two
houses met in joint convention to
eject United States senator, Capt.
galloway placed Luke Lea in nomina.
tlon aud he was always the loyal
friend and supporter of that brilliant
young Tennesean. He was not can
u'da'u in 1912 and held no other office
except that of secretary of the county
highway commission to which he was
appointed by the late Judge Mcknight.
He vas not candidate for re-appoint-
meni and with the approach of infirm-
a'IeS withdrew from active participa-
uol in public affairs, although he new
81 allied to vote and to make his In
1lence felt in any contest that in
'o' ed moral issue.
hlring the late war Capt. Galloway
va intensely patriotic. He respond
ed 10 every call of his country and he
gave to its cause that same unselfsh
ue'oticn that in the bloom of youth
ne Lad given without reservation to
'hT cause of the Southland.
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