Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Charles Betts Galloway Papers (Z/0005).
Creator/Collector: Charles Betts Galloway.
Date(s): 1875-1904; n.d.
Size: 0.50 c. ft.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, prior to 1980.
Provenance: Gift of unknown donor before January 1946; Z/0005.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: The Charles Betts Galloway Papers passed into the public domain on January 1, 2003, and are no longer protected by copyright.  We ask that MDAH be cited in publications as the repository of the collection.

Preferred citation: Charles Betts Galloway Papers (Z/0005), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

Charles Betts Galloway

Charles Betts Galloway, son of Elizabeth Adelaide Dinkins Galloway (1825-1873) and Charles Betts Galloway (1825-1877), was born in Kosciusko, Attala County, on September 1, 1849. Charles was one of eight siblings, including Sophia Galloway (1847-1918), William A. Galloway (1851-1890), Margaret Galloway (1852-1918), Columbus Galloway (1855-1916), Elizabeth Dinkins Galloway (1858-1874), and James G. Galloway (1861-1947). 

He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1868 and began teaching a Sharon College in Madison County. In November 1868, he received his first appointment as an itinerant minister in the Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 

On September 1, 1869, Charles married Harriet "Hattie" Elizabeth Willis in Warren County, Mississippi.  The couple had six children, including Willis Estelle Galloway (1870-1931), Hallie Galloway (1872-1923), Charles B. Galloway (1874-1902), Margaret Galloway (1877-1953), and Ethelbert Hines Galloway (1879-1930). 

After serving at several churches, including churches in Vicksburg and Jackson, he was appointed as a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in May 1886. He served in this capacity until his death on May 12, 1909, in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.  He is buried near family in Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi.

 

Scope and Content Note:

The collection is comprised of correspondence, sermons, addresses, financial material, newsclippings, and pamphlets. The correspondence covers 1888-1904 with the bulk of the correspondence dealing with church-related matters. There are sixty-seven (67) sermons and addresses (most of them undated) in the collection. Many of the sermons are fragmentary. See below for a title listing of the sermons and addresses.

 

Series Identification:

Series 1: Correspondence. 1880-1904; n.d. 136 items.
Box 1, folders 1-7

Series 2: Sermons and Addresses. 1875; 1879; n.d. 67 items.
Box 2, folders 1-3

Series 3: Financial Papers. 1879, 1885 2 items.
Box 2, folder 4

Series 4: Newsclippings. n.d. 3 items.
Box 2, folder 5

Series 5: Pamphlets. n.d. 2 items.
Box 2, folder 6

 

Box List:

Box 1
Folder 1: Correspondence. 1888, February - July, 1889.
Folder 2: Correspondence. August - October 1889.
Folder 3: Correspondence. November - December 1889.
Folder 4: Correspondence. January - February 1890.
Folder 5: Correspondence. March - December 1890.
Folder 6: Correspondence. 1891-1895; 1897-1898; 1901; 1904.
Folder 7: Correspondence. n.d.

Box 2
Folder 1: Sermons. Numbered 1-15.
Folder 2: Sermons. Numbered 16-30 (#23 missing).
Folder 3: Sermons. Numbered 31-68, with 39-68 being untitled fragments.
Folder 4: Financial Papers. 1879, 1885.
Folder 5: Newsclippings. n.d.
Folder 6: Phamplets. n.d.

 

Appendix: Series 2: List of Sermons and Addresses by Title:

1. The Excellent Woman, Acts 9:38 (6 1/2 pp.) 
2. Influence and Mission of Southern Womanhood (24 pp.) 
3. Christ, The Christian Life, Phil. 1:21 (4 pp.) 
4. Sowing by the Wayside, Luke 8:5 (1 p.) 
5. Some Illustrious Dances (20 pp.) 
6. A Commencement Address (24 pp.) 
7. Conviction of Sin, John 16:8 (6 pp.) 
8. Resurrection of Christ, Luke 24:34 (11 pp.) 
9. Union Church, December 1879, Luke 16:26 (24 pp.) 
10. The Valley of Dry Bones, Ezekiel 37:1-10 (19 pp.) 
11. Parable of the Barren Fig Tree, Luke 13:69 (11 pp.) 
12. Universality of the Atonement, Rev. 22:17 (16 pp.) 
13. The Self-Conquest of Moses (7 pp.) 
14. Christ's Baptism of Sufferings, Luke 12:50 (4 pp.) 
15. Life and Times of Elijah, I Kings 19:13-18 (1 p.) 
16. Bringing Men to Jesus, John 1:42 (21 pp.) 
17. English History from Alfred the Great to William the Conqueror (7 1/2 pp.) 
18. Sunday School Address, delivered at Madison Station, June 24, 1875 (12 pp.) 
19. The Wonderful Name, Isaiah 9:16 (24 pp.) 
20. Attachment to the House of God, I Chron. 29:3 (4 pp.) 
21. The Strait Gate, Luke 13:24 (6 pp.) 
22. The Law of Service, Matt. 20:26-27 
23. Address at the unveiling of portrait of Rev. J. N. Waddell (6 pp.) (missing) 
24. untitled (17 pp.) 
25. Infant Baptism, Acts II 38-39 III 25 (3 pp.) 
26. Scripture study by Chas. B. Galloway (19 pp.) 
27. Lesson from the Life of Mary Somerville (7 pp.) 
28. Mary Somerville (7 pp.) 
29. Pastoral Instruction of Children (4 1/2 pp.) 
30. The Doom of the Wicked (3 pp.) 
31. The Duel (1 1/2 pp.) 
32. Methodism: A Child of Providence (3 pp.) 
33. The Baptists Embassy to Jesus, Luke 7:1823 (4 pp.) 
34. Glorying in the Cross, Gal. 614 (4 pp., frag.) 
35. Psa. XCII12 "The Righteous Shall Flourish Like the Palm Tree" (4 pp., frag.) 
36. Holding the Dust Pan (1 p., frag.) 
37. Elijah Steele, an Apostle of the Early South West (4 pp., frag.) 
38. Public Morals (3 pp., frag.) 
Items 39-68 are untitled fragments.