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Joseph F. McGalliard was born in McDowell County, N. C., in 1842, and is a son of David and Catherine (England) McGalliard. His grandfather, James McGalliard, was a native of Scotland, who came to America with his family and engaged in farming and tobacco raising. David was born in North Carolina, in Burke County, has been an active man and well-to-do farmer, and is now living in McDowell County, N. C., at the age of ninety. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. By his first marriage he had two children, named Nancy and Caroline, and by his second marriage, to the mother of our subject, fourteen children were born: James (deceased), Thomas, William, Wesley, Joseph, Robert, Sarah, Lucinda, Catherine, Rebecca (deceased), Margaret (deceased), Mary, Eliza, America. James died while imprisoned at Rock Island during the war. Mrs. McGalliard is still living with her husband, aged eighty-two, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. She still enjoys good health, but the eyesight of her husband is almost gone. Joseph F. grew to maturity in McDowell County, and upon the commencement of the war enlisted in Company B, Thirty-fifth Regiment North Carolina Volunteers, Confederate Army. He received two slight wounds, and at the close of the war worked for his father for three years. He afterward attended school in East Tennessee for ten months, and in 1869 came to Arkansas. He was married in Franklin County, and in 1874 located where he now lives, in White River Valley. Mr. McGalliard is a successful farmer, owning 311 acres of land, ninety being highly cultivated. His wife, Mary J. (Marrs) McGalliard, was born in Madison County, and is a daughter of M. L. Marrs. She has borne the following children: Minnie, Mattie, America (deceased), Robert, Dora (deceased), Maud, Clara and Alice. Mr. and Mrs. McGilliard are active members of the Primitive Methodist Church. Mr. McGalliard is a stanch Democrat, and a Master Mason.