Gallant Family

The Steele Creek Historical and Genealogical Society
Of the Old Steele Creek Township
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Families of Steele Creek:
Gallant

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Gallant Letter  | 

GALLANT LETTER

(Thanks to our member, John Gallant, for sending us copies of several letters from Gallants, one dated June 16, 1927 to Mr. J. B. Gallent of Clinton, Laa from (Grandpa) W. A. Gallant. In the letter, W. A. (1847-1928) is answering questions regarding the Gallants in York County, SC and Steele Creek. The letter is quit long but a portion has been included here that we will all find very interesting. Copied as it was written.)

As to who Steven Gallent is and where did he come from, the first of Steven Gallents folks to visit our folks at Bethany was W. L. Gallent from Steel Creek, North Carolina. We all called him Will, his first visit was in spring of 1880 and he made 4 visits from 1880 to 1894, on his 3 trips his Bro. Burt came with him and when they returned my Bro. Llwellyn went home with them and spent a month over there. Will Gallent was always in the agency Business. But I am going to fast, on Will G. first trip he told us that until after the Civil War his pa lived in York Dist - S. C. - and that after the war up in North Carolina a township called Steel Creek, (this is incorrect as Steven Gallant was in Steele Creek in the 1850 census) the people voted a tax to build a double X rail fence all around the 6 mile square, In order to have a Stock law. So his father Steven Gallent bought land in that Steel Creek township and moved there, and that Will Gallent was living in that township when he made his first trip to Miss. - When I got your letter I wrote to my Bro. Llwellyn for some points about Uncle Steven Gallents family that he learned whilest over there. He said that there was still some traces of that old townships double rail fence to bee seen after a lapse of nearly 20 years, and that almost any where in that township was almost like being in a town… (Ed. Note: Stephen Miller Gallant was the grandfather of Franklin Miller Gallant who married Sarah Feriba Grier in 1882. They were the parents of 8 children, including Fred and Pete Gallant who lived on Sandy Porter Road) Note: It appears the fence around Steele Creek was built before the Civil War. Does anyone know anything about this fence or can someone find the records of the tax voted in to build the fence? If there were still traces of it in 1880, I wonder if there is any left now, 100 years later. See if any of your old papers or letters refer to this fence.

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