The daughter of DeFoe-112|John Marvin DeFoe]] and Mary Elizabeth (Kelley) DeFoe, Paralee DeFoe was born in Wayne County, Tennessee[citation needed] in 1869, residing with her family in Civil District 11,[1][2] where she attended school through the eighth grade;[3] however, she was not able to read or write.[4]
Paralee married George Green Gallion, marrying in Wayne County on August 20, 1890[5] having seven children together, with five living into adulthood.[6] They made their home Wayne County's Civil District 11, farming,[7] moving by 1910 to Arkansas. In 1910, they rented land and a home in Gilkerson Township.[6]
The couple may have separated; in 1920, Paralee lived with her brother, William Thomas DeFoe, and his wife, residing in Iron City, Tennessee, where Paralee listed her marital status on the 1920 federal census as "Single."[8] By 1930, Paralee and her husband again lived together, residing in a home they had purchased in Gilkerson Township, and George Gallion farmed on his own account.[4][3]
Widowed in 1942, Paralee Gallion passed in Gilkerson Township, Arkansas[citation needed] at the age of 75 and is buried at Gibson Cemetery in Craighead County, Arkansas.[9]
↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDWV-F4B : 15 January 2022), Jensie L. Defoe in household of John M. Defoe, District 11, Grainger, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.
↑ 3.03.1 "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQVD-7HH : 8 January 2021), Paralee Gallion in household of George Gallion, Otwell, Craighead, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 16-14, sheet 12A, line 8, family 215, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 128.
↑ 4.04.1 "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM2G-J88 : accessed 29 March 2022), Parlee Gallion, Gilkerson, Craighead, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 13, sheet , line , family , NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll ; FHL microfilm .
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23662244/jincy_paralee-gallion: accessed February 18, 2024), memorial page for Jincy Paralee “Parlee” DeFoe Gallion (10 Oct 1869–10 May 1945). Find A Grave: Memorial #23662244 Gibson Cemetery, Craighead County, Arkansas, USA; Maintained by Cameron Disney Darby (contributor 47173342).
Research Notes
Note received regarding Jincy Parlee DeFoe:
"...I'm the great-great-great grandson of John Marvin Defoe Jr...Jincy, his daughter, was my great-great-grandmother...Her daughter Ollie Gallion, my great grandmother, was still alive when I was a young kid and told me a story about her "Grandpa Defoe"...She said that he lost his leg during the Civil War era when a tree fell on him and broke his leg...He had a cork leg for the rest of his life...I think he was 1/2 Cherokee Indian since Jincy was 1/4 Cherokee Indian.--Tim Simmons"
That John DeFoe had a one-half Cherokee mother is family legend and widely shared, but is unproven.
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