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Solomon Lightfoot
(1783-After 1850)
Susanna Vink
(1792-After 1850)
James A. Fortune
(1812-1877)
Susan Lightfoot
(1815-1892)
Josephine R. Fortune
(1842-1872)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Watson Gealy

Josephine R. Fortune 1 2 3

  • Born: 1842, Pennsylvania 2
  • Marriage (1): Watson Gealy on 15 March 1865 1
  • Died: 1 April 1872 at age 30 1 3
  • Buried: 1872, Pittsburgh, PA 3
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bullet  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1870 US Census in Rochester, PA on 11 July 1870. 2

1870 US Census
Page 23, Dwelling 170, Family 186
Rochester, Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Josephine Galey..27..PA..At Home
(Living with husband and 2 children.)
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• She was buried in 1872 in the Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, PA.

Find A Grave Memorial 122357398
. 3


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Josephine married Watson Gealy, son of William Gealy and Sarah W. Harris, on 15 March 1865.1 (Watson Gealy was born on 7 May 1840 in New Bedford, PA 1 2 and died on 6 December 1870 1.)

bullet  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1870 US Census in Rochester, PA on 11 July 1870. 2

1870 US Census
Page 23, Dwelling 170, Family 186
Rochester, Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Watson Galey..30..PA..Dry Goods Merchant
Josephine Galey..27..PA..At Home
Blanch Galey..4..PA..At Home
James Galey ..1 ..PA..At Home
Edith Fortune..5..PA..At Home
William Fortune..3..PA..At Home
Marey Fortune..69..PA..At Home
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Sources


1 Lane Galey, "Galey-Gealy Family," database, RootsWeb (https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ldgaley).

2 1870 U.S. census, population schedule, Rochester, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, p. 23, dwelling 170, family 186, Watson Gealy and Josephine R. Fortune; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 14 Feb 2019); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593.

3 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ ); accessed 9 March 2019), memorial page for Josephine Fortune Gealy (unknown\endash 1872), Find A Grave Memorial no. 122357398, citing Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA


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