96–97.  John Galbraith was born in Allen Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on Tuesday, March 29, 1785, and died in Arcanum, Darke County, Ohio, U.S.A., on September 22, 1855. He was buried at Arcanum and his gravestone bears the Masonic emblem. Elizabeth Aikman was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, on Friday, October 24, 1788, and died in Pierceton, Kosciusko County, Indiana, on January 6, 1869. She was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery near Pierceton, Indiana. They were married in Eaton, Preble County, Ohio, U.S.A., on Thursday, May 23, 1811. She took the name Elizabeth Galbraith. He is the son of Robert and Mary (Dill) Galbraith. She is the daughter of John and Mary (Dysert) Aikman. They had ten children:

i. Joseph Galbreath was born in Preble County, Ohio, U.S.A., on May 12, 1812, and died near Valparaiso, Indiana, U.S.A., on October 31, 1897. He married:
  1. Eliza Bricker, she died January 21, 1873. They had ten children: John Charles, Martin Van Buren, Charlotte, William, Nancy, Jane, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel, Lafayette, and Byron.
  2. Mrs. May (Whitney) Clover; married on September 22, 1863 in Kosciusko County, Indiana; they had two children: Edgar and Nellie.
  3. Mrs. Sarah Roadarmel; she outlived Joseph. She died in Allegan County, Michigan, U.S.A.
ii. Mary (Polly) Galbreath was born in Preble County on January 11, 1814, and died in Centertown, Missouri, U.S.A., in 1856. She married
  1. John Freeman Knife, born 1816, died 1850; they had four children: Charlotte, John Freeman, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Polk.
  2. Captain Dye
iii. John Galbreath was born in Preble County, Ohio, U.S.A, on March 11, 1816, and died on August 18, 1851. He married Alzira Offill, they had eight children: Joseph, Perry, Alexander, Martha, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Charlotte and Sarah.
iv. Elizabeth Galbreath was born near Arcanum, Ohio, U.S.A., on February 20, 1818. She and Nicholas are buried in Preble County, Ohio. She married Nicholas Offill, they had nine children: Rebecca, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Emma, Charlotte, Lafayette, Joseph, Sarah, and Jasper.
v. Benjamin Galbreath was born near Arcanum, Ohio, U.S.A., on June 15, 1820, and died on December 15, 1849. He never married.
vi. Alexander Galbreath [#48]: He was born in Darke County, Ohio, on May 6, 1822, and died in Pierceton on September 9, 1874.
vii. Jackson A. Galbreath was born in Darke County, Ohio, U.S.A., on September 1, 1824, and died in Pierceton, Indiana, U.S.A., on September 13, 1860. He married Angeline Shilt, born February 22, 1826 in York County, Pennsylvania, died May 31, 1905 in Ft. Wayne, Ind.; they had four children: Mandillie, Minerva, Lucretia, and Justus.
viii. Samuel Galbreath was born in Darke County, Ohio, U.S.A., on April 9, 1827, and died on March 23, 1910. He married
  1. Sarah Keltner in 1845, in Darke County. She was the sister of Eliza who married his brother, Alexander; the daughter of Henry and Katherine (Wirt) Keltner [#98]. They had seven children: Milton, Catherine, Alice, Oliver, Jemimah, Jackson, and Marion.
  2. Margaret Black Hibbets, they also had seven children: Mary, Martha, Ellsworth, Grant, Stanton, Viola, and Daisy
ix. Milton Galbreath was born near Arcanum, Ohio, U.S.A., on March 13, 1829, and died on May 9, 1855. He married Catherine Shilt, born 1835; they had three children: Harvey, Ellihue McNeal, and Minerva.
x. Charlotte Galbreath was born near Arcanum, Ohio, U.S.A., on September 19, 1832, and died on August 4, 1837. She died young.

Since John's father died leaving minor children, of whom he was the youngest (age 8), it is probable that John followed his older sisters and his grandmother's people to Darke County, Ohio. His mother, Mary, may have come, too. Ellihue Galbreath, son of Milton, who lived his entire life near the John and Elizabeth homestead near Arcanum, Ohio, related at 86, with memory clear, that his grandfather, John Galbreath, "came to Ohio from Pennsylvania about 1800 when he was just a boy, with his brother, James, to visit relatives." In 1818, John became a member of the Masonic Order. In the spring of 1819, he was made a Master Mason in Pickaway Lodge No. 23 at Circleville, Ohio. Entries in the lodge books are made under three different spellings: Galbreath, Galbraith, and Gilbraith. The last spelling is the one that is used in making the entry for the marriage record at Eaton, Ohio:

I do certify that John Gilbraith and Elizabeth Aikman were joined in the bonds of matrimony on the 23rd day of May, 1811, by me.
David Purviance

Per the Bureau of Land Management document #1797 (Ohio), on September 2, 1830, a John Galbreath made a land patent (original purchase from the government) of 77.52 acres in Darke County, the W½ of the SW¼, block 23, township 8N, range 3E of the West of the Greater Miami meridian. This John is most likely the subject of this page.

Both John and Elizabeth attended the Universalist Church at Castine, Ohio, where they may have been members. Elizabeth continued her allegiance to that church after John died and she had gone to live with her son, Samuel, in Pierceton,

Ellihue also related that his earliest memory was attending his grandfather's funeral when the procession was halted by the crossing of a herd of deer.

The family bible was in the hands of grandson, Robert Quinn, in the 1940's.

The will of John Galbreath was dated May 2, 1855, proved on October 5, 1855, in Darke County, Ohio, and recorded in Will Book A, Page 180. It states that after his debts, funeral expenses, and his wife's third are taken out, then:

The will was witnessed by Peter Roberson and Jacob Feltenbarger.
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