Mark Gallimore
Mark Gallimore was born in Greene County, Ohio, January 5, 1824. He is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth Gallimore. On the 18th of April, 1844, he married Miss Margaret J. Wilson, of Greene County, Ohio, born September 22, 1827. Mr. and Mrs. Gallimore came to Shelby County in the autumn of 1844, and located in Dinsmore Township. They lived on several different farms until 1854, when he purchased and settled on the farm in section 11, Dinsmore Township, on which he has since resided, and followed farming. His wife died September 20, 1861, leaving a husband and eight children, four sons and four daughters, to mourn the loss of a wife and mother. One of the sons, Lewis C. Gallimore, enlisted in Company G, 6th Regiment of the Veteran Reserve Volunteers. He was wounded in battle, from the effects of which he died April 13, 1870. The other seven children are yet living. On the 1st of January, 1862, Mr. Gallimore married Mrs. Rachel Ogan, née Clutch, then of Sidney, but a native of Warren County, Ohio, where she was born August 31, 1816. By this union be has one child, viz., Edwin. In August, 1862, Mr. Gallimore enlisted in Company H, 99th O. V. l., and served about eighteen months, or until April, 1864, when he was discharged from the service on account of disability.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883