Notes for Lewis A Alloway

Family Group Sheet

Notes for Lewis A Alloway

from pages 265 of "Saga of the Missouri River Reveille"

The roots of the Alloway family have not, as yet been traced. Family tradition states that all Alloway's came from one family that migrated to the United States from the British Isles. Some claim to be English ancestry. Others point to the place called "Alloway" located in Scotland just across the channel from Ireland and also call attention to the mention of the Alloway Kirk in Robert Burns' Tam O'Shanter and declare that the Alloway's came from County Ayr in Scotland.
The mention of the family who came to Gregory County was Benton Douglas Alloway whose oldest brother, twenty-five years his elder, fought in the Civil War. Benton, born July 22, 1851, had three brothers who became ministers and three sisters.

Lewis Addley Alloway (1873 - 1938) was old enough to establish his own homestead when the Benton Alloway's returned to the Bonesteel area. He acquired a homestead which is located half-mile west and two miles north of Bonesteel. He made a small dam across the creek and in the winter cut ice which he sold in Bonesteel and to farmers of the surrounding area. He married Alda Pearl Ekleberry, December 24, 1902 and they lived on the homestead until their oldest son, Howard, was in his early teens. The first daughter, Agnes, died as a child and is buried in the Bonesteel cemetery. Delores, of Colorado, Everett, and Eugene of Wyoming, were all born near Bonesteel.
Because of inadequate rain resulting in poor crops in the Carter area where they had moved when they left Bonesteel, the Lewis Alloway family moved to Wheatland, Wyoming, were they were living when Lewis died of cancer around 1938. Surviving her husband for many years, Alda led an active life until a short time before her death in Brighton, Colorado, in the early 1970's.