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Thomas Hinckley was Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1681 to 1688.
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Glenn Dean Gallup III writes this about his parents and sister: "My mother, Dorothy Faye Wattonville was born 1913 in Albert Lea Minnesota. [The compiler of this genealogy found reports of her being born in 1909 in Pomeroy, IA] The marriage produced two children who survived to adulthood. In between was another girl who died shortly after birth. My sister Valerie currently lives in the Houston area and is a lab tech in an area hospital. My father was an insurance adjuster. He worked for 2 large companies in Texas. We had a neighbor whose mother lived in Napa California. The neighbor came to visit her and returned to Texas raving about the scenery and the climate. We already had family in the LA area so Dad came west for a reconnaissance lap. He got a job offer so we came west in September of 1953. Dad worked as an adjuster for 37 years and followed that career with 5 years in the Assessors' office in Stockton. This was during the time of the property tax revolt in California so his great powers of persuasion and people skills were an enormous asset to the Assessors' office. There are still people there who remember his ability to pour oil on very troubled waters. He very seldom let you see how smart he was and how far ahead he was thinking."
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Glenn and Faye's son, Glenn Dean Gallup III writes:
"I know less about my mothers' family than my fathers. The Wattonvilles came from the East of France, a small village called Watronville. I think the name of the village was anglicized giving Wattonville. The family legend has two brothers, both prosperous farmers, departing with the clothes on their backs and what they could carry sometime during the French revolution, 1793 or thereabouts. They settled in the Mississippi Valley. My grandfather Edwin was born in 1875 and went too work in the fields at the age of nine. By eleven he was doing a mans work seven days a week. He was as a result a very hard man. He farmed in Iowa, later being the postmaster of Pomeroy, Iowa during WW1. I knew him very well as he lived in Minneapolis and we went to visit often when we vacationed. He was a very stern taskmaster, absolutely no nonsense and brooked no fooling around when he taught you something. Dad Watt could do anything with his hands, carve and whittle, paint, woodwork and carpentry. In 1955 or thereabouts he sold his house on Oakland Avenue in Minneapolis and moved to Los Angeles. He worked unit the age of 91 and actively sought employment until his accidental death in 1970. My Grandmother Dorothy Wattonville was a house wife, she had great artistic ability and two of her paintings hang in our home. She died in 1945 or 46. The Wattonvilles had three children, my Uncle Nealon, whose descendants' farm in Iowa now, my mother Dorothy Faye who died in 1984, and my Aunt Ada. Ada passed on in 1954 on thereabouts I know very little about Uncle Neal. My Aunt Ada married Gunnar Hedemark who came to America at seventeen from Oslo Norway. Gunnar and Ada bought a restaurant/coffee shop in the Twin Cities area, I don't remember if it was Minneapolis or St Paul. It was called Christensens Pancake House. I remember it having a show kitchen it front where two or three good-looking young ladies in Scandinavian attire made pancakes all day. Uncle Gunnar became great pals with my dad and they used to visit us in Houston. Gunnar and Ada were a very striking couple, both of them were very attractive people. They had no children. Around 1949 they sold the business and came to Los Angeles where Gunnar dabbled in a lot of different businesses. After my Aunt died I stayed in touch with Gunnar until his death in the early 1980's."