Peter G. Gallop

Peter Gamil Gallop was the son of Levi M. Gallop and Martha Ann Murrell/Merrill. Peter was a mail carrier at the age of 17. At the age of 18 he married Flora Belle Montague in Manteo, Dare Co., NC on August 8, 1895. He was average size, but put on more weight as he grew older. Peter was lighthouse keeper in Lowland for a time but by 1910 the family had moved back to Currituck County. He was also a lighthouse keeper in Chrisfield, Maryland and at the mouth of Pamlico Sound in North Carolina. In 1913 he lost his little four year old daughter, Minnie, (she is buried in Chrisfield, Md) but due to a bad ice storm he was alone in the lighthouse for 30 days, not knowing if the light would go out with the ice or not.