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I don't know that these Gallihers/Gollihers are the ones I'm related to, but I picked up below info from the "Quincy and Adams County" history book in the Quincy, IL library (pp. 1461-1463), and thought it might be of use to someone...
"JAMES MADISON GOLLIHER, now living retired at Barry, was one of the young men of Adams County who went away to serve the Union cause in the Civil war. That service is noteworthy in itself, but it also had consequences that have affected the entire subsequent career of Mr. Golliher, since it imposed infirmities that have always been more or less of a handicap, and the success he has gained as a farmer stands out the more conspicuous on account of the obstacles overcome.
Mr. Golliher was born near Athens, Tennessee, May 30, 1844. The family name was originally spelled Galliher. His parents, Mathew and Almira (Sparks) Golliher, were both natives of Tennessee. When James M. was only three years old, in 1847, and yet old enough to have some recollection of the circumstances, the family came to Adams County, making the journey overland from Tennessee. Their first location was at Kingston, then a crossroads village. For a time his father rented the Morris Kelley farm in Liberty Township, but soon bought eight acres of wild land in the same township, and went industriously to work clearing it up and making a farm. It was on that place that his years were spent, and he died there in 1865, at the age of forty-five. His widow survived him nearly forty years. She was well preserved almost to the last and for many years lived in Quincy, but spent her last years with her son James M. She died April 22, 1902. Both parents are now at rest at Pleasantview, three miles east of Liberty and not far from their old home. Mathew Golliher was a well known character in the early days of Adams County. He had much ability as a singer, and used that art frequently for entertaining a crowd. He was deeply interested in current political discussions, could talk ably and forcibly on the leading questions, and was one of the dependable campaign workers in some of the early elections in which the republican party was represented. He was never affiliated with any church. He was also known as an expert rifle shot, shooting offhand and without rest and seldom competing in any local match without getting some of the prizes. He and his wife had eight children who grew up: Joann, who married William Craig and spent her life in Liberty Township; John H., now of Wood River, Illinois; James M.; Steven Reed, who lives in the southwestern country; Catherine, who married James Reed and lives in Liberty Township; Philip, "better known as Doc," who died at Quincy in middle life; Clay, who was killed in a runaway accident at Quincy September 14, 1899; and Abraham, who died in young manhood.
James Madison Golliher is now the only member of the family left in this section of the state. He had such educational advantages as were afforded by the local schools near his old home, and early bore a part in the work of the home farm. It was in February, 1865, at the last call for troops, that he volunteered his services and was recruited in Company C of the Fourteenth Illinois, known as "Old Bloody Fourteenth." As a recruit he joined the regiment at Morehead City in North Carolina and was with Sherman's army on the march to Goldsboro and to Newbern, and participated in the last important battle of the war at Bentonville. After that he marched up the streets of Washington in the Grand Review and soon afterwards returned to the Middle West and was paid off at Louisville, Kentucky. However, he was not discharged and was sent to Fort Leavenworth and from there was with a body of troops that marched across the plains six hundred miles toward Fort Kearney. They were engaged in that western campaign throughout the summer and had come within sight of Fort Kearney when orders reached the troops to return. Mr. Golliher received his final discharge at Springfield, Illinois. Exposure and hardship of army life brought on rheumatism, from which he has always been a more or less acute sufferer.
When he got back home he found that his father had died and he immediately took upon himself the responsibilities of looking after the farm and for seven years gave his labors and time to the family and to the support of the younger children. He also worked out as a farm hand by the month for several years both in Adams and in Pike counties.
October 17, 1869, Mr. Golliher married Miss Susan Crook. She was born near Columbus in Adams County February 29, 1848, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Edwards) Crook, who died at the respective ages of seventy-nine and seventy-five. Mrs. Golliher herself early became acquainted with toil as a means of self support and from a girl of eleven worked out, spending four years in the family of George W. Pierce in Liberty Township. At the time of their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Golliher went in debt for a farm of eighty acres in McKee Township. A year later they bought eighty acres adjoining the old home farm, where Mr. Golliher had spent his youth. They were there ten years, cleared up the land, and added another twenty acres. He also built a new house, and converted the land into a good farm. On selling that he bought the Andy Hendricks farm of two hundred six acres in Richfield Township. The price was sixty-five hundred dollars and he assumed a debt of more than half of that. During the ten years he lived there he rebuilt the house and made other improvements, but altogether that was the least fortunate period of his life. He met with a number of losses and in one winter ninety-six head of his hogs died, only one surviving. That was about the worst setback he ever had as a farmer. At the end of ten years he sold the farm and in 1905 bought the Lewton farm of sixty acres. Since then he has bought another forty acres. This place is two and a quarter miles from the old Hendricks farm and six miles from Barry. Here again he undertook the work of improvement, constructing new buildings and remodeling the old ones, and practically doubled the value of the farm while there. He followed a course of mixed farming and fed many cattle and hogs, buying stock animals and fattening for the market. In 1916 Mr. Golliher left the farm in charge of a tenant and moved to Barry. He is an intelligent landlord, looks after the repairs of the farm and does all that is required to maintain its fertility. Practically ever since he left the army he has had to use his judgment and intelligence in running his farm and depending upon other labor for much of the work. Mr. Golliher served twelve years as a road commissioner, both in Liberty and Richfield townships, was a constable in McKee Township, and has always been a stanch republican in politics, though his party affiliations have not prevented him from occasionally supporting what he considered a better man. He and his family are members of the Mount Zion Baptist Church not far from the old home in Richfield Township, and he is a charter member of the Samuel Heaton Post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Kingston.
Mr. and Mrs. Golliher had eight children. A brief record of them individually is as follows: Mathew, who lives two miles north of Barry; Calvin, near the old home in Richfield Township; Minnie, wife of John Schwank, superintendent of the Adams County Farm; Iva, wife of George W. Hendricks, a banker at Beverly; Charles, who lives near the old farm in Richfield Township; Alfred, in the draying business at Barry; Edwin, near Paloma in Adams County; and Otis, whose home is near Barry." (END of quote)
(Note: I'm looking to ID stats on an Abraham Gallaher who lived in Adams County IL around Kingston or Beverly, md. Martha Jane Sims circa 1881, had two daughters (Sarah Alice and Elva), and died circa 1886. Need Abe's parents, b. and d. records, marr. record, burial site, etc., etc. Thanks to anyone who can help, particularly if you can establish whether the Abraham listed in above article is MY Abraham...Susan Denkler)
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