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John Morgan Wallace 1863 - 1924

John Morgan Wallace was born on October 3, 1863 in Craigsville, Virginia United States. He married Nellie Virginia (Beatty) Wallace in 1894, and they were married until Nellie's death on April 22, 1901. They had children Henry Newman Wallace Sr. and Marshall Malcolm Wallace Sr. He married Dayse Elizabeth (Walser) Wallace in 1908. They had children Mary Walser (Wallace) Kaar and Marjorie Armstrong (Wallace) Cassel. John Wallace died at age 61 years old on December 9, 1924 in Palo Alto, CA.

John Morgan Wallace

October 3, 1863

Craigsville, Virginia, 24430, United States

December 9, 1924

Palo Alto, California, United States

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John Morgan Wallace is the son of Russell Newman Wallace and Rachel Armstrong Wallace; Grandson of James Wallace and Catherine "Katy" Newman Wallace and of Archibald Armstrong and Elizabeth "Betsey" McCutcheon Armstrong; Great Grandson of Robert Wallace and Esther Boyd Wallace, of Leroy Newman and Mary Brown Newman, of William Armstrong and Margaret "Peggy" Jameson Armstrong, and of Joseph R. McCutcheon and Nancy Youell McCutcheon. His Mother, Rachel, passed away in 1869, (shortly after giving birth to his youngest sister, who died only months later) when John Morgan Wallace was only six years old. The following year, his father married again, and Mary Margaret Coffman became his step-mother. John is the brother (mother, Rachel) of James Augustus Wallace (wife Nora Engledove Wallace), William Armstrong Wallace (wife Mary Agnes "Minnie" Hobson Wallace), Alexander "Alec" Wallace (wife Nannie Coffman Wallace, niece to his Step-Mother Mary Margaret Coffman Wallace), Thomas Archibald Wallace (wife Blanche Phelps Wallace), Ella Virginia "Eileen" Wallace (Mrs. Henry Hanson), Lula Katherine Wallace (Mrs. Samuel Miller Davidson) and Rachel Elizabeth Wallace (who died at 2 months of age); Half-brother (step-mother, Mary Margaret Coffman Wallace) of Minnie Gertrude Wallace (Mrs. George Washington Yeago), Charles Eugene Wallace (wife, Fannie MacKay Wallace), Orlena Wallace (who died at the age of 2 years of whooping cough and pneumonia), Nettie Wallace (Mrs. Louis McNulty), Albert Newman Wallace (wife Lula Adella Brownlee), Maude M. Wallace (Mrs. John Olin Campbell), Allen Boyd Wallace (wife Florence Stringfellow Wallace) and Olive Cooper Wallace (Mrs. Bernard Peyton Allen); Step-brother of Edward Thomas Towberman (wife Emma Jones Towberman & later Florence Blanche Lair Towberman) and of William Kenneth Batis (Wife, Willie Archer Lewis Batis). John Morgan chose to use his middle name of "Morgan" Wallace when he moved out to California in the mid-1880's. He worked as a Quartz Miner and Rancher and married his first wife, Nellie Beatty, in 1894 in Caliente, Kern County. Morgan and Nellie were the parents of two sons, Henry Newman Wallace, born in 1895, and Marshall Malcolm Wallace, born in 1896. Life was not easy for the early pioneering families, and, sadly, Nellie died in April of 1901. In 1906, Morgan married Dayse Elizabeth Walser, the daughter of one of his friends and fellow Miner and Rancher, Daniel Walser. Morgan and Dayse had a daughter in 1907 who died shortly after her birth. They then moved with Morgan's two young sons to Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, and soon had two more daughters together, Mary Walser Wallace in 1908 and Marjorie Armstrong Wallace in 1914. Morgan often sent photographs of his life in California back to his sister, Lula, in Virginia. Sometime around 1916, Morgan and Dayse and their young daughters traveled back to his family home in Virginia to visit the family. By this time, there were a good number of other Wallace and Armstrong and McCutcheon siblings and cousins who were also building their lives and careers in California, so Morgan and his family were not alone out there. Morgan's sister, Eileen Wallace, had moved out to Oakland, California, in 1906 and the siblings all remained quite close to one another. Morgan and Dayse and their four children continued to reside in Santa Rosa, where Morgan operated a farm. His two sons served in the Army during WWI and worked as Surveyors in Sonoma County, where they married and raised their own families. Sometime after 1920, Morgan and Dayse and their two daughters relocated to Palo Alto, in Santa Clara County. John Morgan Wallace passed away on 9 December 1924 and is buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California. He is remembered by all of the families who knew and loved him and who passed along their memories in stories and photographs.
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1863

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October 3, 1863

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Craigsville, Virginia 24430, United States

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1924

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December 9, 1924

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Palo Alto, California United States
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In 1863, in the year that John Morgan Wallace was born, on January 1st, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation made the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states an official war goal. It also immediately freed 50,000 slaves, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced into Confederate states. The Proclamation wasn't a Congressional law - it was an Executive Order.

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In 1893, he was 30 years old when on May 5th, a crash on the New York Stock Exchange started a depression that lasted 4 years. It was the beginning of the Panic of 1893.

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John Morgan Wallace Oct 3, 1863 - Dec 9, 1924

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Nellie Virginia (Beatty) Wallace