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SKrONT!) STUCK 10 OF .PARALYSIS IS FATAL TO HAKRIftOX T’O «V X S HIV RE SIDK X I1.SERVED THROUGHOUTTHE CIVIL WARReturning* (; Daviess County Hej Married and Taught SchoolI For Sixteen tears.. Tuesday1;-; Id;ay.I! Harrison lovnskip lost anothet ofI *mI’ its old time and most honored ciU-ii /.oils early this morning in the dm ih' of John CL Wallace, war veteran, of; Glendale. Idr. Wallace, who was onei! of the best known civil war veteransii! of the county, died about 2:15 o’clock*I this morning of paralysis. He suffered a stroke last May and a second*.r : ‘ L. * ' *stroke six weeks ago.Mr. Wallace had spent practically all of his life in Harrison township and the southern part of the county. He was seventy-four years old and was born in Veale township May 29. 1*44. His father, John Wallace, died when the deceased was only two or three years old. Sometime later he i ccompanied his mother and stepfather to Illinois where the family lived until the deceased was fifteen years old. At this age he returned to Daviess county with his step-father, who was Nicholas Wallace.At the outbreak of the war Mr. Wallace, stirred by the patriotism that swept this county, enlisted, not-; withstanding the fact he was only , sixteen years old. He entered the'army in April 1SG1 and served untilthe close of the war. He was a member of Company E, 27th Indiana regiment. Twice he was wounded, but neither time were his injuries of a serious nature. At the Battle of the Wilderness he suffered a sunstroke.Returning to this county after the close of the war Mr. Wallace taught school for sixteen years, working in Veale, Washington, Harrison and Reeve townships. In November 13 6f he married Mrs. Malissa Walker, a war widow and ten children were born to them. His widow and three children survive him. They are Roy C. Wallace, of Iowa; Mrs. Sarah Sherman, Grand Junction, Colo.; and Jesse Wallace, of Glendale. One step-son, Frank Walker,of Jonesboro, Ark., is also still living.During the later years of his life Mr. Wallace served as a justice of the peace in Harrison township. He had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1866, his membership being at Glendale at the time of his death. He also belonged to U. S. Grant Post of the G. A. R. The funeral will be held at 11 o’clockThursday morning at Mt. Gilead• f
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Daviess County Democrat
Washington, Indiana, US
Fri, Apr 18, 1919
Page 4
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Clipped by
David U.
NA, 14 Oct 2019
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