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Submitted: 4/13/14 • Approved: 4/13/14 • Last Updated: 3/11/18 • R30863-G0-S3
June 15, 1816 - March 4, 1871
William Donaldson Wallace, sixth child of William and Mary Ann (Nesbitt) Wallace, was born 15 June 1816 in Blount County, Tennessee. He married Martha Jane Jones 10 May 1836 at Randolph County, Missouri.
Census records show him in Randolph Co., Missouri in 1840; in Davis Co., Iowa in 1850; in Putnam Co., Missouri in 1860; and in Bourbon Co., Kansas in 1870.
The following comes from the Wallace Family Genealogy, by Mrs. Glen E. Rush (1961):
William Donaldson Wallace at an early age was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church, at a Meeting of the Synod, in southern Iowa, and served congregations in that state, also in Missouri, and in Kansas for many years.
In those pioneer days he soon saw the need of giving physical aid, as well as spiritual, for doctors were few and far between and he saw much suffering among the people whom he served. As a result, he took up the study of medicine in order that he might be to them a servant indeed.
His death occurred on March 3, 1871, but a few days before, he had gone out in a storm to a sick bed when he, himself, was not feeling well. Neuralgia developed which reached the brain. His resting place is in Mason Cemetery, Bourbon County, Kansas.
Martha Jones-Wallace died August 2, 1882, of Bright's disease. Her resting place is in Old Benton Cemetery, Benton, Butler Co., KS.
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Contributed on 4/13/14
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