----- Original Message ----- From: Eileen To: Robrich649@cs.com Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 3:52 PM Subject: Results/Wallace/El Dorado County Hello Roberta: I got a chance to go to the county today, I have good news and bad news. I didn't find Sarah and Thomas exactly but what I did find may help. I was looking for someone else actually and Wallace jumped out at me. Here is what I found: WALLACE 3 Aug 1879 7 months 4 days S/O Thomas and Sarah WALLACE This is in the records of the Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery. I was just there yesterday. Now let me tell you the bad news. The M.E. Cemetery used to be located at the corner of Cedar Ravine and Main St. in Placerville. I am not sure how or why the following happened but it was paved over. Where it was there is a building sitting in a cut out of the mountain. There are parts, (I don't believe all) of the cemetery at the top of the hill where the Methodist Church was moved and the Federated Pioneer Church is now. The head stones are laying down, broken and in no particular order. It is in shambles, what there is of it. From the list at the county and seeing it with my own two eyes I really don't believe all were moved. I will go back as soon as I can and look through the headstones for Thomas, Sarah or baby WALLACE. Since Thomas and Sarah are not mentioned on the county list I don't expect to find them there but I will continue to look for them in other places. I talked to the clerk about this terrible act of defacing cemeteries by paving over them and she is just as upset but says it was legal as long as they provided a list of the people that were buried there to the county. It is still legal in the Catholic Church to pave over a Cemetery but it can only be used for a church or a park. I am sorry I don't have more but I will keep you on my list for when I get caught up and will go to M.E. soon. Let me know if I can help in any other way and I'll let you know if I find any other tid bits. Eileen Gillette Researcher, El Dorado County