Posted on: Knox Co. Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Knox/10995 Surname: Wallace ------------------------- Anyone researching this Wallace family. If so, I would like to compare notes. Ethan Allen Wallace/Phebe Janet Wallace, married August 24, 1841 in Loraine county OH. Ethan was born in VT and Phebe in OH although birth records have not been located for either one of them at this time. Ethan fought in the War of 1812 and for his service was granted a land patent in Knox, County, IL for 160 acres. The family moved there sometime after Jul 1860 and Ethan died Jan 3, 1863 in Galesburgh, IL. So far I have not been able to locate a gravesite for Ethan. In 1878 Phebe started collecting a Widows Pension based on Ethan's military service. A grave hasn't been located for Phebe either but I have a copy of a letter written by the Clerk of the District Court of York County, Nebraska to the U.S. Government Pension office in Washington DC. The clerk states that Phebe died there on Oct 3, 1896 and was without property to pay her final expenses. He was asking that her final pension check be sent to the county to cover her final expenses. How or when Phebe got to Nebraska is unknown at this time. Perhaps one of her children moved there and she went to visit or live with them. The family had 8 children, all born in Ohio Calista Ann Wallace, b August 20, 1842. Married Theophilus Simonton Farquer on September 21, 1865 in Knox County, IL Mary Eliza Wallace, b March 07, 1844. Married Israel William Sturges on October 09, 1867 in Knox County, IL Ethan Allen Wallace, b July 12, 1845. Married Mary L. Biggerstaff on December 18, 1865 in Knox County, IL Martha Elizabeth Wallace, b May 09, 1847. Married John Charles Jacobs on January 01, 1866 in Knox County, IL Rachel O. Wallace, b July 06, 1849. Married Charles Mathews on August 25, 1870 in Knox County, IL Amanda M. Wallace, b July 30, 1855. Married Alexander Cook on January 30, 1879 in Knox County, IL Charles Louis Wallace, b May 1858. I have no further information on Charles Albert Lincoln Wallace, b July 02, 1860. I have no other information on Albert I would also like help in locating a grave for Ethan Allen Wallace which I assume is somewhere in Knox County. He was living in Haw Creek Township when he died so he is probably in a cemetery somewhere around there or around Galesburgh where he died. I also see in the 1878 History of Knox County book has something about an Ethan A. Wallace on page 712. Could someone please tell me what it says about him? Thanks Dave