http://books.google.com/books?id=bZl4AAAAMAAJ&q=baidland#v=snippet&q=mcgrew&f=false pg. 290 Samuel Pollock Dead Samuel Pollick, of Pollock's hill, an old resident of Union township, d. Tuesday, July 18th, 1893, of heart failure, at 77. Interment at Mingo. J. Sutton Wall Mr. Wall's ancestry dates from an early period in the history of America; he being a lineal descendant of Walter Wall, who emigrated from England to St. Christopher's Island (one of the British West Indies) in 1635. (Vide N. E. Geneological and Antiquarian Register for 1860, p. 355). From thence he removed to Gravesend, LI, in 1640; and subsequently became an influential member of the so called English Colony, which the celebrated Lady Moody and her followers joined at that place in 1643. She having left Salem, Massachusetts, to escape the religious persecutions of the rulers at that place. Walter Wall owned considerable quantities of land in and about Gravesend, (Vide Thompson's History of LI, Vol. II, p. 177 &c.) but owing to the unsettled condition of governmental affairs in that region, he, together with a number of intimate friends and their families, removed to E. Jersey (now NJ) in 1657, where they purchased lands from the Indians, and made a more permanent settlement. He purchased a large tract of land in the neighborhood of Middletown, where he resided during the remaining portion of his life. This is where his grandson, General Garret D. Wall, was born, who subsequently took a prominent part in the public affairs of NJ, and was one of its representatives in the US Senate for a number of years. (Vide Whitehead's History of Eminent Jerseymen.) The family remained together in this region during the succeeding hundred years, and mainly throughout the Colonial troubles that led to, and included the separation from the mother country. The Wall family were zealous supporters of the Revolutionary cause, giving their services and lives freely in the behalf of the new country, as many of them more recently have done. James Wall (great grandfather of the subject of this sketch), together with his brother Walter, in 1766, emigrated from "Jersey" to the "Forks of Yough", as they then called it, afterwards known as the "Jersey Settlement", now comprised within the portion of the Co. of Allegheny lying between the Youghiogheny and Monongahela rivers, in PA, where they settled and subsequently purchased large tracts of land from the state. James Wall took a leading part in the public affairs of the new settlement during his life. (Vide, Crumrine's History of Washington Co. and other local histories of the region). Garrett Wall (son of James and grandfather of J. Sutton Wall) m. a daughter of Col. Richard Sparks, of the US Army. He served in the War of 1812, 13, as quartermaster of Col. Ferree's reg. of volunteer infantry in the campaign of the NW, under Gen. William Henry Harrison. Col. Richard Sparks served as Capt. in Clark's battalion under Maj. Gen. St. Clair, in 1791, and in 1792 was appointed Capt. 3rd US Infantry, and subsequently promoted to Col. of the 2nd US infantry. He was also engaged in the campaign of the NW under Gen. Harrison, and remained in the Army until the time of his death in 1815 (see Records of War Department), at Port Gibson, Mississippi. Col. Richard Sparks had 5 children, all daughters, viz: Mary, m. to Garret Wall; Catherine, m. to Richard McClure, of Clermont Co., OH; Charity, m. to John Cooper, he d. and she afterward m. John Shouse; Elizabeth, m. to ___ Braezeale; and Elenor, who m. John Printy, of Clermont, OH. Capt. Brisben Wall, late deceased, (son of Garret and father of J. Sutton Wall) a civil engineer by profession, and widely known for his ability in that profession throughout SW PA, entered the Union service, in the war of the late Rebellion, as 1st Lt. in Co. D, 79th Reg. P. V., Sep. 21, 1861, and served under Gen. James S. Negley, in the Army of TN, until disabled for further duty during the following year. Maj. William Wall, (brother of Capt. Brisben Wall) graduated from the US Military Academy in 1832, commissioned 2nd Lt. 3rd US Artillery, and subsequently Capt. and Assistant Quartermaster. He served in the campaign against the Seminole Indians in FL, and continued in the Army until the time of his death at Pueblo, Aug. 13, 1847, while engaged in the war with Mexico. J. Sutton Wall (son of Capt. Brisben Wall) was b. Mar. 21, 1849, at the old "homestead", in the "Jersey Settlement". He received early training in mathematics and the natural sciences under the tutelage of his father, and in public and private schools of that region. His rapid progress in these studies enabled him to commence the practice of civil engineering at the early age of 18, and he has continued in the active practice of the various branches of that profession to the present time. He was elected city engineer of Monongahela City in 1871, and held that office almost continously from that time to June, 1887, when he resigned to accept the office of chief draftsman in the Department of Internal Affairs of PA, under the administration of Col. Thomas J. Steward, which he still retains. He served as a mining engineer on the board of examiners for the bituminous coal regions of PA, under the administrations of Governors Hartranft and Hoyt, from 1877 to 1885, and was reappointed to the same office by Gov. Beaver. He was appointed in 1881 to make a special survey and report on the coal mines and mining operations of the Monongahela Valley and the Pittsburgh coal regions, under the auspices of the 2nd Geological Survey of PA; which work has been published as Vol. K 4, of the reports of that survey. He has been engaged on numerous other public and private surveys where considerable professional skill and knowledge were essential to a proper execution of the work.