Wallace Cousins, The following Bio was posted to KY-FOOTSTEPS. I don't know how many of you are subscribed to that list, so I thought I would forward it to the Wallace Family since the biography was for a SAMUEL B. WALLACE. Chuck Carter \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ >From: WRFC71A@prodigy.com (MRS BEULAH A FRANKS) >Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 06:06:43, -0500 >To: ky-footsteps@sirius.dsenter.com >Subject: KY-F: Bio: Wallace.SB-Woodford Co. >Sender: owner-ky-footsteps@sirius.dsenter.com > > >Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, >Woodford Co. > >SAMUEL B. WALLACE was born in Beaufort District, S. C., March 9, 1811, and >is the second son of Samuel McDowell Wallace, a native of Kentucky, and >Miss Annie Mauer, of Beaufort, S. C. His paternal grandfather, Judge Caleb >Wallace, was born in Virginia in 1742, and educated at Princeton College, >in New Jersey. He immigrated to Kentucky in 1785, and was appointed judge >of the appellate court in 1785, which office he filled until about 1805. He >owned a very large track of land in Woodford County, near where Midway now >stands, and died in 1814. Samuel McD. Wallace was the eldest son, and was >his father's executor. About the year 1804, his health failing, he went to >Beaufort, S. C., and there married his first wife, Miss Mauer, in that >year. There he engaged in planting, and whilst living in that district, >two sons were born, viz.: Caleb, February 22, 1806, and Samuel Baker, March >9, 1811. In 1814 Mrs. Wallace died and he returned to Kentucky. Shortly >afterward he was married to Mrs. Payne, a widow of Kentucky, who died in >1816. He was next married (in 1817) to Miss Matilda Lee, of Woodford >County, who was a sister of the first wife of Hon. John J. Crittenden. >Samuel B. Wallace, when three years of age, was brought from South Carolina >to Kentucky by his father, his mother having died. He entered Transylvania >University at the age of eighteen and remained a year, when he returned to >South Carolina. There he was married November 23, 1831, to Miss Anna M. >Taylor, of Beaufort District. In 1847 he returned to Kentucky and engaged >in farming, which he has pursued all his life. Mrs. Wallace died March >15, 1874, the mother of six children still living: Florence, Eugene, >Edward, Edward M., Robert, Andrew and Annie M. Besides these, they lost >three, viz.: William, who was born September 11, 1832, and died in South >Carolina, September 11, 1840; Morgan, born January 1, 1841, died in 1842; >and Emma, born January 7, 1856, died October 31, 1876. The eldest daughter, >Florence, is married to Rev. William H. Whitsett, of Tennessee, now >professor in the Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Edward M. >married Miss Lucy Graddy, daughter of William H. Graddy, Esq., of Woodford >County; Robert married Miss Maggie Alford of the same county. Mr. Wallace >has now been president of the board of directors of the Midway and >Versailles Turnpike Road Company for thirty years. His farm is beautifully >situated on this road, and contains 300 acres. >