This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wallace Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EC.2ACE/655.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the info. My theory at this point is that your Lydia M. Wallace, b. 1845 in NY, may have been a niece of my G2 grandfather, William Wallace. William A. Wallace was born, 6 Sept 1824, in Crown Point, Essex County, N.Y. He and several elder siblings, whom I have not been able to identify. It is possible that this Lydia M. Wallace was the daughter of one of his older brothers. William A. Wallace had a younger sister, also named Lydia Mary Wallace. She was presumably given the Mary middle name to honor their mother Mary, who had married John Wallace. William had two daughters by his first wife, Rhoda. The first named Mary, was b. 1848; the second was named Lydia and was b. 1849, according to the 1850 Federal census of Crown Point, NY. It is not likely that this Lydia was the same as your Lydia [b. 1845 in NY]. I must point out here, however, that I have no info on this first family of William Wallace. William and his sister Lydia had another sister Fannie E. Wallace who setttled in Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin and married George Murison there on 26 November 1868. Fannie died in Portage on 16 July 1917. When sister Lydia traveled from Tonkawa, Oklahoma to attend her sister's funeral, a companion newpaper account, next to Fannie's obituary, stated that Lydia [Mrs. George W. Case] continued on to visit in Sparta. My theory here, is that perhaps one of William and Lydia's older brothers, settled in the Sparta, Wisconsin area, and that this Lydia M. Wallace was one of his daughters. Since you have no further info on this Lydia M. Wallace, perhaps you could share some info about the people she was living with in 1860 in Monroe County.