WALLACE, Mary Ann (Lake)

Date of birth:  About 1823 – Virginia
Date of death: 26 May 1897 – Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, June 11, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 48, page 6 column 6

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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SAMARIA.

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Aunt Mary Ann Wallace died at the home of her son-in-law, P. B. Hensley, Friday, May 26. She had been confined to her bed about two months. She was 74 years old. Her husband, William Wallace, died nearly forty years ago and Mrs. Wallace raised the children by her own energy and industry. She was one of the pioneer women of our township and during her long life had been a loving mother and a good citizen, having done her part in life nobly. She was buried at Bethlehem church, on Indiana Creek, by the side of her husband.

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Link to Mary Ann (Lake) Wallace’s grave

Notes: Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that William Wallace married Mary Ann Lake on 25 Mar 1841 in Morgan County.

The 1860 US Federal Census for Hensley, Johnson County, Indiana records forty-one-year-old, Kentucky-born William Wallace, his thirty-seven-year-old, Virginia-born wife, Mary A Wallace, and their Indiana-born children, fifteen-year-old John C., thirteen-year-old Barbera [sic] A., eleven-year-old Margaret E. and seven-year-old Mary H. Wallace.

Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 36 that Pretteyman [sic] B. Hensley married Barbra [sic] A. Wallace on 1 Apr 1864.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson