John G. Wallace

No other information about J. G. Wallace is given in the cemetery records, but also buried here is Forney Smyth Wallace, b. 1880 and d. 1968, a son of John Green Wallace. John Green Wallace (b. June 21, [1837?] 1839, d. February 23, 1914), a Confederate veteran, was the son of Sarah D. Smyth and Green Berry Wallace, and the younger cousin of Campbell Wallace, who also served in Company C, 18th Texas Infantry.

John Green Wallace was born in Alabama and came to Cherokee County, Texas, with his parents and siblings in the early 1840s, where they helped establish Pine Town on the stage line between Rusk and Palestine. His uncle George Washington Smyth, a brother of Sarah Smyth Wallace, had come to Texas in 1830, was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and was Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office.

John Wallace, 23 years old, was farming and living in Cherokee County in the household of his widowed mother Sarah, and three siblings, in 1860. His descendants recall that John G. hauled freight and "was also a carpenter and made his tools out of white oak." John Green Wallace, Cherokee County, and later his wife Martha, widow, applied for a Confederate pension.

References:

Sardis Cemetery, Cherokee County, Texas, http://www.tx-wooddell.net/cherokee/mid/sardis_cemt.htm, accessed 02-10-2008

Leonard A. Berry, grandson of Forney Smyth and Mattie Harris Wallace, "Forney Smyth Wallace Family," in Cherokee County History, Cherokee County Historical Commission, 1986, p. 580

Jerry H. Taylor and Leonard A. Berry, "Green Berry Wallace Family," in Cherokee County History, Cherokee County Historical Commission, 1986, pp. 580-581

1850 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Texas 1860 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Texas 1870 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Texas Cherokee County, Texas--Military: Confederate Pension Applications on file at the Texas State Library and Archives at Austin, Travis County, Texas, http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/cherokee/military/civilwar/cherokcsa.txt, accessed 02-10-2008

Submitted by Sheron Smith-Savage

The General Store
Texans in the Civil War