Caldwell County MO Archives History .....DEATH OF E.G. WALLACE 
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THE DEATH OF E.G. WALLACE
	Narrator:  E. Green Wallace, 85, Kingston, Missouri

     Mr. Wallace was born in 1840, his parents being Abathal Wallace and 
Adaline O. Stanford of Tennessee and later Livingston and Ray Counties 
Missouri.
     Mr. Wallace was for many years a farmer in New York township owning the 
earlier Jim Filson farm.  In his youth he had an adventure which is known to 
all of his friends.  He tells it thus:  During the Civil War he tried to get 
through the lines and reach his brothers in the Confederate army.  He with 
other were captured by militia and were lined up to be shot since they were 
considered guerillas.  At the crack of the guns Mr. Wallace received no shot 
but he fell and feigned death.  To make sure of killing the men, the militia 
leader shot each of the victims through the head; but in Mr. Wallace's case 
the bullet passed through his hat, cut off a lock of hair and went on without 
harm.  Thus he twice escaped death but he was reported as dead by the 
militia.  After nightfall he crawled away to bushes and escaped.
     Soon after this occurrence he realized that the safety of his parents' 
home was well as their lives were endangered because of the son's enlistment 
in the Southern Army.  He talked it over with his father.  His father was 
about to move to Ray County (as he did afterwards) to avoid trouble.  He 
advised Green to enlist in the Union Army cause as a member of the militia for 
his own safety.
     He gave him a swift riding horse and said "I hope you know how to use 
it."  So whenever Mr. Wallace was in action as a Union militiaman, some how 
the unmanageable horse always turned and ran away, carrying young Green with 
it.
     Mr. Wallace married Mary A. Kesterson 1865.  The Wm. Kesterson family was 
also of the Southern side.  They had been "burnt out" by the Caldwell County 
Militia in the Crab Apple trouble of 1862.  Not long after the family moved to 
Nebraska to get out of further trouble with the militia.
     Interview taken 1932 a few months before the death of E.G. Wallace, 
August 1932.


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