BIO: William Jackson Wallace, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER XLVI.

                            FRANKFORD TOWNSHIP. 

  WILLIAM JACKSON WALLACE, farmer, P. O. Newville.  The grandfather of 
our subject settled in this township some time after his immigration 
from Ireland, on land of which the farm of William J. was a part.  He 
was married here and reared a 

479  FRANKFORD TOWNSHIP.

family.  Those who arrived at maturity were:  James, who was married to 
Susan McCrea, and lived on the homestead, where he died; Thomas, who 
went to Ohio when young, married a Miss Watt, and died there; John, who 
lived on a farm adjoining the homestead, married a Miss Mary Thompson, 
removed to Newville, and died there in 1876; Jane, who married a Mr. 
Shoemaker, went to Monmouth, Ill., where he died; Margaret, who died 
unmarried; Nancy, the wife of Thompson Mathers, of Mifflin Township, 
this county, where she died; William, the youngest son, who was born in 
1800, and lived on the farm, until a few years before his death, at 
Newville, in 1874.  He married Miss Mary Wherry, of Hopewell township, 
and had nine children:  John W., who died at home unmarried, aged about 
twenty-two; James M., who also died single; Margaret, the eldest of the 
girls, who died young; Agnes S., living in Newville; Lizzie E., killed 
by a train at Harrisburg; Anna Mary, who died after reaching maturity; 
Ida X. and Laura M., twin sisters (the former died when a young lady, 
the latter is living at Newville), and William Jackson, the youngest of 
the sons.  Our subject was born March 20, 1839, and worked on the farm 
until his marriage, when he moved to the farm, which he had previously 
purchased.  The homestead became his on his father's death.  December 
27, 1870, he married Miss Mary G., daughter of Rev. James Shields, of 
Juniata County, who was born, September 11, 1843.  Mr. and Mrs. Wallace 
had one son, James Shields, who was born September 8, 1873, died July 
11, 1886.  He had been school director for nine years, and was justice 
of the peace for the five years previous to his death.  He was a member 
of and ruling elder in the United Presbyterian Church at Newville.  He 
had the reputation, in his community, of being a conscientious man, and 
a good citizen.  His widow is a member of the United Presbyterian 
Church at Newville.