Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wallace, John Gallaudet July 4, 1910
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Virginian Pilot July 6, 1910

                 CAPTAIN WALLACE FOUND DEAD IN HIS BARN

Venerable Citizen Of Norfolk County Died Alone At Wallaceton---He Was Life-Long 
Resident, Highly Respected

Capt. John G. Wallace, one of Norfolk county's most venerable citizens, was 
found dead at 5 o'clock yesterday morning on his farm at Wallaceton.  The body 
was discovered by a colored man in the feed room of the barn, and was in a 
sitting posture, partly stooped.  When Captain Wallace expired is not exactly 
known, but death is believed to have occurred late in the night, as he was known 
to have talked over the telephone from his house to the Lake Drummond canal 
locks late Monday night.
It was one of Captain Wallace's peculiarities to roam around his farm at all 
hours of the night.  "Dover", for that was what he called his place, had been 
his life-long residence and it was dear to his heart.  He seemed to delight in 
his midnight perambulations over the place all alone.  The seclusion and quiet 
of the farm after dark seemed to satisfy his disposition, and enticed on long 
and silent walks, and it was while he was going over the place in the silence of 
the night time that death overtook him.
                               Due To Natural Causes
When his body was discovered Dr. I. W. Costen was called and made an examination 
of it.  He attributed death to natural causes, the frailties of old age, for 
Captain Wallace was about 73 years old, having borne him down.
It is strangely coincidental that Captain Wallace's end was not unsimilar to 
that of his wife, who died suddenly two years ago.  
Captain Wallace possessed a genial disposition and was exceedingly tender and 
kind to all, both white and black.  Those traits endeared him to the people for 
miles around Wallaceton, where his many acts of kindness were known.
As a farmer he prospered.  His domain included a farm of expansive bounds, that 
stretched its limitations over a greater part of the Dismal Swamp section of 
Norfolk county.  Through his property the Dismal Swamp canal was ditched years 
ago and in the venture Captain Wallace took an active interest and became 
financially involved as well.
                               "Dover" Mecca of Tourists
His attractive home on the bank of the canal at Wallaceton was the mecca of 
tourists who journeyed through the waterway and the pleasure of Captain 
Wallace's greeting to all who stopped at his place was a refreshing memory of 
after days.
Two daughters survive him, as well as three sons,  Mrs. Lizzie Van de Carr lives 
in Stockport, on the Hudson river, in New York State and Mrs. Vera Marsteller, 
the other daughter, resides in Washington, as does William Wallace, a son.  John 
and George Wallace, the other sons, live in Norfolk.
Although his children moved away from the homestead at Wallaceton, Captain 
Wallace never would consent to leave the scenes of his life-long residence, and 
after the death of his wife, he lived alone at "Dover".
Yesterday afternoon Captain Wallace dined with a neighbor on a farm nearby, 
retired with no evidence of feebleness.  He was a member of Pickett-Buchanan 
Camp.  He was captain of Company C of the Sixty-first Virginia Regiment, and his 
war record was brilliant.  In the battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864, he was 
desperately wounded and at the time of his death the bullet that had disabled 
him for the rest of his life was still lodged in his body.
The funeral service will take place tomorrow.  Burial will be in Berkley.
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WALLACE--At his home at Wallaceton, Va., Monday night, July 4, 1910, Capt. JOHN 
G. WALLACE, in the 71st year of his age.
Funeral from St. Paul's Episcopal Church THURSDAY AFTERNOON at 5 o'clock.  
Interment Magnolia Cemetery.
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The funeral of the late Captain John G. Wallace, who died very suddenly at his 
home in Wallaceton Tuesday morning, will be conducted from St. Paul's Episcopal 
Church, Berkley, this afternoon at 5 o'clock.  Dr. Howard, rector of St. Luke's 
Episcopal Church, Norfolk, will officiate and the interment will be in the 
family burial lot in Magnolia Cemetery by the side of his wife.
On account of the popularity of the deceased the funeral will, no doubt, be one 
of the largest ever held.

Virginian Pilot July 7, 1910                      


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