Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wallace, John Gallaudet II March 30, 1645
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The Norfolk Virginian Pilot March 31, 1945
John G. Wallace, 2d, 67, treasurer of Norfolk County since 1936, died yesterday 
at 5:30 o'clock after a protracted illness at his home at Wallaceton, situated 
on the Dismal Swamp and the George Washington Highway in the southern part of 
the county.
Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 3 p.m. at the grave in Magnolia 
Cemetery, Berkley, by the Rev. David George, rector of St. Bride's Episcopal 
Church.
Mr. Wallace was actively engaged in agriculture for many years and was an 
admitted expert on the culture of the Golden Bantam sugar corn, which was 
something of a hobby. His family had resided in the heart of the Dismal Swamp 
for many years, his father, the late Capt. John G. Wallace, having been an 
official of the Lake Drummond Canal and Water Company. His mother was the late 
Mrs. Veronica McGehee Wallace.
Before being appointed country(sic) treasurer in 1936 to succeed the late Early 
W. Whitehead, Mr. Wallace was sales manager for the Southern Produce Company, 
the oldest extant farmers co-operative in the country. At the time of his death 
Mr. Wallace was on the second year of his elective term of four years. He 
served nearly three years of Mr. Whitehead's term.
The Norfolk County treasurer was a member of Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal 
Church, Norfolk. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Maria Mildred Wilson Wallace, 
and three children, John G. Wallace, III, of Norfolk County, George T. Wallace 
II, of Harrisonburg, and Miss Mildred Wilson Wallace, of Norfolk County. A 
brother, William M. Wallace, of Washington, also survives. Another brother, 
George T. Wallace, and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Van de Carr and Mrs. 
Veronica Wallace Marsteller, a former postmistress at Virginia Beach and wife 
of Dr. Ambler A. Marsteller, of Norfolk, had previously died.
With the advent of the combustion engine years ago, Mr. Wallace and his 
brother, George T. Wallace, engaged in marketing the invention and promoted the 
use of the engine in racing craft which engaged in many contests in the harbor. 
They maintained a sales agency in Norfolk.
He was one of the first residents of Norfolk County to own an automobile when 
that means of locomotion first came on the market.
Interested in amateur photography, Mr. Wallace engaged extensively in it, 
portraying for the most part, scenes in Dismal Swamp, in which his ancestral 
home is located. His collection of pictures was expansive. He derived a great 
deal of pleasure in exploiting the Dismal Swamp area, and by means of 
photography, gave that territory extensive publicity in some of the leading 
magazines.

The Norfolk Virginian Pilot March 31, 1945

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John G. Wallace II--Funeral services for Mr. Wallace, who died at his home at 
Wallaceton, Norfolk County, Friday morning, were conducted at the family lot in 
Magnolia Cemetery yesterday at 3 p.m. The Rev. David C. George, rector of St. 
Bride's Episcopal Church, officiated.
Intermingled with the large attendance of friends and relatives were many 
leading citizens from all parts of the county. Pallbearers were Dr. A.A. 
Marstella, A.W. Willett, Herbert Walke, Wallace Walke, Albert Edwards, Nicholas 
Wilson, James N. Garrett and W.S. Rodgers, Jr.
The body was taken direct to the cemetery from the Williams Funeral Home.

The Norfolk Virginian Pilot Tuesday April 3, 1945


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WALLACE, JOHN G I2160 Block 1, Lot 6, Space 2ND FROM N SIDE CTR TIER 0 
03/30/1945

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