Edgar C. Wallace (1887)

WALLACE

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 8/26/2007 at 12:20:38

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
October 13, 1887

Rev. E. C. Wallace died at the Evangelical parsonage, in Webster township, Tuesday morning at one o’clock.

Note: Edgar C. died 11 Oct 1887, burial in Welty Cemetery with a middle initial of "C."
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 18, 1935
Page 2, Columns 2,3

The Old Welty Cemetery by J. W. Roseman

Last Sunday, in company of several friends, I visited the little Welty cemetery in Webster township It lies just west of the Oak Grove church, on the north end of the Welty farm on the south bank of Middle river. Among those buried there was H.L. Wissler's father and mother, Peter Welty and wife, Uncle John Schnellbacher and wife, who lived just east of Oak Grove church in the old stone house, and a few others that I do not recall just now.

I was very much interested i one grave marked Rev. Edgar A. Wallace. Mr. Wallace was a railroad man and was converted and entered the ministry a long time ago. I think Oak Grove was his first and only work. At that time services were held at the Schnellbacher school house, but he lived in the parsonage where the Rev. W.B. Tarr now lives. Mr. Wallace had a wife and little girl and boy named Mabel and Freddie.

They visited us often, as we lived near the Roseman bridge on what is now the Mrs. Mat Hart farm. As a boy, I used to quite a hand to make little wagons. Little Freddie could not talk very plain and would say, "I want to wad" meaning he wanted to ride in the little wagon.

Mr. Wallace was a powerful preacher as I remember him. He preached the gospel without fear of criticism. When he had been on the work only a year or two, I don't remember just how long, he took sick and lived only a week or 10 days. They had Doctors Rawles and Barnes of Macksburg, who were considered the best in those days, but they could do nothing for him.

My sister was there the last night Mr. Wallace lived, and at bed time little Freddie was taken in and his father kissed him and told him to be a good boy, and be good to his mama. As a boy, this was a very touching incident to me.

The next morning when the sun arose, Mr. Wallace was in a better world than this one, and little Freddie was too little to realize the loss of his father. I was one who attend the funeral.

Mrs. Wallace and the children left soon afterwards, and I have never seen or heard of them since. If living, little Freddie is a man between 50 and 60 years old. I have often wondered what became of them without a father's love or influence as they roamed over this great wide world. This was more than 50 years ago.

Sincerely, J.W. Roseman, Earlham, Iowa

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