Wallace Cemetery History

WALLACE CEMETERY is located in the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 33 of Jefferson Township. It is one-eighth mile west and one-eighth south of Wick, Iowa. Take Highway 92 west out of Indianola, Iowa, for nine miles, turn south on the paved road and go one-half miles south then west three-fourths mile to Wick. The cemetery is one-eighth mile to the north.

The first death in Jefferson Township was that of James Rayn who drowned on July 6, 1846. The first birth was Henry Johnson, son of Lewis and Nancy Johnson. He was born on May, 1847. On August 15, 1847, Jane Berger, daughter of Ulysses and Margaret C. Berger was born.

A class of Methodists Episcopals started meeting in the Wick neighborhood in 1848. Original members were John Wallace, Julia Ann Wallace, Elizabeth Berger, Margaret Berger and Darius Berger. The Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church was erected in 1871 at the cost of $1800. It was rebuilt in 1896 and cost $1,000.

John Sylvester Wallace, born in Fayette County, Indiana in 1822, married Julia A. Bilby on October 19, 1844. Julia was born in Hamilton County, Ohio on September 10, 1825. The Wallaces left Indiana in 1848 and came to Warren County, Iowa.

John and Julia Wallace conveyed one-half acre to the Wallace Cemetery Trustees for the burying ground on August 27, 1870. The cemetery now includes four and one-half acres and is under the control of the Wallace Cemetery Association.

Other early families of the Wick area included the Todds, Walkers, Carletons, Bergers and the James Smith family. Wick, Iowa was laid out in 1883.

Cemetery and Death Records of Warren County, Iowa, Warren County Genealogical Society, Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, Missouri: 1980.

Introduction to Wallace Cemetery, Wick, Warren, Iowa by Burton L. Nagel, 2001

View records submitted to the Iowa Gravestone Photo Project for Wallace Cemetery.