S. W. WALLACE
S. W. Wallace came to Grant township from Clayton county, Iowa, where he had been engaged in farming, and located near the old Morrison place, and in 1870, removed to section 24, where they still live.
S. W. Wallace, an early settler of Cass county, was born near West Port, Essex county, New York, October 17, 1834. His parents were John Wallace, who was born May 31, 1804, at Durham, Canada, and Sally (Nichols) Wallace, born in 1802. They were married in Essex county, New York, in 1831. Both are still living, having been married fifty-three years. They had four children---Mary Ann, Charles A., Matthew W., and Sir William. Charles A. Wallace was a member of the Twelfth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing. At the latter place he was wounded and taken prisoner, but was soon after exchanged and sent to the hospital at St. Louis. Here he received an invalid's leave of absence, and went home for a few weeks, after which he rejoined his regiment and was sent to Vicksburg. After the surrender of that point, he was sent north and died at Helena, Arkansas. He left a wife and one daughter. Mathew M. Wallace was a member of the Sixteenth Iowa Infantry, and died in the service, at Columbus, Kentucky. In 1853, the subject of this sketch left Essex county, and emigrated to Clayton county, Iowa, where he took land and made a farm. He removed in 1861, to Cass county, and located upon a farm near the present town of Anita, where he remained until 1870. In that year he moved to his present residence. He has a fine farm, containing one hundred and sixty acres, valued at thirty dollars per acre. Mr. Wallace was married April 30, 1859, to Mary C. Jones, a daughter of one of the early settlers of Clayton county, Iowa. This marriage took place in Prairie du Chien, Crawford county, Wisconsin, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. W. F. Delap, in the presence of C. A. Benedict and a Miss Burbank. By the anion there were eight children, six of whom are living---Charles E.; Benjamin W., Cora A., Florence D., Effie M. and Clarence G. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace are members of the Evangelical church.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 686-687.
