Brief Life History of Thomas J
When Thomas J Wallace Sr was born on 8 February 1816, in Anderson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Joseph Miller Wallace Sr, was 24 and his mother, Amelia Virginia Landrum, was 17. He married Hannah Hibbs in 1836, in Anderson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Post Oak, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 9 May 1898, in Warrensburg Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Grover Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States.
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- Thomas Wallace, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Thomas J. Sr. Wallace - birth-name: Thomas J. Wallace
- Thomas Wallace, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: variant of Wallis , especially in Scotland, where the name was introduced from the Welsh Marches by a family of tenants of the Stewarts in the 12th century.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames, e.g. Wallach .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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