When Wallace Clem was born on 18 July 1876, in Reger, Sullivan, Missouri, United States, his father, John Minchel Clem, was 27 and his mother, Lucinda A. Sherwood, was 24. He lived in Duncan Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 25 August 1891, in Reger, Sullivan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 15, and was buried in Henry Cemetery, Bowman Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States.