1918, he was authorized a modest disability pension based on “disease of the heart
contracted from hard service." In 1920, also based on the census, he was again living
with his wife in Washington. He returned to the Old Solders’ Home in 1925 and
remained there until his death in 1936. He left $48.00 in cash, no personal or real
property. His nephew Theodore Wallace arranged for his burial in Arlington National
Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia (lot number 20697). William H. Wallace’s wife, Annie,
had preceded him in death.
I remember “Uncle Bill" on the occasion of one or two visits to the Theodore
Wallace home in Cumberland. He was characteristically Wallace: short (5’6"), fair
complexion, blue eyes.
James and Anna (Gramlich) Wallace
John and Emily’s son, James Wallace, my great-grandfather, was born in
1844, according to the 1850 census as well as his son Theodore Wallace’s record of
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’s age at death. He married Anna Gramlich at St. Patrick’s church,
Cumberland, in 1873. Their children, in the order of their birth as well as their
baptism in St. Patrick’s church were: Theodore (1873); John Joseph (1875 - died
young); James William (1876), who married Elizabeth Oliver and had children Anna,
Elloise and Willanette; another John Joseph (1878), who married Margaret Nallen
and had John and James; and Margaret Mary (1880), whose husband was Ira
Patterson, with children Virginia and Francis. John became a prosperous bakery
owner in Elkins, West Virginia. Margaret and her husband also settled in Elkins.
James William (known by his middle name) was for many years a deep sea fisherman
at Solomons, Maryland and later moved with his family to Baltimore.
The marriage of James and Anna appears to have been a struggling one. In
1880, according to the census, James was a “laborer" - a vague generic term used then
in census reports - and had worked three months during the census period. He died
in 1914 and was buried on Theodore’s lot in Saints Peter and Paul’s cemetery.
My great-grandmother, Anna Gramlich Wallace, was of German parentage:
Her father, Martin, arrived in the U.S. from Baden (Germany) in 1841, settled in
Cumberland, Maryland and was naturalized in 1847. By 1850 he was a merchant and
landlord. In 1844 he married Elisabeth Tieman (variants of both her given name and
her surname appear in other documents), who was also of German descent. In
addition to Anna, they had children John, Barbara and Margaret.
My great-grandmother died in 1920 after an epileptic seizure. She, too, was
buried in the Theodore Wallace lot.
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