| Name |
David Campbell Wallace |
- David Campbell Wallace was in Blount County, Tennessee, by 1798. The Wallace family moved to McDonough County, Illinois, around 1815. With his family and in-laws, David Wallace came up the Illinois River on the maiden voyage of the steamship "Red Rover." By 1821, the family was living in Rushville Township, Schuyler County, Illinois. David and his son Alfred erected the first grist mill in Schuyler County, and in 1829 they added an "up and down" saw for lumber. In Schuyler County, they lived in the northeast quarter of Section 21 of Rushville Township. They moved to Lee County, Iowa, around 1830, where Sarah died, then to Ray County, Missouri, and finally returned to McDonough County, Illinois. [Source: Schuyler County Jail Museum. Schuyler County Illinois History (Dallas: Taylor Publishing Co, 1985), 592]
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| Birth |
ca 1780 |
Virginia, USA  |
- (1) Silas Emmett Lucas. 35,000 Tennessee Marriage Records and Bonds, 1783-1870 (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1981), 352.
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| Gender |
Male |
| Biography |
Ray Co, Missouri, USA |
- (1) "A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region", Godspeed & Company, Chicago, IL, 1894. (3) War of 1812 Pension Application file of David Campbell Wallace. (4) J. D. Bailey. "Abraham Sallee and his Descendants," 1992.
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Biography of David Campbell Wallace
David Campbell Wallace, son of John & Margaret (Thompson) Wallace, was born circa 1780 in Blount Co, Tennessee, and died 16 Dec 1872 in McDonough County, Illinois. He married Sarah Justus, daughter of Moses & Mariah (Gilkey) Justus, on 23 Apr 1798 in Blount County, Tennessee. The Wallace family moved to McDonough County, Illinois, around 1815. With his family and in-laws, David Wallace came up the Illinois River on the maiden voyage of the steamship "Red Rover." By 1821, the family was living in Rushville Township, Schuyler County, Illinois. About 1830 the family settled near Franklin in Lee County, Iowa. After Sarah's death (burial at Franklin, MO), the widower and children settled near Crab Orchard (now Elkhorn) in Ray County, Missouri. David later moved back to McDonough County, Illinois, where he died. David Oliver Wallace, a child of David Campbell Wallace and Sarah Justus was born on 17 Jul 1815 in McDonough County, Illinois; died in 1900 near Hammond, Ozark County, Missouri. He married Ellender "Ellen" Turner, the daughter of John Turner and Jane West, on 14 Dec 1837 in Ray County, Missouri. Ellender was born 22 Sep 1819 in Ray County, Missouri, and died 28 Feb 1893 near Mirable, Caldwell County, Missouri. David is buried at the Wallace Family Cemetery in Hammond, Ozark County, Missouri. Ellen is buried at Mirable Cemetery in Caldwell County, Missouri. Ellen was blind for the last five years of her life. They lived with their son, Joseph Meyers Wallace, and his wife, Laura, on their farm south of Cameron, Clinton County, Missouri, which later became part of Wallace State Park. Children of David Oliver Wallace and Ellender Turner are (1) Sarah Jane Wallace was born on 20 Dec 1838. She married Noah Franklin McGuire on 29 Nov 1855 in Ray County, Missouri. They resided between Cameron and Polo, Clinton County, Missouri. They were buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Clinton Co, Missouri. They had 11 children. (2) James Cosby Wallace was born on 26 Aug 1840 near Crab Orchard (now Elkhorn), Ray County, Missouri; died 24 Feb 1924 near Hammond, Ozark County, Missouri. He was buried in Wallace Family Cemetery. 3. Martha Wallace born 1 April 1844 near Crab Orchard (near Elkhorn), Ray County, MO. 4. John Thomas Wallace, born 21 June 1846 near Crab Orchard (Elkhorn), Ray County, MO. 5. Ephriam Hill Wallace, born 27 July 1848 near Crab Orchard (Elkhorn), Ray County, MO. 6. Ellen Wallace, born on 2 May 1855 near Crab Orchard (Elkhorn), Ray County, MO. 7. Joseph Mayers Wallace, was born 22 November 1858 in Ray County, MO; He died ___near Nyssa, OR. He married Laura ___. |
| Census |
1790 |
Anson Co, North Carolina, USA |
| p 189. |
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1790 Census for Anson County, North Carolina, Sheet 189
--John Wallis/Wallace--Free white males under 16: 1, Free white males 16-over: 1, Free white females: 2, No. Household members: 4. |
| Residence |
1798 |
Blount County, Tennessee, USA |
| Census |
1800 |
Blount Co, Tennessee, USA |
| None found. |
| Tax Records |
1801 |
Blount Co, Tennessee, USA |
| Taxed in Captain Cowan's Company, David Wallace paid taxes on 100 acres of land and 1 pole. |
- Inez E. Burns. History of Blount County, Tennessee: from war train to landing strip, 1795-1955 (Maryville, TN: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1957), p 297.
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| Census |
1810 |
Blount Co, Tennessee, USA |
| None found. |
| Military |
26 Jul 1814 |
War of 1812 |
Private, Holdens Company, 17 Regt of Infantry, US Army.
By Order of Brig. Duncan McArthur, Commanding Eight Military District. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. KNOW YE, that David Wallace, a private in Capt. Holden's Company, 17th Regiment of Infantry who was enlisted [on] the 26th day of July eighteen hundred and fourteen to serve during the war, is hereby Honorably discharged from the Army of the United States, having faithfully served out the full period of his enlistment. Said David Wallace was born in [blank] in the State of Connecticut [and] is about Twenty-six years of age, five feet eight inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair, and by occupation, when enlisted, a Wheelwright. Given at Detroit, Michigan Territory this thirteenth day of June 1815. [Signed] Adj & Insp Gen. Wm. Henry __ Phugg, Major. Copied by Gemime G. Bender at 2 R.R. Camp Detroit.
I CERTIFY ON HONOR, that David Wallace, a private of Capt C. H. Holden Company, Seventeenth Regiment of Infantry who was enlisted [on] the twenty-sixth day of July eighteen hundred fourteen to serve during the war, is entitled to an Honorable discharge from the Army of the United States having faithfully served out the full period of his enlistment. He is therefore entitled to the land bounty allowed by law. Said David Wallace was born in the State of Connecticut [and] is about Twenty-six years of age, five feet eight inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair, and by occupation, when enlisted, a Wheelwright. Given at Detroit, Michigan Territory this thirteenth day of June 1815. [Signed] John Butler Linton, 24th US Army Command Department. |
| Pension |
1815 |
War of 1812 |
NARA Research ticket:
Veteran: David Campbell Wallace; Branch of Service: Army; Start of Service: 1814; End of Service: 1815; Unit of Service: 17 US Infantry, Capt. Caleb Holder; Rank: enlisted; Kind of Service: regular; Date of Birth: 1780; Place of Birth: Virginia; Name of Widow: Sarah Justus; Lived after service: Illinois, Missouri; Date of Death: 1872; Place of Death: McDonough Co, Illinois; Comments: Discharged at Detroit 30 Jun 1815. Warrant # 11273. No pension file located. |
| Residence |
1815 |
McDonough County, Illinois, USA |
| The David Campbell Wallace family moved with his family and in-laws up the Illinois River on the maiden voyage of the steamship Red Rover. |
| Land Grant/Warrant |
3 Apr 1818 |
Schuyler Co, Illinois, USA |
| Bounty Land was issued to non-commissioned officers and soldiers who served for at least 5 years. The first act issuing land was passed on the 24th of December 1811. All warrantees received 160 acres. A second series of warrants related to soldiers who enlisted after December 1814. The second series of warrants was for 320 acres of land. The land was located in one of three districts in Arkansas, Illinois, or Missouri. Prior to 1842 the warrants could not be used outside these three districts and could not be sold or assigned until after 1852. The warrants could be passed on to heirs through inheritance. Some of the warrants list the name of the heirs and their relationship to the deceased veteran. The last warrant was issued in 1858. The Congressional Acts that authorized giving veterans of the War of 1812 to apply for bounty land are: Act of 1811, Act of 1812, Act of 1814. The following are the requirements listed from 1812-1815, to be eligible to obtain bounty land for military service: Enlisted men serving for five years or the duration of the war but did not include officers. It was for 160 acres, or 320 for those enlisting in December 1814. These warrants could not be sold or assigned to others; although power of attorney helped in getting around this limitation. Warrants had to be used in designated districts in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. Soldiers could only select districts but could not pick the plot. |
- Illinois. Schuyler County. Land Patent. Document No: 11273, BLM Serial No: IL No S/N. David Wallace, 160 acres at Section 5 SW 1/4, Township 2N, Range 1W; Meridian 4th PM - 1815 Illinois, Authority: May 6, 1812: ScripWarrant Act of 1812, 2 Stat 728. Accession No: IL5200_/402. Accessioned General Land Office Records at the US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management on 9 Nov 2022.
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Land Patent for David Wallace, Schuyler County, Illinois
James Monroe, President of the United States of America, To all to Whom These Presents shall come, Greeting: Know Ye, That, in pursuance of the Acts of Congress appropriating and granting Land to the late Army of the United States, passed on and since the sixth day of May 1812, David Wallace having deposited in the General Land Office a Warrant in his favor, numbered 11273 there is granted unto the said David Wallace late a private in Holdens Company, 17 Regt of Infantry a certain Tract of Land, containing one hundred & sixty acres being the South West quarter of Section five [5] __ of Township two [2] North in Range one [1] West __ in the Tract appropriated (by the Acts aforesaid) for Military Bounties, in the Territory of Illinois ___ TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said quarter section of Land; with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said David Wallace and to his heirs and assigns forever. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have caused these Letters to be made/patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed. Given under my Hand, at the City of Washington, this third day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and of the Independence of the United States of America the forty-second ___ By the President J_M_ J. Miggs, Commissioner of the General Land Office. |
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War of 1812 Military Bounty Land Warrant
No. 11273 David Wallace |
| Census |
1820 |
Schuyler Co, Illinois, USA |
| None found. |
| Residence |
1821 |
Schuyler Co, Illinois, USA |
| Lived in northeast quarter of Section 21 of Rushville Township. David and his son Alfred erected the first grist mill in Schuyler County. |
| Immigration |
1825 |
Schuyler Co, Illinois, USA |
| In 1825, James Vance arrived from the South with a family, and built his cabin in section twenty-one, Rushville, but was never a permanent resident, and properly belonged, while in this county, to that class of persons known as squatters. He left the county at an early day and became a pioneer of McDonough county. David Wallace also came from the south, and made improvements on the same section with Vance, but subsequently sold his interest and left the county. . . His house was that of all the pioneers, a rude log cabin. To this improvement, he added a fence around his growing crops. The pioneer perhaps suffers less from almost every other cause than from insufficient mills to grind the meager harvest won from the primitive soil...David Wallace, a native of Tennessee, in 1825 settled on the northeast quarter of section 21, of Rushville township, where he lived for five years; he then went to McDonough county. After his roving disposition had led him to many changes of residence he died in Schuyler county. Of his eight children, Alfred, Moses, James, Oliver, Thomas, John and three daughters all are now living except Moses; Alfred is now living at an advanced age in Browning; he was born in Tennessee in the year 1805. He came up the river on board the " Red Rover," in June 1828, on one of the first trips ever made up Illinois by steamer; he has ever been an active man and assisted in building one of the first water-mills constructed in the county in 1828. |
- Combined history of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois: with descriptive of their scenery, and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers Philadelphia: W. R. Brink & Co., 1882), 60-61, 309]
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| Circuit Court |
12 Oct 1826 |
Rushville, Schuyler, Illinois, USA |
| The next circuit court convened at Rushville, October 12th, 1826. Five indictments were returned by the grand jury at this term, two for assault and battery, two for assault, and one for malconduct. David Wallace, on the oath of James Vance that he verily believed his property was in danger of sustaining injury, was bound to keep the peace; and James Vance, on a similar oath made by David Wallace, gave bond "to be of good behaviour and keep the peace toward all the good people of the state of Illinois, and more especially toward the said David Wallace.'' |
- Combined history of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois: with descriptive of their scenery, and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers Philadelphia: W. R. Brink & Co., 1882), 103.
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| Circuit Court |
Oct 1827 |
Rushville, Schuyler, Illinois, USA |
| David Wallace was indicted for giving a challenge to fight a duel |
- Combined history of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois: with descriptive of their scenery, and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers Philadelphia: W. R. Brink & Co., 1882), 103.
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| Occupation |
1829 |
Schuyler Co, Illinois, USA |
| The pioneer perhaps suffers less from almost every other cause than from insufficient mills to grind the meager harvest won from the primitive soil. The subject of mills, therefore, engaged the early attention of the first settler. George Skiles, David Wallace, and Alfred C. Wallace set to work vigorously and erected the first mill in the year 1829, on Sugar creek, in section 20, township 1 north, range 1 east. It was a rude affair constructed of logs, and the ruins of the old dam are still pointed out by some of the older citizens on section twenty, of T. 1 N., E. 1 east. It had two run of burrs, one for wheat and one for corn. In 1831 they added an up-and-down saw, and did quite a lumber business. About the same time Benjamin Chadsey and a man named Jordan, built the same kind of a mill a little below on the stream. In the spring of 1829, Thomas Justus, brother-in-law of George Skiles, built a combined saw and grist mill above the Skiles mill. And above the Justus' mill, a little later, a mill was started by William McKee. |
- Combined History of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois. . ., 1882, pp 64, 309-310.
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| Census |
1830 |
Schuyler Co, Illinois, USA |
| Miscellaneous twp, p 86. |
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1830 Census for Schuyler County, Illinois, Miscellaneous Township, Sheet 86
--David Wallace--free white males 10-14: 2; free male males 15-19: 2; free white males 20-29: 2; free white males 50-59: 1; free white females 15-19: 1; free white females 40-49: 1, Free white persons under 20: 5, Free white persons 20-49: 4, Total all persons: 9. |
| Misc |
7 Jun 1830 |
Schuyler Co, Illinois, USA |
| MILL SEATS. In the early county records appear the proceedings in several cases on writs of ad quod damnum in which the county commissioners ordered the establishment of mill seats and authorized the building of mill dams. On the 7th of June, 1830, the commissioners, after receiving the report of a jury of inquest summoned to examine a proposed mill seat on Sugar creek, in section six, township two north, range one east, and being satisfied that no injury would be sustained by individuals, the health of the neighborhood not affected, and that the mill would be of public utility order, " that the said mill seat be established and the said Benjamin V. Teel have leave to build his dam twelve feet high above the surface of low water." David Wallace, on the same day, was authorized to build a dam across Sugar creek, in the southwest quarter of section twenty, township two north, range one east, "ten feet high above the low water mark." At the same session of the court a mill seat was established on Crooked creek in the southwest quarter of section seventeen, township two north, range one east, and authority given to Thomas Justice to build a dam nine feet high above low water mark. |
- Combined history of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois: with descriptive of their scenery, and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers Philadelphia: W. R. Brink & Co., 1882), 101.
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| Property, Real |
10 Jun 1835 |
McDonough Co, Illinois, USA |
| Section 6, Township 5N, R4 S1/2NW. 4th PM, 1815 Illinois Meridan, IL Aliquot Part S2NW. |
- Gregory A. Boyd. Family Maps of McDonough County, Illinois: with Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and more 1st Ed. (Norman, OK: Arphax Publishing Co, 2008), 148, 150.
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| Census |
1840 |
| Possibly living in Iowa where there was no census taken. |
| Census |
1850 |
Ray Co, Missouri, USA |
| District No. 25, p 379A, dwelling/family 1320/1320, b. Virginia; living with son David Oliver Wallace; enumerated by 15 Nov 1850 by Geo I. Wasson. |
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1850 Census for Ray County, Missouri, District 75, Sheet
1319/1319 Turner, Littleton...34...head...farmer
______, Maria.......32...wife
______, John........14...son
______, William.....13...son
______, James J.....10...son
______, Jane........ 8...daughter
______, Joshua...... 6...son
______, Ellen....... 3...daughter
1320/1320 Wallace, David O...34...head...farmer
_______, Ellen...............32...wife
_______, Sarah...............12...daughter
_______, Cosby...............10...son
_______, Martha.............. 8...daughter
_______, John................ 6...son
_______, Ephraim............. 2...son
_______, David...............70...father |
| Military |
War of 1812 |
| Death |
Nov 1872 |
McDonough Co, Illinois, USA |
- Silas Emmett Lucas. 35,000 Tennessee Marriage Records and Bonds, 1783-1870 (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1981), 352.
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| Person ID |
I1179 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
19 Oct 2023 |
1780 - 1872 (92 years)
