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WikiTree Challenge 2024 Challenge 1

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WikiTree Challenge 1

An Introduction to the WikiTree Challenge
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Score Sheet

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Starting Profiles

  1. John Denver
  2. Manuel Gonzáles Vallejo
  3. Edwin Gaines Fullinwider
  4. Thomas Wakefield Blackburn
  5. Billy the Kid
  6. Pat Garrett
  7. Lew Wallace
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Needs Work

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  1. José de Jesus Sanchez (1840-bef.1916), descendant of Manuel Vallejo Gonzáles, needs profiles for 2 wives and 10 children. This is after they became a part of the U.S. so no Spanish needed! The children all have baptism records on FamilySearch.

Photographs

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FamilySearch Image Look-ups

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If there's a book that is only available on the shelves in Salt Lake City, Karen Lowe can probably drive over to access it. You can find her on Discord or by WikiTree message.

  • Garrett: James Shaw I need an Alabama Death Certificate, please:

Digital Folder Number 004198786 Microfilm Number 1908881 Image Number 00544 Indexing Batch I06525-0 Collection Information Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974 Learn more about this collection through the FamilySearch Wiki. Cite This Record "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JKSV-GJY : 30 November 2020), James F. Shaw, 1953. Thanks in advance! Tull-5 12:41, 15 January 2024 (UTC) done

  • Garrett: James Heard Need image of Louisiana DC. Thanks in Advance!! Digital Folder Number

004216042 Microfilm Number 2203837 Image Number 29 Indexing Batch B07159-7 Collection Information Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960 Learn more about this collection through the FamilySearch Wiki. Cite This Record "Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3M3-KVN : Sat Oct 14 03:46:25 UTC 2023), Entry for James Howard Heard and Jim H Heard, 17 Oct 1936. Tull-5 20:18, 16 January 2024 (UTC) done

Locations

List any countries you find here

  1. Australia
  2. Bahamas
  3. Belgium
  4. British Guyana
  5. Canada
  6. Cuba
  7. Mexico
  8. France
  9. Germany
  10. Guatemala
  11. Italy
  12. Jamaica
  13. Panama
  14. Panama Canal
  15. Peru
  16. Philippines
  17. Poland
  18. Portugal
  19. Puerto Rico
  20. Russia
  21. Spain
  22. Tahiti
  23. Tonga
  24. Trinidad
  25. Turkey
  26. England
  27. Ireland
  28. Scotland
  29. Switzerland
  30. Wales
  31. United States:
    1. Alabama
    2. Alaska
    3. Arizona
    4. Arkansas
    5. California
    6. Colorado
    7. Connecticut
    8. Delaware
    9. Florida
    10. Georgia
    11. Hawaii
    12. Idaho
    13. Illinois
    14. Indiana
    15. Iowa
    16. Kansas
    17. Kentucky
    18. Louisiana
    19. Maine
    20. Maryland
    21. Massachusetts
    22. Michigan
    23. Minnesota
    24. Mississippi
    25. Missouri
    26. Montana
    27. Nebraska
    28. Nevada
    29. New Hampshire
    30. New Jersey
    31. New Mexico
    32. New York
    33. North Carolina
    34. North Dakota
    35. Ohio
    36. Oklahoma
    37. Oregon
    38. Pennsylvania
    39. Rhode Island
    40. South Carolina
    41. South Dakota
    42. Tennessee
    43. Texas
    44. Utah
    45. Vermont
    46. Virginia
    47. Washington
    48. Washington, DC
    49. West Virginia
    50. Wisconsin
    51. Wyoming
    52. US Virgin Island of St. Thomas

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John Denver

Interesting Finds

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  • John's paternal great-grands and first-greats. Prussia experts should look in West Prussia for ancestor links. Henry Deutschendorf's ancestors were from West Prussia and immigrated to Ekaterinoslav, Russia and later moved to North Caucasus. This family is considered Black Sea Germans (Germans from Russia called by Catherine the Great who settled around Black Sea area now by Ukraine) and his family lived in several Mennonite colonies. Printz-168 18:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
  • John's paternal great-grandparents, Georg Deutschendorf and Elizabeth Catt's nine other children (beside John's grandfather). Georg left West Prussia with his parents and family and settled in South Russia first into the Mennonite colony of Chortitza, Ekaterinoslav. After marrying Elizabeth Catt, they had children documented in several villages including: Chortitza, Elisabethstal, Josefstal, Steinau, and Friedensfeld--all Mennonite colonies. The family then resettled in the North Caucasus in Wohldemfurst. Four daughters were still in Russia and three sons were living in Germany at the 1953 time period of his daughter Anna's death (she was the only one confirmed to have immigrated to Canada). Only one son came to America, John Henry, who traveled with Georg's sister Justina--he was the grandfather to John Denver. Printz-168 00:25, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
  • John's third great grandfather John Berry lived to be over 100 years old! An article about his 101st birthday was published in the St. Louis, Missouri Sun. It was estimated he had over 250 descendants living in Dent County, Missouri where he lived. Doherty-2064 15:36, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Military Profiles

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  • Ashley N. Alvis was a Private in Company B, 43rd Regiment, Alabama Infantry. He was the maternal grandfather of John Denver’s aunt’s 2nd husband Cecil E. Askins. Bianchi-201 19:25, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

19TH CENTURY MILITARY

WORLD WAR I

  • John Denver; Lorin Calvin Davis Private Engineers, Company C, 34th Infantry went to France and was sent home on a hospital ship secondary to Bilateral Congenital Amblyopia, Tull-5 16:50, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

WORLD WAR II

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KOREAN
VIETNAM

Manuel Gonzáles Vallejo

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  • Lugardo Vallejo (abt.1704-1769) and María Rosalia Romero de Pedraza (abt.1712-abt.1750) married in 1730, creating quite the scandal. Rosalia was the daughter of Lugardo's older half-sister, Angela Teresa Vallejos (abt.1685-abt.1750). They married on 31 May 1730 and their oldest child was baptized on 15 Jun 1730. The church record states that Lugardo was "hijo de padres no conocidos" (was the son of unknown parents.) Korte-201 14:38, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
  • In 1676, Manuel González Vallejo left his home in Acatzingo, Puebla, to move to Mexico City. He likely relocated there to learn a trade, as in later years he was identified as a maestro de herrador, a master farrier, who made iron shoes for horses and could train others in the trade. In 1693, he signed up, along with is family, to join the group of families from Mexico City that had volunteered to help resettle New Mexico. On the muster role of July 1693, his trade was recorded as herrador (farrier).Perez-5513 12:42, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Manuel Miguel Lucero de Godoy (bef.1710-1766), grandson of Manuel González Vallejo, served as alcalde mayor (head of the cabildo, the town council) of Albuquerque from the mid-1760s until his death on January 25, 1766.Perez-5513 16:11, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Military Profiles

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Edwin Gaines Fullinwider

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  • James E Caldwell James E Caldwell (1902-) attended Northwestern University and achieved prominence during his college years in Chicago as a leader of a Dixieland jazz band called Jimmy Caldwell's Jazz Jesters. His band at various times featured such jazz greats as Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbeck and Eddie Condon. He was active in the Willamette Valley Jazz Society and the Oregon City Jazz Society. Gahn-22 18:41, 12 January 2024 (UTC). [Quoted straight off Find-a-Grave]
  • Robert Hamilton Lang (1836-1913) was the governor of the Imperial Ottoman Bank based in Constantinople. When he retired in October 1902, he was received by the Sultan who conferred upon him the Grand Cordon of the Order of Medjidie set in brilliants. Lang was a businessman but also a diplomat and a collector of antiquities. The major part of his Cypriot antiquities collection was purchased by the British Museum, with other parts going to the Louvre in Paris and to museums in Berlin. Albasini-30 12:19, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Byron Demont Rogers (1883-), a cousin of Edwin Gaines Fullinwider's father, met his future wife Mary Alice Lang in Istanbul (at that time still named Constantinople). He was stationed there serving on US Navy ship Scorpion and she was the Constantinople born daughter of Robert Hamilton Lang , a Scottish financier and diplomat appointed as the Governor of the Imperial Ottoman Bank. Albasini-30 13:05, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Fullinwider-16 Rolla Augustus Fullinwider sailed to the Isthmus of Panama April 11, 1908 to join the ranks of the more than 40,000 workers who were employed to build the Panama Canal. He reported to duty on April 16, 1908 as a Conductor, making $170.00 per month. Sometimes he made $220.50 per month when promoted to Foreman Conductor. About 5609 workers were killed during the construction of the Panama Canal. It opened in 1914 after 10 years of construction. Bagby-747 14:45, 14 January 2024 (UTC)Bagby-747
  • William Julius Citron (1883-) was an inventor. He was granted several patents for rather strange devices like a tonsorial apparatus to apply lather to the face of a person and also to provide means whereby the face may be dried and powdered with either warm air, steam or heated water delivered into contact with the face of a person, or a carriage for seating spectators, mounted on revolving supports that give an impression of rolling vehicles or traveling motion at rapid speed; in moving panoramic scenes imprinted or painted on webs moving oppositely to the supposed course of the carriage or even the Trailograf designed to take the place of slides on the screen or also a method of and apparatus for recording and exhibiting stock quotations, election returns, and other similar transitory information, combining a standard form of typewriter and a prop lantern . He also worked as a local manager for Fox Films (later to become 20th Century Fox). Albasini-30 16:51, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Military Profiles

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    • https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tally-396 : Served in Quantrill's Partisan Rangers, CSA under Captain Quantrill. Lost at War. Specifically: KIA near Independence, MO and likely buried nearby. Roster lists him as killed by Missouri State Militia on February 11th, 1863 near Independence, Missouri. (Popp-547)
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  • Frederick Lansing served in the Civil War in the 8th New York Cavalry, acting adjutant to that regiment .Bagby-747 13:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Bagby-747Bagby-747 13:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
  • John L Hesser (1834-1919) was a Civil War soldier in Co. A of the 73rd Illinois Infantry. He was captured at the Battle of Chicamauga and spent nineteen months as a prisoner of war, mostly at Andersonville prison.NGP 1/13/24 4PM AST

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Thomas Wakefield Blackburn

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  • Mary Ann (Howard) Prichard (abt.1837-1920), Thomas Blackburn's Mother-In-law. In her obituary, she was listed as one of the first pioneer women in Nebraska. She was a Reverends wife and dealt with several people. When her husband died she kept the family together as the Matriarch. [1] Kelly Popp Kley
  • John Thomas Blackburn was the first commanding officer of the famed F4U Corsair squadron VF-17 Jolly Rogers Heather Jenkinson 04:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Bartholomew Herrington (abt.1751-1821) - from Find A Grave: Bartholomew Herrington was a pioneer of Lexington, Kentucky, where he erected the first house there that had a shingle roof.[2] He is also a DAR patriot ancestor (see military below). Liza - Macklem-13 20:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
  • When the news of the sudden death of James Andrew Link (1856-1913) working as a train conductor in Guatemala came to his brother, it was initially reported he had died in a train crash. But the truth about his death emerged only two weeks later. James A. Link did not meet his death in a railroad wreck but was stabbed by an infuriated passenger of his train who became enraged when he disarmed him of a revolver. The passenger, who had been drinking heavily, became noisy and drew a revolver threatening other passengers on the coach. Link took the gun away from him and went into the next car. Upon his return, the fellow jumped on his back and stabbed him through the shoulder almost to the heart. Guillaume Albasini
  • According to Find A Grave Aloysius Elder (1757-1827) and his mother deeded the land for Mt. St. Mary's College and Seminary in Emmitsburg, Frederick County, Maryland, except for the land plot that was used as the Elder Cemetery, at the rwequest of Rev. John Carroll - first Bishop of the United States.
  • Added a FSP to try and work out some of his ancestors as linked belowLiza - Macklem-13 21:04, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Military Profiles

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  • James Henry enlisted in the 77th Regiment of the Ohio Infantry at the age of 19 on 18 October 1862 as a private. Ross-21279 04:14, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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Billy the Kid

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  • Billy's Step-Uncle Levi Columbus Antrim enlisted with the Union Army, was mustered into Company C, 27th Indiana Infantry, he was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg.Kreutzer-114
  • Chester C. Hollinger enlisted on 19 October 1864 as a Musician in the Union Army. He was mustered into Company F, 142nd Indiana Infantry. He was mustered out on 14 July 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. (He was an step-uncle-in-law to Billy.) Kreutzer-114
  • Charles Walter Abert enlisted with the Union Army on 6 August 1861, he was mustered into Company B, 41st Illinois Infantry. Charles was shot in the arm during the Battle of Shiloh. Charles was discharged for disability on 19 October 1862. He carried the bullet all his life. Kreutzer-114

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Pat Garrett

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  • Walter Keeling, Texas Notable: Federal Judge and Texas State Attorney General. From Wikipedia: He was an assistant county attorney of Limestone County, Texas from 1898 to 1902. He was county attorney of Limestone County from 1904 to 1908. He was a County Judge of Limestone County from 1908 to 1912. He was an assistant attorney general of Texas from 1912 to 1918. He was first assistant attorney general of Texas from 1918 to 1921. He was the Attorney General of Texas from 1921 to 1925. He was in private practice in Texas from 1925 to 1942.[1] Federal judicial service

Keeling was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 16, 1942, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas vacated by Judge Robert Johnston McMillan. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 26, 1942, and received his commission on January 28, 1942. Keeling served in that capacity until his death on January 22, 1945, in San Antonio, Texas.Tull-5 05:37, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

  • Pat Garrett's second wife Apolinaria Gutierrez appears in 7 censuses with 7 different wrong spelling of her first name : ... Apolonia (1860), Apolonaria (1870), Polinasia (1880), Polanasia (1900), Polinario (1910), Pauline (1920), and Polinaria (1930) Albasini-30 01:15, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Garrett: Dr. Thomas McKinnon excerpt from his obituary: Tom’s purpose in this world was to teach. He completed his bachelor’s degree in history at Southern Arkansas University. There he married his wife Frances. After serving as military police for the Army in New Jersey, Tom returned to school in Arkansas and while teaching junior high history and completed his Masters degree in Economics. With a wife and 3 young children, Tom moved to Mississippi and earned his Doctorate in Economics. That degree led him to Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas where he became the founding director of the Bessie Moore Center for Economic Education. His tenure at the U of A included leadership roles in teaching, research, curriculum development, and service on his journey to becoming Emeritus University Professor. Tom taught thousands of future teachers and business students as well as many educators throughout Arkansas and Eastern Europe. All respected his knowledge, professionalism, sense of humor and sincere interest in them. Tom embraced life and all the experiences it entails. He played on the Dismal Science baseball team and championed the annual Walton College Dead Day Float on the Buffalo River. He ran three marathons; played basketball; took annual hiking excursions with colleagues and his son Alex; hiked to Machu Pichu, the Grand Canyon, and the Camino De Santiago; cruised the South Pacific; taught in Italy three semesters, England and Turkey one semester, and on a ship for a semester at sea twice – sailing around the world accompanied by his wife. Tom was a great storyteller. He used this ability to entertain his children and their children with stories about his childhood, his dog “Old Dan,” and Creeping Covers. Storytelling was also his style of teaching.

After retirement, Tom began to write those stories about his childhood and McKinnon ancestors who fought in the Civil War. He completed and published, for his family, his life story, Footprints In The Sand. He even took an art class so he could illustrate one of his books. Tom’s children, grand and great grandchildren all share his passion for learning, traveling and experiencing life. He hiked, climbed, floated, and jogged around the globe, including an ancestral journey to the Isle of Skye, the origin of the McKinnon clan. There was always something new to learn or experience. Between his travels, Tom found great happiness in a day spent cooking-out on the deck with his wife, all the family and his dog Lucy.Tull-5 15:10, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

  • Garrett: Audrey Oaks , attended attending Buffalo State University College for Teachers, Buffalo, NY, where she graduated with a BS in Art Education. Her teaching career began in the Attica, NY school system as an art and drafting teacher (1955-1964). During this time Audrey earned her MS in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin. She became a resident of Stillwater, OK (1964), OSU Assistant Professor of Art Education, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction while earning her Ed.D. Audrey retired as an Associate Professor in the College of Education in 1990. During her retirement years, she was very active in the Payne County Retired Educators Assn., OSU Emeriti Assn., OK Art Educators Assn. and the National Art Education Assn. Audrey was honored by the OSU College of Education with the Hall of Fame Award 2004. Tull-5 02:01, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Ina Holliday 7 degrees from Pat Garrett, was a doll maker in 1910 censusTyner-799 22:54, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Military Profiles

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  • Aquilla Greer Sr Greer- 866, DAR A048022, Aquilla was living in then Henry Co. during the Revolutionary War and he signed the Oath of Allegiance there in 1777. Depending on the record, his age at the time was 58-62, very consistent with a man born c. 1719. Popp-547. Can't access DAR records.

CIVIL WAR

  • Garrett: Thomas McKinnon enlisted with the 2nd Battalion Arkansas Infantry in Mar 1862 in Virginia; may have already been a member of this group and reenlisted while in Virginia. He was in the General Hospital at Ashland for unknown reasons and subsequently died on 5 May 1862. He is buried at Woodland Cemetery, Ashland, Virginia. This burial ground was purchased from a Free Black Woman in 1862 to bury the many Confederate dead who were dying in hospitals in the vicinity. There are at least 231 soldiers buried in this cemetery, which today has over 3800 burials.Tull-5 03:27, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Garrett: Angus McKinnon also served with the 2nd Battalion Arkansas Infantry during the Civil War, enlisting in Eldorado, AR in Sep 1861. He was sick in Fredericksburg, VA in Nov 1861. The last record with 2nd Bat AR Inf was Feb 1861 when he was present with his unit.Tull-5 03:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Garrett: John Francis Lauderdale Private, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, was wounded severely of shoulder and arm at the Battle of Wilderness, taken POW by the Army of Northern Virginia, and eventually paroled at Appomattox Courthouse on 9 Ap 1865. He went back to Alabama, married his sweetheart, and died in 1922.Tull-5 20:44, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Garrett: David L. Lauderdale served with the 2nd Alabama Cavalry and 49th Alabama Infantry. He was a POW at Talladega near the end of the war and records indicate he was paroled there in May 1865. He was paroled at Greensboro, NC in Apr 1865. He had a copy of this parole, which he sent to the pension board and after his pension was approved, he requested his parole back as he didn't want to lose it. He moved from Cossa Co., AL to Texas in about 1900 and applied for a Pension in 1913; approved in 1915, based on his service. At his death, he had a lovely tribute written in the local paper. [3]

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WORLD WAR II

  • Agnes Anastasia (McGraw) Montgomery was 1st Lieutenant in the U. S. Army during World War II. She married Pat Garrett’s grandson John Ralph Montgomery. Bianchi-201 02:00, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Garrett: Louie M. Hunt, Corporal U. S. Army with Battery A, 770th Field Artillery Battalion.Tull-5 19:51, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Garrett: Warren Jack Morgan Served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. He was a Non-Commissioned officer, Senior Master/Sgt, and also served as Executive VP of the Non-Commissioned Officers Association, USA. Tull-5 19:51, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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  • Garrett: Richard Estrada served in the US Army in Korea for one year. He was killed in a bar room brawl in 1962. Tull-5 21:53, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Garrett: Chester Lynn Garrett , serving in the US Navy, in the Vietnam War, and received the Vietnam Service Medal with Bronze Star, National Defense Service Medal, and the Navy Unit & Meritorious Unit Commendation. Tull-5 21:53, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Lew Wallace

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  • Frederick C McElfatrick (1885-1941), charged with theft of block tin at age 23 in July 1908. |  ( Evans-3182 18:22, 11 January 2024 (UTC) )
  • John Test (1781 - 1849), Wallace maternal grandfather, ran a grist mill. As he ground the corn or grain he read law books. In 1812 he was granted a license to practice law. Six years later, in 1818. he was elected judge of the 3rd Indiana Circuit Court serving from 1816–1819. In 1822 he was elected to Congress as a Democratic-Republican in the newly created Indiana 3rd district and served three non–consecutive terms in the House of Representatives. Mary Hall, one of his daughters and Wallace's aunt, married James Rariden (1795 - 1856) who also served two terms in Congress as a representative for Indiana. Albasini-30 19:24, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
  • The house originally built in 1857 in Springfield (Illinois) for John Wickliffe Taylor (1798- ), minister and judge of the Sangamon County Court from 1852 to 1856 and his wife Jemima Gray, later served as a recovery center for prostitutes and then as a school for African American children. The City of Springfield issued a demolition permit in 2013, the Springfield Project, a community development organization, took over the ownership of the property and had the demolition permit lifted. The Taylor House will serve as a heritage/community center. Albasini-30 21:28, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
  • John Dean one of 4 buried in Congressional Cemetery, for being associated with the underground railroad.Kreutzer-114
  • Robert Shelton Wharton (abt.1811-1893) the second husband of Lew Wallace's mother's stepmother was killed when hit by a cable car.Schweger-2 04:49, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Edward Test Wallace, brother served with him in the Civil War. Captain Ed Wallace was an aide in the 11th Indiana Infantry Regiment to his brother, and became his Aide-De-Camp at the defense of Cincinatti, Ohio.Stephens-3929 14:12, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Edward Test Wallace brother of Lew Wallace, served in the Military. He was a veteran of the Mexican-American War and Civil War. He was buried twice first was in Round Mountain Cemetery in Brownwood, Brown County, Texas. The second time was in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. He lays to rest with his siblings, including General Lew Wallace.Stephens-3929 14:52, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

William Wallace brother of General Lew Wallace, was a Lawyer. He was President Harrisons first Law Partner.

  • Lew Wallace's wife Susan Elston-461 was a poet, essayist, author of six books, and served as her husband's editor. Many of her poems and essays were published in magazines and newspapers such as The Atlantic Monthly, New York Tribune, etc. They were married for more than fifty years. After her husband's death, she and a friend edited his unfinished autobiography for publication. Sometimes she traveled with her husband on his diplomatic missions, notably to the New Mexico territory, Turkey and the Holy Lands.[4] Chapel-160 20:40, 14 January 2024 (UTC)Chapel-160
  • The brother of Lew Wallace's grandfather's second wife, James Gay Sawkins (1806-1878), was a limner (a painter of miniatures including portraits done on ivory). After a brief professorship of drawing in Virginia he painted in Mexico, ran copper mining operations in Cuba and Peru, teaching himself geology. He then headed to the California gold rush and then became a mine inspector in Hawaii and Australia. Work in geology took him to Tonga, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Guyana. Eventually, he retired in England with his third wife, as a member of the Geological Society of London. Meanwhile, everywhere he travelled he painted, sometimes selling his paintings for a living. His drawings from Mexico were used in a Smithsonian published book on Mexican history and archaeology. His paintings are found in museums in Hawaii, Australia, and Jamaica.Schweger-2 06:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
  • James Gay Sawkins (1806-1878) second wife had an affair with the grandson of Paul Revere. James Sawkins suspected the affair and formed a Naval Board of Inquiry to look into his wife's suspected affair with the naval general Joseph Warren Revere. The final decision was that there had been an affair. Revere resigned from his job and the wife Rosa was unable to find work as a result.Schweger-2 06:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Lew Wallace's sister-in-law, Zelda (Harrison) Wallace (1847-1914), was an opera singer. She was the first to sing the title role in Carmen in the United States. Zelda's first husband, Edward S. C. Seguin and his family, were also all opera singers. |  ( Evans-3182 14:55, 15 January 2024 (UTC) )
  • Theodore Haughey, the father-in-law of Zerelda Wallace, was the President of the Indianapolis National Bank. He was largely responsible for the failure of the bank in 1893 due to embezzlement to cover his bad investments. He ultimately pleaded guilty and was convicted. His son Schuyler Haughey who was associated with another one of his businesses was subsequently tried on related charges but was acquitted. The trials were frontpage news with detailed coverage of the bank’s collapse, indictments, and the trials. The oldest son, Louis Haughey, the husband of Zerelda Wallace, was never tried although he was likely responsible for the crimes that his younger brother was charged with. Zerelda is the daughter of William Wallace. (Ullrich-21 12:23, 15 January 2024 (UTC) )
  • Henry Smith Lane served as governor of Indiana for only two days. He resigned when the Legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate. After a major speech in Evansville, Lane attended the second Republican National Convention, and was influential in helping Abraham Lincoln win the presidential nomination. Lane and Lincoln had a friendly relationship and Lincoln once said of Lane, "Here comes an uglier man than I am".Albasini-30 18:26, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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  • Presley Gray (1764 - 1838) Presley Gray volunteered at about the age of seventeen in the Volunteer Militia from Fairfax , Virginia in the Battalion of Alexandria Volunteers under General Washington, serving under Maj. Dennis Ramsey, Capt. Charles Little, Lt. Thompson Mayson, and Ensign James Doneal ( Donald?). He served about four months under Gen Arthur St. Clair. in 1784 he was assigned to the Indian wars in Kentucky, moving to Nelson County and commissioned as a Captain in 1788 and served until 1795 when the Treaty of Greenville was signed. He lived under constant threat of Indian attacks. In 1791 he volunteered for the ill fated St. Clair's Campaign on the Wabash. In 1814 he was commissioned by Gov. Shelby as commander of the 13th Regiment of Kentucky Militia destined for New Orleans Louisiana to serve under General Andrew Jackson Dec. 20, 1814. He was taken sick in Louisville with a great cold and was unable to serve. General John Thomas visited his boat and ordered him to go ashore where he could be taken care of. He lingered there until Jan. 19th 1815, when he resigned his commission. Gray's Pension was denied under the Pension act of 1832. as he did not serve a full six months in the Revolutionary War. He subsequently petitioned Congress for a pension which was denied in 1842. Albasini-30 20:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR

  • Edward Test Wallace brother of Lew Wallace, served in the Military. He was a veteran of the Mexican-American War.Stephens-3929 14:52, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Henry Smith Lane mustered volunteers and became major of the 1st Indiana Regiment at the onset of the Mexican War in 1846. Later he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and completed his service in 1848.

CIVIL WAR

  • Edward Test Wallace also served in the Civil War (1861-1865). From the beginning to the end, he was a Captain in the 11th Indiana Infantry Regiment. Later becoming the aide to his brother, General Lew Wallace at the Battle of Shiloh and Aide-de-Camp to his brother at the defending of Cincinnati, Ohio. He remained holding the rank of Captain in the Veteran Reserve Corp, at the end of the war.Stephens-3929 14:52, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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  1. Martha J. (Gilbreath) O'Neal (1842-1885)
  2. Matilde Vallejo (abt.1720-)
  3. Joseph Coulter Ranson Sr (1819-1883)
  4. Margaret (Harrold) Wakefield (1806-)
  5. Who is the "aunt" on his brother Patrick's 1905 New York census record, Elieberth (Elizabeth?) Anthony? (Age=56, birth place=USA, relationship to head=Aunt)
  6. Can we find a mother for Pat's first wife? Juanita (Martinez) Garrett (1860-1879)
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