John WALLACE

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            Name: Geo. B. Wallace 
            Age: 30
            Captain: A. O. Smoot
            Arrival Date: 26 Sep 1847
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Earl Wallace telephone conversation (801-278-4573) re: trying to find descendants of George & Melissa Wallace and portraits.  He does not know of any at present time....nor does he know what happened to the paintings of Howes and Melissa..
4-12-01 (Earl is not related to me...he is related to the Wallace Family  through George B. Wallace & Hannah Davis. Earls great grandfather & Howes Crowell Wallace were 1/2 brothers.  Earls father knew Howes well.
Earl stated that George B. Wallace never got over his first wife and family not coming with him to Nauvoo.  She was a stanch Catholic and her parents would have nothing to do with him.  George tried to get the children after she died  but they wouldn't let him have them.  The first wife died not too long after George and Melissa went to the valley.  He said that the marriage of George and Mellissa was more for convenience and companionship not so much for romance between the two.  However, they did have six children together.

I mentioned to Earl that it would be interesting to go after the obituary for Howes Crowell Wallace in the Desert News.  He said that Howes had two daughters but he didn't know their married names. That might reveal that information.

Earl Wallace
4479 Camille St.
Salt Lake City, Ut
84124-3675
Tel: 801-278-4573

Capt. George Benjamin Wallace, 2nd company into Salt Lake Valley.....
Family records of Earl Wallace, Salt Lake City, Utah.
84117.:

IGI has baptism date as 23 Oct 1980 SL....However, he was baptized earlier, December 1842 in Boston, Massachusetts..

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1856,1860,1870 Census of Utah
1850 Census of Utah County of Great Salt Lake Deseret p.21  Carpenter, 33   b.NH.
FHL 979.2 D3e PIONEERS and PROMINENT MEN of UTAH..1847 P.91 (Picture)
FHL 979.2 W2P PIONEERS of 1847     PL139.

Sketch of George B. Wallace, a Utah Pioneer of 1847.  Prepared by his grandcaughter, Vivian W. Wilkins (1936) for Granger Camp, Salt Lake County Daughters of Utah Pioneers. (DUP)
Copy in possession of Earl Wallace, Salt Lake City, Utah..
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Wallace, George Benjamin, president of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion from 1874 to 1876, was the son of John Wallace and Mary True, and was born Feb. 16, 1817, at Epsom, Merrimack county. New Hampshire. Becoming a convert to "Mormonism," he was baptized and confirmed in December, 1842, by Elder Freeman Nickerson, and he was ordained a High Priest in Boston in July, 1844, by Brigham Young. In the spring of 1844 he was selected by the Prophet Joseph to electioneer in his interest as candidate for President of the United States. This was at a time when agitation over the slave question was being brought to the front as a national issue in the politics of the country. At this time Bro. Wallace was carrying on an extensive lumber business in Boston, employing hundreds of men. He emigrated to Nauvoo in 1844, soon after the Prophet's death. At that city he acted as undertaker during some of the most trying days experienced by the Saints there. He was also the first sexton who dug civilized graves in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. When the emigration, which followed the Pioneers to Great Salt Lake valley in the fall of 1847, was organized, Geo. B. Wallace was appointed a captain of fifty, which he led to the valley, arriving on the present site of Salt Lake City in September, of that year. He built one of the best and most commodious houses in the Old Fort, and the general authorities of the Church held many important council meetings at his residence. At a meeting of the First Presidency held at the house of Bro. Wallace, in the Old Fort, Feb. 12, 1849, Charles C. Rich, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards were ordained Apostles. The more Permanent organization of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion and the ordaining of nearly all the first Bishops in Salt Lake City also took place in Elder Wallace's house, in February, 1849. When the first missionaries were called in Great Salt Lake valley to go to the nations of the earth, Elder Wallace was one of the number. He was called to Great Britain, and crossed the mountains and plains late in the fall of 1849, together with four of the Apostles, and many other Elders. He arrived in Liverpool, England, June 9, 1850, and labored in the British Isles about two years, most of the time as counselor to Franklin D. Richards in the presidency of the British Mission. "He returns to Zion," [p.292] wrote Elder Richards editorially, "with our blessing, and the blessing of thousands of Saints who have been instructed, strengthened and built up in their most holy faith, by his ministrations while on his late mission." Returning home from his mission, Elder Wallace sailed from Liverpool, March 20, 1852, and arrived in Salt Lake City in August following. After his return from this mission, Elder Wallace yielded obedience to the higher law of marriage and again took an active part in Pioneer labor in the sterile valley of the Great Salt Lake. As a member of the High Priests' quorum he participated in the ceremonies of laying the corner stones of the Salt Lake City Temple, and offered the dedicatory prayer at the laying of the northwest corner stone of that noted structure. In 1867, among others, he was instrumental in securing the organization of the Brighton Ward, on the west side of Jordan river, At the April conference, 1860, he was sustained as second counselor to President Daniel Spencer, of the Salt Lake Stake, and at the April conference in 1866 he was promoted to the position of first counselor. He acted in the latter position till May 9, 1874, when he was called to preside over the Stake, succeeding John W. Young in that office. He filled this position about two years. From 1877 to the time of his death, which occurred at his residence at Granger Jan. 30, 1900, he acted as president of the High Priests' quorum in the Salt Lake Stake of Zion.


   


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"Feb. 17, 1849,... The Council met in Phelp's school room at 10:30 a. m.... Daniel H. Wells, Joseph Heywood, and George B. Wallace were appointed a committee to select a suitable place for a burying ground. A few weeks later Pres. Brigham Young attended a Council meeting in the school room.

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"Daniel H. Wells, of the committee on selecting a site for a burying ground, said the committee were now prepared to report. They thought the most suitable place was northeast of the city. Twenty acres was included in the survey."

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It was natural that Mr. Wallace should lead the committee to his two little graves. They were the first burials in that location, and became the first entries on the record. A beautiful granite monument now marks the spot on Plat C, Lot 6. The Civil War veterans have a fine flag pole in the same plat.

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George Benjamin Wallace was born February 16, 1817, in Epsom, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, the son of John Wallace and Mary True. They had a family of 12 children, 7 girls and 5 boys. His mother died when he was about eleven years of age. George worked hard and helped on the farm, and also learned the trade of carpentry. Later on, when John Wallace became ill, he requested George to remain at home offering him one-half of his possessions if he would help him manage the farm. His decision was in the negative, as he was planning marriage with a distant relative and a very different career. When he was twenty-three years old he married Mary C. McMurphy who was born April 27, 1818, at Boston, Massachusetts. This marriage was performed either the 13th or 14th of February, 1840, in Boston, where they resided for some time, George becoming a building contractor. They were affiliated with the First Baptist Church.