Benjamin Franklin WALLACE

  General Notes:

Photo: Benjamin Franklin Wallace, 1837-1905, and his wife Maria are buried at Green Mount Cemetery, Franklin Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Originally interred in Salem Methodist Cemetery in Washington County, Pennsylvania, the bodies of Benjamin and Maria were moved to the Greene Mount.
Credit: Greene County, Pennsylvania Cemeteries CD No. 2 by James Fordyce, 2002


1837 BIRTH of Benjamin Franklin Wallace ("Ben")

1840 CENSUS

1850 CENSUS, Virginia, Wetzel County, District 64 (September 20) (Benjamin "Wallis," age 13, is with his parents)

1852 DEATH of mother, Jane (Hutchinson) Wallace

1856 MARRIAGE of father, Benjamin Essex Wallace, and Mary Ann McCann (or McKahan)

1860 MARRIAGE of Benjamin Franklin Wallace and Maria Sellers on February 15 in Marshall County, West Virginia

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township, P. O. Crows Mill (June 25) ("Benj." Wallace, age 22, "Carpenter") (wife "Maria," age 18) (census taken June 25)

1862 ENLISTMENT in the Civil War

1865 DISCHARGE from Civil War

1870 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Marion Township, P. O. Waynesburg (June 7) ("Benjamin," age 33, "Carpenter") (wife "Mariah," age 30)

1880 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Franklin Township (June 14) ("B. Franklin" Wallace, age 43, "Carpenter") (wife "Mariah," age 39)

1890 VETERANS SCHEDULE (Civil War), Pennsylvania, Greene County, Morgan Township ("Benjamin F. Wallace," "Private, Company A, 140th Pennsylvania Infantry, August 18, 1862 - September 4, 1865," length of service "3 years 0 months 18 days")

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Waynesburg Boro (June 1) ("Beny J." Wallace, age 63, "Carpenter") (wife "Marta J." in some census indexes; she was age 59)

1905 DEATH, Benjamin Franklin Wallace, "in his 69th year"

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1910 CENSUS, Oregon, Multnomah County, Portland (no specific date is on the census page) ("Maria J.," age 69, widow, born in Pennsylvania, "Own income") (in the household are Maria's daughters Laura, age 33, "Stenographer, Wholesale Groceries," and "Nancy," age 31, "Teacher, State")

1914 DEATH of wife, Maria (Sellers) Wallace, at approximately 74 years



MILITARY SERVICE: Civil War, enlisted in Pennsylvania on Sept 4, 1862, in Company A, 140th Regiment; transferred to 51st Company, 2nd Battalion; discharged Sept 4, 1865. Ben had been captured at the Battle of Gettysburg.




Sharon Cunningham Ratliff, October 20, 2006 e-mail:

"Benjamin Wallace, 22, married Maria Sellers, 19, on February 15, 1860, according to MARSHALL COUNTY MARRIAGES by Cochran, Metz & Camp. Benjamin and Maria are in the 1880 census in Franklin Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. They are buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Waynesburg, PA."




OBITUARY (Bejnamin) from WAYNESBURG REPUBLICAN, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1905:


B. F. WALLACE

B. F. Wallace, a well known and respected citizen, died at his home, corner of Lincoln and Cumberland streets, Sunday evening, Dec. 24, at 8:25. He was in his 69^th year and had been ill only a week with a complication of diseases. At the outbreak of the civil war he volunteered his service for the Union cause and served three years in Co. A, 140^th Pennsylvania regiment. He was in the battle of Gettysburg, being taken prisoner there, and later removed to Belle Island and from there he was transferred to Libbey prison where he was confined for two months, when he was paroled. He was united in marriage in 1860 to Maria Sellers, who survives him. The following children also survive: John M., of Waynesburg, Mrs. Elijah Huggins, of McKeesport, Maggie and Laura Wallace, at home, Dr. George S. Wallace, a surgeon in the U. S. army, stationed at Viscaya, Porto (sic) Rico, and Miss Nannie Wallace, of Salem, Oregon. Deceased was highly esteemed and a man known for his strict honesty and integrity. He will be greatly missed in our community. Funeral was held Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., services being conducted by Rev. J. B. Taylor.




OBITUARY (Maria) from WAYNESBURG REPUBLICAN, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1914:


MRS. B. F. WALLACE DIED SUDDENLY

Former Waynesburg Lady Passes Away at her Home in Cooks, Washington

Word was received here yesterday of the sudden death of Mrs. Maria J. Wallace, which occurred at her home at Cooks, Washington, Wednesday morning.

Mrs. Wallace was the widow of B. F. Wallace, deceased, and formerly resided in Waynesburg. She removed to the state of Washington about ten years ago.

Mrs. Wallace was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Sellers, deceased, and was aged about seventy-two years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was most highly respected. The following children survive: John Wallace, of Oswego, N. Y.; Dr. George Wallace of Pittsburgh; Mrs. E. H. Huggins, of Waynesburg; Mrs. Margaret Love and Miss Laura Wallace, of Cooks, Wash., and Mrs. Charles Dodd, of Salem, Oregon. Three brothers also survive, A. H. and Frank Sellers, of Waynesburg, and John Sellers, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The remains will be brought to Waynesburg for interment.




CONTRIBUTOR to this page:

Sharon Cunningham Ratliff

Benjamin married Maria SELLERS, daughter of George SELLERS and Elizabeth RICHMOND, on February 15, 1860 in Marshall County, West Virginia. (Maria SELLERS was born in October 1840 in Pennsylvania, died on September 2, 1914 in Cooks, Washington (Or Cook, Klickitat County, Washington) and was buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Franklin Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.)