"Buried in the family burying ground at Paul's Valley, Garvin County, Oklahoma.," according to her obituary.
She was the author of "The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy" (1942).
She married Dr. William Thomas Wallace, March 4, 1902, and was the mother of Judge Creekmore Wallace, former Oklahoma state legislator; U.S. District Judge William Robert Wallace, Sr.; Oklahoma Secretary of State Herbert Wallace; attorney Grady Wallace and attorney Thomas Hiram Wallace.
Her biography in The Chronicles of Oklahoma by the Oklahoma Historical Society (Vol. 25, p.407) gives her birth date July 15, 1866, and death date Oct. 7, 1942. Her son William Robert Wallace's Sons of the American Revolution application gives her birth as July 7, 1866, and death date October 1943. Her book on the Wier-Creekmore Genealogy was published in 1944.
She was a teacher. "She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the D.A.R., and the U.D.C., and named the Sam Davis Chapter, U.D.C. at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and was its first president; she also belonged to the Parliamentary Law Club of Pauls Valley and took a great interest in civic affairs." (Chronicles of Oklahoma, vol. 25, p.408.)
Her youngest son Robert Hiram Wallace married Lucile (Lucy) Romig Mauldin who was “a renowned golfer and twice was the Oklahoma State Amateur Champion.”
There were also two daughters, Jewell Wallace and Mary Josephine Wallace Spohn who told me that her brother Judge W.R. Wallace arranged to have her mother’s book published. She said she did not know whether he or her brother Judge Creekmore Wallace had the family letters referred to in her mother’s book. She was kind enough to send me her mother’s book after my inquiry, although my own grandmother had given me hers.
Mary Wallace Spohn and William A. Spohn were the parents of Betty Jo Spohn who married Joe Emerson Spencer, who played football with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1948), the Cleveland Browns (1949), and the Green Bay Packers (1850-52). He was later offensive line coach for the Houston Oilers (NFL Championship 1961), asst. coach of the New York Jets in 1968 (winning Super Bowl III), and was offensive line coach for the New Orleans Saints (1981-85) during the time I spoke and corresponded with his mother-in-law.
Another grandson Creekmore Wallace was the defense attorney of the Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh.
Mrs. Wallace described her parents and the family moving to Texas in her book.
The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1942) by Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace:
Page 35: “Due to the conditions in the state of Mississippi resulting from the Civil War, my father decided to move to Texas. There were no banks available and before the time of green-back money. My father carried a bag of gold around his waist, my mother wore an underskirt padded with twenty dollar gold pieces.”
Page 36: “The family boarded a Miss. River steamer and went to New Orleans. While in this City they were guests of the famous old St. Charles Hotel. By boat they crossed over to Indianola, Texas, and moved inland about forty miles to Lavaca County. Here my father leased a large plantation and planted it in corn and cotton. The crop was totally destroyed by a hail storm. The second crop was planted and, strange as it seems, destroyed in the same way. At that time Lavaca County was heavily timbered. Thousands of long-horned cattle roamed the woods and were worth at most nothing. My father invested the balance of his money in oxen, yoked them together and started back to the old home State. They headed south to cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans. A yellow fever epidemic was raging in the City. My father was taken seriously ill, however, not with yellow fever. He never knew what became of his cattle. Six months later a man drove up before our home. On a bed in the back of his wagon was my father. After recovering he moved our family into Hallettsville, the county seat. Everything was lost but faith and courage.
Under a live oak tree he set up a blacksmith shop. To this out-door beginning he later built several business houses, a saddlery shop and a large woodwork establishment where plows, wagons, buggies, hacks and coffins were made. Nearly everything was home-made.
In a small account book of my father’s for blacksmith work done in 1868 such names appear as General Baylor, Colonel Moss, General Dowling and numbers of other Confederate Army officers, who after the din of the battle field was over, had settled down to the peaceful pursuit of farming.
Page 37: “In 1869 my father was again building. This time a hotel and planted the yard in evergreens and shade trees.
My sister, Mrs. D.A. Brewster, visited this old home in 1913. The house was in good condition and the yard beautiful with shrubbery.
Salado, in Bell County, had one of the foremost colleges in the State. My oldest sister was there in school. We moved to this town in 1873 and bought an interesting old home. A Dr. Jones had improved the place. On a corner was a rock office where he kept his medicines and received his patients. My sister Alice married a lawyer, Frank M. Ray. He turned the doctor’s office into a court room.
After living here several years, our neighbor, Judge O.T. Tyler, made my father a good offer to settle on a section of unimproved land in Erath County. We moved in 1881. After several years of hard work and careful management this wilderness was changed into a good home. There is one thing I especially desire to mention in the improvement of this farm. South of the peach orchard, bordering on the creek, were several acres of low, level land. When my father and mother were old and the neighbors around thought their work in life about done, they planted this land in pecan and walnut trees. There is nothing like it in all the country. It is a living memorial to them.
My father was a Royal Arch Mason, having joined the Masonic fraternity before the Civil War.
Both father and mother were devout Christians, members of the Greens Creek Baptist Church. They are buried…
page 38: “ in the Greens Creek cemetery with a tall marble monument, beautifully inscribed to their memory.”
She was the author of "The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy" (1942).
She married Dr. William Thomas Wallace, March 4, 1902, and was the mother of Judge Creekmore Wallace, former Oklahoma state legislator; U.S. District Judge William Robert Wallace, Sr.; Oklahoma Secretary of State Herbert Wallace; attorney Grady Wallace and attorney Thomas Hiram Wallace.
Her biography in The Chronicles of Oklahoma by the Oklahoma Historical Society (Vol. 25, p.407) gives her birth date July 15, 1866, and death date Oct. 7, 1942. Her son William Robert Wallace's Sons of the American Revolution application gives her birth as July 7, 1866, and death date October 1943. Her book on the Wier-Creekmore Genealogy was published in 1944.
She was a teacher. "She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the D.A.R., and the U.D.C., and named the Sam Davis Chapter, U.D.C. at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and was its first president; she also belonged to the Parliamentary Law Club of Pauls Valley and took a great interest in civic affairs." (Chronicles of Oklahoma, vol. 25, p.408.)
Her youngest son Robert Hiram Wallace married Lucile (Lucy) Romig Mauldin who was “a renowned golfer and twice was the Oklahoma State Amateur Champion.”
There were also two daughters, Jewell Wallace and Mary Josephine Wallace Spohn who told me that her brother Judge W.R. Wallace arranged to have her mother’s book published. She said she did not know whether he or her brother Judge Creekmore Wallace had the family letters referred to in her mother’s book. She was kind enough to send me her mother’s book after my inquiry, although my own grandmother had given me hers.
Mary Wallace Spohn and William A. Spohn were the parents of Betty Jo Spohn who married Joe Emerson Spencer, who played football with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1948), the Cleveland Browns (1949), and the Green Bay Packers (1850-52). He was later offensive line coach for the Houston Oilers (NFL Championship 1961), asst. coach of the New York Jets in 1968 (winning Super Bowl III), and was offensive line coach for the New Orleans Saints (1981-85) during the time I spoke and corresponded with his mother-in-law.
Another grandson Creekmore Wallace was the defense attorney of the Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh.
Mrs. Wallace described her parents and the family moving to Texas in her book.
The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1942) by Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace:
Page 35: “Due to the conditions in the state of Mississippi resulting from the Civil War, my father decided to move to Texas. There were no banks available and before the time of green-back money. My father carried a bag of gold around his waist, my mother wore an underskirt padded with twenty dollar gold pieces.”
Page 36: “The family boarded a Miss. River steamer and went to New Orleans. While in this City they were guests of the famous old St. Charles Hotel. By boat they crossed over to Indianola, Texas, and moved inland about forty miles to Lavaca County. Here my father leased a large plantation and planted it in corn and cotton. The crop was totally destroyed by a hail storm. The second crop was planted and, strange as it seems, destroyed in the same way. At that time Lavaca County was heavily timbered. Thousands of long-horned cattle roamed the woods and were worth at most nothing. My father invested the balance of his money in oxen, yoked them together and started back to the old home State. They headed south to cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans. A yellow fever epidemic was raging in the City. My father was taken seriously ill, however, not with yellow fever. He never knew what became of his cattle. Six months later a man drove up before our home. On a bed in the back of his wagon was my father. After recovering he moved our family into Hallettsville, the county seat. Everything was lost but faith and courage.
Under a live oak tree he set up a blacksmith shop. To this out-door beginning he later built several business houses, a saddlery shop and a large woodwork establishment where plows, wagons, buggies, hacks and coffins were made. Nearly everything was home-made.
In a small account book of my father’s for blacksmith work done in 1868 such names appear as General Baylor, Colonel Moss, General Dowling and numbers of other Confederate Army officers, who after the din of the battle field was over, had settled down to the peaceful pursuit of farming.
Page 37: “In 1869 my father was again building. This time a hotel and planted the yard in evergreens and shade trees.
My sister, Mrs. D.A. Brewster, visited this old home in 1913. The house was in good condition and the yard beautiful with shrubbery.
Salado, in Bell County, had one of the foremost colleges in the State. My oldest sister was there in school. We moved to this town in 1873 and bought an interesting old home. A Dr. Jones had improved the place. On a corner was a rock office where he kept his medicines and received his patients. My sister Alice married a lawyer, Frank M. Ray. He turned the doctor’s office into a court room.
After living here several years, our neighbor, Judge O.T. Tyler, made my father a good offer to settle on a section of unimproved land in Erath County. We moved in 1881. After several years of hard work and careful management this wilderness was changed into a good home. There is one thing I especially desire to mention in the improvement of this farm. South of the peach orchard, bordering on the creek, were several acres of low, level land. When my father and mother were old and the neighbors around thought their work in life about done, they planted this land in pecan and walnut trees. There is nothing like it in all the country. It is a living memorial to them.
My father was a Royal Arch Mason, having joined the Masonic fraternity before the Civil War.
Both father and mother were devout Christians, members of the Greens Creek Baptist Church. They are buried…
page 38: “ in the Greens Creek cemetery with a tall marble monument, beautifully inscribed to their memory.”
"Buried in the family burying ground at Paul's Valley, Garvin County, Oklahoma.," according to her obituary.
She was the author of "The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy" (1942).
She married Dr. William Thomas Wallace, March 4, 1902, and was the mother of Judge Creekmore Wallace, former Oklahoma state legislator; U.S. District Judge William Robert Wallace, Sr.; Oklahoma Secretary of State Herbert Wallace; attorney Grady Wallace and attorney Thomas Hiram Wallace.
Her biography in The Chronicles of Oklahoma by the Oklahoma Historical Society (Vol. 25, p.407) gives her birth date July 15, 1866, and death date Oct. 7, 1942. Her son William Robert Wallace's Sons of the American Revolution application gives her birth as July 7, 1866, and death date October 1943. Her book on the Wier-Creekmore Genealogy was published in 1944.
She was a teacher. "She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the D.A.R., and the U.D.C., and named the Sam Davis Chapter, U.D.C. at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and was its first president; she also belonged to the Parliamentary Law Club of Pauls Valley and took a great interest in civic affairs." (Chronicles of Oklahoma, vol. 25, p.408.)
Her youngest son Robert Hiram Wallace married Lucile (Lucy) Romig Mauldin who was “a renowned golfer and twice was the Oklahoma State Amateur Champion.”
There were also two daughters, Jewell Wallace and Mary Josephine Wallace Spohn who told me that her brother Judge W.R. Wallace arranged to have her mother’s book published. She said she did not know whether he or her brother Judge Creekmore Wallace had the family letters referred to in her mother’s book. She was kind enough to send me her mother’s book after my inquiry, although my own grandmother had given me hers.
Mary Wallace Spohn and William A. Spohn were the parents of Betty Jo Spohn who married Joe Emerson Spencer, who played football with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1948), the Cleveland Browns (1949), and the Green Bay Packers (1850-52). He was later offensive line coach for the Houston Oilers (NFL Championship 1961), asst. coach of the New York Jets in 1968 (winning Super Bowl III), and was offensive line coach for the New Orleans Saints (1981-85) during the time I spoke and corresponded with his mother-in-law.
Another grandson Creekmore Wallace was the defense attorney of the Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh.
Mrs. Wallace described her parents and the family moving to Texas in her book.
The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1942) by Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace:
Page 35: “Due to the conditions in the state of Mississippi resulting from the Civil War, my father decided to move to Texas. There were no banks available and before the time of green-back money. My father carried a bag of gold around his waist, my mother wore an underskirt padded with twenty dollar gold pieces.”
Page 36: “The family boarded a Miss. River steamer and went to New Orleans. While in this City they were guests of the famous old St. Charles Hotel. By boat they crossed over to Indianola, Texas, and moved inland about forty miles to Lavaca County. Here my father leased a large plantation and planted it in corn and cotton. The crop was totally destroyed by a hail storm. The second crop was planted and, strange as it seems, destroyed in the same way. At that time Lavaca County was heavily timbered. Thousands of long-horned cattle roamed the woods and were worth at most nothing. My father invested the balance of his money in oxen, yoked them together and started back to the old home State. They headed south to cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans. A yellow fever epidemic was raging in the City. My father was taken seriously ill, however, not with yellow fever. He never knew what became of his cattle. Six months later a man drove up before our home. On a bed in the back of his wagon was my father. After recovering he moved our family into Hallettsville, the county seat. Everything was lost but faith and courage.
Under a live oak tree he set up a blacksmith shop. To this out-door beginning he later built several business houses, a saddlery shop and a large woodwork establishment where plows, wagons, buggies, hacks and coffins were made. Nearly everything was home-made.
In a small account book of my father’s for blacksmith work done in 1868 such names appear as General Baylor, Colonel Moss, General Dowling and numbers of other Confederate Army officers, who after the din of the battle field was over, had settled down to the peaceful pursuit of farming.
Page 37: “In 1869 my father was again building. This time a hotel and planted the yard in evergreens and shade trees.
My sister, Mrs. D.A. Brewster, visited this old home in 1913. The house was in good condition and the yard beautiful with shrubbery.
Salado, in Bell County, had one of the foremost colleges in the State. My oldest sister was there in school. We moved to this town in 1873 and bought an interesting old home. A Dr. Jones had improved the place. On a corner was a rock office where he kept his medicines and received his patients. My sister Alice married a lawyer, Frank M. Ray. He turned the doctor’s office into a court room.
After living here several years, our neighbor, Judge O.T. Tyler, made my father a good offer to settle on a section of unimproved land in Erath County. We moved in 1881. After several years of hard work and careful management this wilderness was changed into a good home. There is one thing I especially desire to mention in the improvement of this farm. South of the peach orchard, bordering on the creek, were several acres of low, level land. When my father and mother were old and the neighbors around thought their work in life about done, they planted this land in pecan and walnut trees. There is nothing like it in all the country. It is a living memorial to them.
My father was a Royal Arch Mason, having joined the Masonic fraternity before the Civil War.
Both father and mother were devout Christians, members of the Greens Creek Baptist Church. They are buried…
page 38: “ in the Greens Creek cemetery with a tall marble monument, beautifully inscribed to their memory.”
She was the author of "The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy" (1942).
She married Dr. William Thomas Wallace, March 4, 1902, and was the mother of Judge Creekmore Wallace, former Oklahoma state legislator; U.S. District Judge William Robert Wallace, Sr.; Oklahoma Secretary of State Herbert Wallace; attorney Grady Wallace and attorney Thomas Hiram Wallace.
Her biography in The Chronicles of Oklahoma by the Oklahoma Historical Society (Vol. 25, p.407) gives her birth date July 15, 1866, and death date Oct. 7, 1942. Her son William Robert Wallace's Sons of the American Revolution application gives her birth as July 7, 1866, and death date October 1943. Her book on the Wier-Creekmore Genealogy was published in 1944.
She was a teacher. "She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the D.A.R., and the U.D.C., and named the Sam Davis Chapter, U.D.C. at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and was its first president; she also belonged to the Parliamentary Law Club of Pauls Valley and took a great interest in civic affairs." (Chronicles of Oklahoma, vol. 25, p.408.)
Her youngest son Robert Hiram Wallace married Lucile (Lucy) Romig Mauldin who was “a renowned golfer and twice was the Oklahoma State Amateur Champion.”
There were also two daughters, Jewell Wallace and Mary Josephine Wallace Spohn who told me that her brother Judge W.R. Wallace arranged to have her mother’s book published. She said she did not know whether he or her brother Judge Creekmore Wallace had the family letters referred to in her mother’s book. She was kind enough to send me her mother’s book after my inquiry, although my own grandmother had given me hers.
Mary Wallace Spohn and William A. Spohn were the parents of Betty Jo Spohn who married Joe Emerson Spencer, who played football with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1948), the Cleveland Browns (1949), and the Green Bay Packers (1850-52). He was later offensive line coach for the Houston Oilers (NFL Championship 1961), asst. coach of the New York Jets in 1968 (winning Super Bowl III), and was offensive line coach for the New Orleans Saints (1981-85) during the time I spoke and corresponded with his mother-in-law.
Another grandson Creekmore Wallace was the defense attorney of the Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh.
Mrs. Wallace described her parents and the family moving to Texas in her book.
The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1942) by Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace:
Page 35: “Due to the conditions in the state of Mississippi resulting from the Civil War, my father decided to move to Texas. There were no banks available and before the time of green-back money. My father carried a bag of gold around his waist, my mother wore an underskirt padded with twenty dollar gold pieces.”
Page 36: “The family boarded a Miss. River steamer and went to New Orleans. While in this City they were guests of the famous old St. Charles Hotel. By boat they crossed over to Indianola, Texas, and moved inland about forty miles to Lavaca County. Here my father leased a large plantation and planted it in corn and cotton. The crop was totally destroyed by a hail storm. The second crop was planted and, strange as it seems, destroyed in the same way. At that time Lavaca County was heavily timbered. Thousands of long-horned cattle roamed the woods and were worth at most nothing. My father invested the balance of his money in oxen, yoked them together and started back to the old home State. They headed south to cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans. A yellow fever epidemic was raging in the City. My father was taken seriously ill, however, not with yellow fever. He never knew what became of his cattle. Six months later a man drove up before our home. On a bed in the back of his wagon was my father. After recovering he moved our family into Hallettsville, the county seat. Everything was lost but faith and courage.
Under a live oak tree he set up a blacksmith shop. To this out-door beginning he later built several business houses, a saddlery shop and a large woodwork establishment where plows, wagons, buggies, hacks and coffins were made. Nearly everything was home-made.
In a small account book of my father’s for blacksmith work done in 1868 such names appear as General Baylor, Colonel Moss, General Dowling and numbers of other Confederate Army officers, who after the din of the battle field was over, had settled down to the peaceful pursuit of farming.
Page 37: “In 1869 my father was again building. This time a hotel and planted the yard in evergreens and shade trees.
My sister, Mrs. D.A. Brewster, visited this old home in 1913. The house was in good condition and the yard beautiful with shrubbery.
Salado, in Bell County, had one of the foremost colleges in the State. My oldest sister was there in school. We moved to this town in 1873 and bought an interesting old home. A Dr. Jones had improved the place. On a corner was a rock office where he kept his medicines and received his patients. My sister Alice married a lawyer, Frank M. Ray. He turned the doctor’s office into a court room.
After living here several years, our neighbor, Judge O.T. Tyler, made my father a good offer to settle on a section of unimproved land in Erath County. We moved in 1881. After several years of hard work and careful management this wilderness was changed into a good home. There is one thing I especially desire to mention in the improvement of this farm. South of the peach orchard, bordering on the creek, were several acres of low, level land. When my father and mother were old and the neighbors around thought their work in life about done, they planted this land in pecan and walnut trees. There is nothing like it in all the country. It is a living memorial to them.
My father was a Royal Arch Mason, having joined the Masonic fraternity before the Civil War.
Both father and mother were devout Christians, members of the Greens Creek Baptist Church. They are buried…
page 38: “ in the Greens Creek cemetery with a tall marble monument, beautifully inscribed to their memory.”
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