THE WALLACE FAMILY.
This family is famous in the annals both of Scotland and Ireland. We find Rev. Jas. Wallace, pastor Presbyterian Church Urney, Co. Donegal 1654-74, and James Wallace, elder in Donaughmore, Co., Donegal, 1672-1700.
James Wallace, doubtless of the Donegal family, settled in Augusta county 1748; mar. Elizabeth daughter of John Campbell and Elizabeth Walker, He died 1780. It seems that he had but one son, viz
William Wallace, who m. Jane, dau. or John Hunter and who died intestate, 1779. Five children viz:
James, William, Samuel, Frances and Mary.
Samuel, m. May 24, 1794, by Rev. John Brown, Mary, dau. of Robert Tate and Margaret McClung. Six children,
1. Eleanor, m. June 13, 1839, Samuel Withrow.
2. Jane, m. Thos. Webb.
3. William, m. Mary Shields. Issue:
(1) John Samuel, b. Nov. 14, 1859, d. s.
(2) Francis Robert, b. Jan. 21, 1852; m. Dolly Shields. Three children, viz. Alexander, married and lives in Kentucky. William Allen, m. Mary Tate Gilkeson; Elizabeth.
(3) Elizabeth, m. James McFarland of Staunton, Va. Parents of Frank Patterson and Wallace McFarland.
4. Elizabeth, m. Jan. 27, 1824, Archibald McClung.
5. Mariah, m. Dec. 29, 1825, Benjamin McClung.
6. Robert Tate, m. Jan. 26, 1832, Caroline Humphreys. Five children.
(1) Margaret, b. March 11, 1833, m. Benjamin McClung
(2) Mary Tate, b. Sept. 27, 1834, m. John P. McCiure. A grand-daughter Mary Margaret, dau. of John Marshall McClure and Mary Scott Storey, was b. July 21, 1914.
(3) Eleanor Amanda, b. 1837, d. s.
(4) Cornelia, b. Feb. 10, 1839, m. Jas. B. Smith. Parents of Ella, wife of Chas. D. McClure, and Mrs. William F. Gilkeson, and others.
(5) Jas. William, b. June 20, 1844, m. 1st, Ophelia Willson. 2nd, Carrie Gilkeson. Three children by his first wife.
a. Clarence Willson, b. 1871, Chattanoogo, Tenn.
b. Dr. Harry M. Wallace, b. 1873. Greenville, Va., m. Lucy Baker of Staunton. Two children.
c. Robert Tate, b. 1881. Graduate W. and L. U., Student Union Theo. Seminary,
