Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Wallace family

Last year I realized that George Selden Wallace who was the author of several excellent books on the history of Huntington, WV (where I live) is descended from the Wallace family that accompanied William Woods and George McNeely and their families on the move from Pennsylvania to what is now Albemarle County, Virginia after 1732 and before 1736.  And then I realized that George Selden Wallace had written a book about his Wallace family and that the book was available in the special collections at the downtown Cabell County library.  

Michael Woods' sister, Elizabeth had married Peter Wallace in Ireland.  It is this family that accompanied Michael Woods and the McNeely family down the great wagon road.  I think that Peter was deceased.  But I need to double check this.

I took some photos of some of the pages of George Selden Wallace's book and will put them here:




There follows several pages of later descendants, but there did not seem to be more clues in this book for our McNeely family.  Actually I just found another page.  I will go back and look at this book one more time.




 

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