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Personal data W173 U. S. Rep. Alexander Stuart Wallace [OS-Rs 6x1zDNA RoseHlBu] 

• Also known as https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8067959/alexander-stuart-wallace.
• He was born on December 30, 1810 in York District, South Carolina.Source 1
• He died on June 27, 1893 in at home, York County, South Carolina, he was 82 years old.
• He is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, York, York County, South Carolina.
• A child of McCasland Wallace and Catherine Stewart
• This information was last updated on September 7, 2023.

Household of W173 U. S. Rep. Alexander Stuart Wallace [OS-Rs 6x1zDNA RoseHlBu]

He is married to Nancy Lee Ratchford.

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They got married on December 20, 1833 at York District, South Carolina, he was 22 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Infant daughter Wallace  1835-1835
2. Robert McCaslin Wallace  1837-1902 
3. Iantha Jane Wallace  1840-1900 
4. Mary Rebecca Wallace  1842-1903 
5. Nancy Ellen Wallace  1844-1920 
6. Margaret Catherine Wallace  1846-1922 
7. George David Wallace  1849-1890 
8. Frances Wallace  1851-1851

Notes about W173 U. S. Rep. Alexander Stuart Wallace [OS-Rs 6x1zDNA RoseHlBu]

TITLE: Wallace, Hon. Rep. Alexander Stuart of S.C.-------CALL NUMBER: LC-BH832- 29149 [P&P]-------------------REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04945 (digital file from original neg.)-------------------------------------RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.---------------------------------------------MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass, wet collodion.---------------CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1865 and 1880]NOTES:Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: AS Wallace, Ex MC S.C. 29149 [crossed out], 1109 [crossed out], 825 [crossed out], 1630.------------------Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). ==========================================- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/PPALL:@field(DOCID+@lit(brh2003002323/PP)) is the source for photo above and the details of it including lack of any copyright restriction and that it is owned by the U.S. Government. Copies there are reversed by using the wrong side of the negative as provable from original private family photos, primarily an earlier one of the younger Congressman seated in the well-known Matthew Brady chair. The photo used here was clearly three to five to more years later than the private one

TITLE: Wallace, Hon. Rep. Alexander Stuart of S.C.

CALL NUMBER: LC-BH832- 29149 [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04945 (digital file from original neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass, wet collodion.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1865 and 1880]

NOTES:

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve.

Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: AS Wallace, Ex MC S.C. 29149 [crossed out], 1109 [crossed out], 825 [crossed out], 1630.

Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Full photo varieties found at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/PPALL:@field(DOCID+@lit(brh2003002323/PP))

Copies there are reversed by using the wrong side of the negative as provable from original private family photos, primarily an earlier one of the younger Congressman seated in the well-known Matthew Brady chair. The photo used here was clearly three to five to more years later than the private one.Alexander Stuart Wallace was born on the farm of his parents McCasland and Catharine Stuart (or Stewart) Wallace in rural York District, South Carolina. His father McCasland was the youngest of seven children of Oliver Wallace and his wife thought to be possibly Jean Kincade, all seven of whom were born outside North America. McCasland was born on the voyage to America from their home in County Tyrone, Ireland on the ship Walworth, prior to its known arrival in Charles Town, royal colony of South Carolina [Charleston, South Carolina] on August 27, 1773. Little is known of Alex.'s mother Catharine Stuart/Stewart beyond her grave marker inscription and the name of her father: Alexander Stuart [or as correctly Alexander Stewart although this spelling was not adopted by our subject).

Prior to the war between the north and south, Alexander S. Wallace served as a Unionist S. C. State Representative, definitively opposing nullification and secession solutions, like many prior to 1860 living in the Piedmont area of the state and unlike the fire-breathers of Charleston and of John C. Calhoun sort.

After the war in 1868, due to his opposition to secession until after it had become a fait accompli, Alexander S. Wallace qualified as a candidate on the Republican ticket, as Unionist as before, for the 4th District of South Carolina and won seats in the next four congresses from 1869 through 1877.

In 1833 Nancy Lee Ratchford married Alexander Stuart Wallace, both being from Presbyterian families, by which marriage, two sons and six daughters were born, both sons and four daughters reaching adulthood and all marrying, with twenty-nine grandchildren resulting.

State representative, before and after the war, next a federal officeholder as Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Charleston, SC. and then a U. S. Congressman for eight more years, Congressman Wallace was a serious and moral man who persevered over discord and Ku Klux Klan and other attacks against his service with blacks in the post-war State Assembly, but none of this could be claimed to have been easy. His grave monument concludes "... .He filled these positions with marked ability and left to his family the proud heritage of an unsullied name. A good citizen, a consistent Christian, a friend of the poor, his deeds will not be forgotten."Name Prefix: U. S. Rep.
Alexander Stuart Wallace served as U.S. Congressman for York Co. District from 1869-1877.

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The following excerpt from a story printed June 7, 1992 in the York Observer column, "Nearby History," column by Louise Pettus is about the family of Capt. George D. Wallace (subject of John Mackintosh's article above). Alexander S. Wallace was Capt. George Wallace's father and Robert M., his older brother.

Alexander S. Wallace was born in 1810 in York District, the son of McCaslan Wallace who had been born on the Atlantic ocean in 1772.The Wallaces were immigrants from County Antrim, Ireland and, though late-comers, were part of the great Scots-Irish immigration that populated so much of York, Lancaster and Chester counties. McCaslan had two older brothers to die fighting the English in the American Revolution.

The Wallaces settled on Turkey Creek in York District. Alexander became a planter like his father. He married Nancy Ratchford in 1833 and they had 6 children,4 daughters and 2 sons.

In the 1850s Wallace served six years in the South Carolina legislature. As talk of secession increased, Wallace spoke vigorously against the folly of it all. Nevertheless, he was a slave-holder (the 1850 census showed him owning 4). When the war broke out, Wallace retired to his farm.

The oldest son, Robert M., born in 1837, graduated from Erskine College in 1858 and went to work as an apprentice lawyer for Melton & Melton of Yorkville. He was admitted to the bar in 1860 but never practiced. When the Civil War broke out, Robert Wallace joined Confederate forces, but unlike the typical enlistee, he did not join any of the local companies that were being formed. Instead, he went to Texas and enlisted as a private in Terry's Texas rangers.

Robert Wallace was in numerous battles and skirmishes in Tennessee and Kentucky, wounded twice, and taken prisoner by Federal forces in January 1864.

In 1865 Alexander S. Wallace was again elected to the South Carolina legislature and served about one year until he was appointed by the United States government as collector of internal revenue. He held that office until 1869 and resigned after his election to the U.S. Congress as a Republican in 1868. Robert M. Wallace, the ex-Confederate, was appointed to fill his father's vacancy. It was almost unheard of to have a Confederate appointed to a federal office. In 1872 Robert was appointed U.S. Marshall for the district of South Carolina and remained in that position until 1881.

YCGHS --MARCH 1995-- Page 2

Later, Robert M. Wallace moved to Sumter and became the vice-president of Sumter Cotton Mills. Next, he was president of the Sumter Electric Light Co. He died in 1902.. . .

Alexander S. Wallace died June 27, 1893. The lengthy inscription on his tombstone tells of his public service and concludes: "... .He filled these positions with marked ability and left to his family the proud heritage of an unsullied name. A good citizen, a consistent Christian, a friend of the poor, his deeds will not be forgotten."

Alexander Stuart Wallace served as U.S. Congressman for York Co. District from 1869-1877. he was strongly opposed to secessoin and retired to his farm when the Civil War began. he was again elected to the legislature in 1865. The next year he was appointed by Federal authorities as collector of internal revenue. After four years he was elected to the U. S. Congress as a Republican. he was reviled by the people of his native county for hisloyalty to the government of the United States, but heheld his course and did what he could to resolve the differences between the races.

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