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Children:
  1. John Wallace: Birth: 30 JUL 1837 in Shade Twp, Somerset County, PA. Death: 6 MAR 1872 in Shade Twp Somerset County, PA


Notes
a. RecordIdNumber:   MH:N588
Note:   I have no direct evidence that Susannah Moses was the biological mother of John Wallace. There is no written record of a marriage of Susannah to anyone surnamed Wallace. (The Stoystown Lutheran Church of Somerset County PA communion & confirmation records for the 1840s lists Susannah MOSES as taking communion on 4/17/1841. Her father’s 1845 will refers to her as a Moses, while other daughters are called by their married names. Notes (handwritten) in a book called Moses Family of Pennsylvania written by Salinda Moses ( -1957 claims she married a Wallace, but there is no supporting evidence and the two records mentioned above of the use of her maiden name well after John's birth, makes this seem unlikely). It is possible that John was an out of wedlock child. There is no doubt that Susannah cared from John from an early age. Census records from 1840 thru 1870 show him living with Susannah, even after her marriage to a Jacob Hellman. At his death in 1872 he was living on his own land. I have one family source that states the Wallace's were cousins of the Moses', implying that John's care was given over to them as a family obligation, but there is no supporting evidence for this claim either.
b. RecordIdNumber:   MH:N587
Note:   Buried under name "Helman" with husband Jacob.


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