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Note: Joel, his wife Ester and their six children migrated from Blount County, Tenn. to Alabama where they lived on a flat boat until they made their first crop. They settled on a plantation at Sennica Springs, near Trinity in Morgan County, AL. The two story frame house was still standing in the mid-1900's The burial spot for Esther (Houston) Wallace was located directly behind the house and at this time was called Lile's Graveyard.
From Morgan Co., AL Records Vol. 105 - Wallace Cemetery in a family plot on a little hill just back of the Joel Wallace house above the big Senneca Springs about 3/4 mile south of Trinity, Morgan Co., AL. All other white people have been removed from this cemetery and some have been plowed under.
Joel was listed as one of the surviving children of Capt. Thomas Wallace when he died in 1830.
Captain in Indian Wars.
Morgan Co., 1850 Census, lived with son Thomas.
Joel had two younger brothers, Thomas and William and 3 sisters, Peggy the oldest, Betsy, and Ruth who never married. (see Mortality Schedule Texas 1860 p. 71)
>>>>>> Letter from Stella Lile, to Mrs. Arnecke dated Feb. 18, 1969 - Joel Wallace entered land near Trinity as early as 1818, adjoining the Lile place. He sold this 160.42 acres to William Austin in 1830, the abstract lists Rebecca as his 1st wife at this time.
The old house you mention near Seneca Springs was a two story frame house demolished about 15 or 20 years ago. There were always empty rooms for the grandchildern and other company.
Joel Wallace also entered a plot containing 16.3 acers in 1818 and sold to John A. Lile before the Civil War.
In Mr. Knox's book about Morgan Co., he mentions that Joel Wallace was asked to help view a road leading from McDonald's Ferry to the county line toward Courtland. This was in 1819. <<<<<<
Morgan Co. 1850 Census shows Joel lived with son Thomas
Per phone call from Stella Reeder to Connie Ritchie on Dec. 7, 1996 - Joel is buried at Ester's feet.
>>>>>> The following information was given to Sue Arnecke in 1969 or 1970, the writer of the letter was not identified.
Joel Wallace, eldest child of Capt. Thomas and Rebecca Wallace, born on March 13, 1771. He married Esther Houston on a Sunday, 1794 in Ft. Craig, Maryville, TN. She was born in Rockridge Co., VA 1766, daughter of John Houston and Sarah Todd Houston who migrated from Rockridge Co., VA to Blount Co., TN.
In 1810 Joel Wallace, his wife Esther and their six children migrated from Blount Co., TN to AL where they lived on a flat boat until they made their first crop. They settled on a plantation at Sennica Springs, near Trinity, Morgan Co., AL where their house still stands (at this writing). It is a two story frame house with a porch across the front. The burial spot is now called Lile's Graveyard and is located directly behind the house.
Of children of Joel Wallace by first wife Esther Houston Wallace, one was William Stephenson Wallace who was the writer's great grandfather. William Stephenson Wallace was half brother of James Jasper Wallace who married Elizabeth Hamilton.
After the death of Esther Houston Wallace, Joel Wallace married a widow by the name of Rebecca Sulick Jones. Sallie Ann Wallace married Thomas E. Peacock said Rebecca Sulick Jones' maiden name was Wall, and she married 1st a Sulick, and 2nd a Jones. Joel and his 2nd wife Rebecca Wall Sulick Jones Wallace, had James Jasper Wallace, and Milton Monroe Wallace.
Of these two sons, James Jasper was born in AL Feb. 12, 1830 and died Feb. 13, 1905 at Denton TX. He married 1st Elizabeth Hamilton about 1850 and soon afterwards migrated to TX and settled in Wise Co. About 1870 they moved to Denton TX. James Jasper and Elizabeth Hamilton Wallace had Milton Monroe who married Tabitha Blanton. Milton Monroe and Tabitha Blanton Wallace had a son named James Jasper Wallace who married Ida Calhoun of Chico, Wise Co., TX. James Jasper and Ida Calhoun Wallace had sons Escar and Maxey Wallace.
James Jasper's 2nd wife, Sallie Sanlin, and he had no children.
James Jasper's 3rd wife, Maude Jackson and they had Herbert, Walter, and Laura.
This writer went to elementary school with Maxie Wallace at Chico, Wise Co., TX. I have a very faint memory of him at my age of 77. He was at one time Mayor of Snyder, OK, where he moved from Chico, TX. <<<<<<<<<
Letter dated Feb. 7, 1969 from John H. Knox to Sue Arnecke - "in the 1830 census, and all of them are spelt "Wallis", including your Joel Wallace, who was head of a family of three".
Letter from Mabel Mount Atkinson to Mrs. Peacock dated July 11, 1944 - "My mother was also related to the Wallace's, her father was John Rufus Love, who had two sisters who married sons of Joel Hall Wallace (son of Joel and Esther Houston Wallace).
Per "Old Land Records of Morgan County Alabama" c. 1981, p. 195 - Joel Wallace, Asse. - Township 5 South - Range 5 West - Huntsville Meridian - Part of Section Northwest 1/4 - Acres 160.58 3/4 - MB: Charles Anderson - 15 July 1818 # of Certificate of Warrant 393.
p. 197 - Joel Wallace - Township 5 South - Range 5 West - Huntsvill Meridian - Part of Section Northeast 1/4 - Acres 160.42 - MB: Wallace & Austin - 15 July 1818 # of Certificate of Warrant 394.
Per Morgan Co. Cemetery Records - Rebecca J. Wallace (Wife of Joel Wallace, a shoemaker) died April 5, 1846, 51 years old).
Per Morgan Co. Cemetery Records - Ester Wallace (Wife of Joel Wallace, a stonemaker) died Aug. 28, 1826 60 years old).
From Ancestor Index of AL - Wallace, Joel (birth) 1771 (pl) NC (co) 065 (married) 1 C1794 (pl) TN (spouse name) Esther Houston (code) 60395 (married) 2 1828 (pl) AL (spouse name) Mrs Rebecca Wall Sullick Jones
DAR application of Irene Wallace Hughes (#550178) shows Joel died Dec. 13, 1857
>>>>>>>>>>>> Writings from Camille Sheilds Wallace - Joel Wallace was Justice of the Peace in Blount Co., TN, 1790 and an ensign in the Washington County Militia in 1795. He served on the Grand Jury at almost every term of Court. For many years he was in charge of Black's Fort, an old Indian block house, with several men under him. Until 1792, this block house was located in what was then Knox Co. territory, but at that time became Blount Co. Black's Fort was named for Uriah Black, a pioneer settler in Tennessee, and was surrounded by land belonging to the Wallace Families.
James Jasper Wallace stated that Joel had cousins named John, Jesse, and Matthew Wallace and that Matthew had no children.
In 1808 Joel Wallace sold land on the waters of Crooked Creek to Jesse Wallace of Sevier County, this land adjoined that of Abraham Wallace, Pulaske Wallace, and H. Thomas. It is probable that Jesse Wallace was the son of William Wallace (1737-1799).
Joel, his wife Ester and their six children migrated from Blount County, Tenn. to Alabama where they lived on a flat boat until they made their first crop. They settled on a plantation at Sennica Springs, near Trinity in Morgan County, Ala. The two story frame house was still standingin the mid-1900's The burial spot for Esther (Houston) Wallace was located directly behind the house and at this time was called Lile's Graveyard.
From "History of Blount County Tennessee" by Inez E. Burns, 1957, p 21 - 30: "list of the Blount County Stations and their strength on December 22, 1792: Black's Station - Joel Wallace, Ensign; Men - four". On July 2, 1793 - "six Indians fired on Ensign Joel Wallace at the head of Pistol Creek. He was uninjured except for cuts from a shattered knife handle". "On August 2nd, 1795, the following appointments were made for Blount County: ... Samuel Houston.... Joel Wallace, all Ensigns ..... Clerk: William Wallace, ... Justices of the Peace: William Wallace, Samuel Houston, Mathew Wallace".
Occupation = Cooper (barrel maker)??? source
From Rebecca Price Emmett (horsemom@@richmond.infi.net) 6 Aug 1997 -- "She was the ninth and last child of John Houston (one of the original 1735 immigrants). They were married in a fort, on the spot where Maryville, Blount Co., Tenn., now stands. They resided in Blount County until 1810 when they moved to the Southwest where they both died. She was about sixty-three years of age at her death, and died before her husband. Her son, Jno. H. Wallace, writes - 'She died enjoying a full confidence of her acceptance through the Redeemer. I speak assuredly, since I was with her day and night for six weeks before her departure. She selected a text from which she desired her funeral to be preached. My father, Joel Wallace, died at about eighty years of age. From my knowledge of him in early life I have satisfactory evidence to believe he was a true Christian.' After the death of his first wife, he married a second time, but the name of this wife we have never heard. The children were: Sarah, Thos. , Jno. Houston, Wm. Steph'n, Jessie Blackburn, Joel Hall."
Have document from County of Morgan, State of Alabama, Administrator of Rebecca Wallace deceased. It is dated 9 March 1854. Says that Thomas is 58 years old which would make his birth date ca. 1796. Also says that Joel died 17 December 1853 in Morgan Co.
Index to Records of Real Estate Conveyances - Morgan Co., AL -- Joel & Rebecca J. Wallace Grantors to Jesse B & Joel H. Wallace, Jr., Mar 31, 1830, Recorded, book B, p. 236
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