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Note: Second wife, Sister of Gen. Sam Houston
According to "Blount County Tennessee Cemetary Records, Little, 1980", Mary Houston was wife of both Gen. William Wallace & Col. Matthew Wallace; sister of Gen Sam Houston.
From Rebecca Price Emmett (horsemom@@richmond.infi.net), 6 Aug 1997 -- "Married 1st Col. Matthew Wallace by whom she is said to have had one son "the young Wallace who suffered so severely in the mountains of Virginia during the war, the details of which are said to have been enough to sicken the heart of the most insensible." What they were has never been communicated to the writer. After the death of her first husband, she married Gen. William Wallace (a nephew of Matthew). This marriage proved a very unhappy one. He had a consideralbe familiy; she had no children of her own to care for, but considerable property. Her troubles proved too great to be borne. Her reason succumbed and she died in the insane asylum. As a woman, she was as noble in personal appearance as her brtoher Sam was as a man. With her first husband she lived a very happy life."
Settled in Cahaba Valley, AL where he died???
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