Wallace.Samuel.B.1811.Woodford.BIOS Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Woodford Co. SAMUEL B. WALLACE was born in Beaufort District, S. C., March 9, 1811, and is the second son of Samuel McDowell Wallace, a native of Kentucky, and Miss Annie Mauer, of Beaufort, S. C. His paternal grandfather, Judge Caleb Wallace, was born in Virginia in 1742, and educated at Princeton College, in New Jersey. He immigrated to Kentucky in 1785, and was appointed judge of the appellate court in 1785, which office he filled until about 1805. He owned a very large track of land in Woodford County, near where Midway now stands, and died in 1814. Samuel McD. Wallace was the eldest son, and was his father's executor. About the year 1804, his health failing, he went to Beaufort, S. C., and there married his first wife, Miss Mauer, in that year. There he engaged in planting, and whilst living in that district, two sons were born, viz.: Caleb, February 22, 1806, and Samuel Baker, March 9, 1811. In 1814 Mrs. Wallace died and he returned to Kentucky. Shortly afterward he was married to Mrs. Payne, a widow of Kentucky, who died in 1816. He was next married (in 1817) to Miss Matilda Lee, of Woodford County, who was a sister of the first wife of Hon. John J. Crittenden. Samuel B. Wallace, when three years of age, was brought from South Carolina to Kentucky by his father, his mother having died. He entered Transylvania University at the age of eighteen and remained a year, when he returned to South Carolina. There he was married November 23, 1831, to Miss Anna M. Taylor, of Beaufort District. In 1847 he returned to Kentucky and engaged in farming, which he has pursued all his life. Mrs. Wallace died March 15, 1874, the mother of six children still living: Florence, Eugene, Edward, Edward M., Robert, Andrew and Annie M. Besides these, they lost three, viz.: William, who was born September 11, 1832, and died in South Carolina, September 11, 1840; Morgan, born January 1, 1841, died in 1842; and Emma, born January 7, 1856, died October 31, 1876. The eldest daughter, Florence, is married to Rev. William H. Whitsett, of Tennessee, now professor in the Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Edward M. married Miss Lucy Graddy, daughter of William H. Graddy, Esq., of Woodford County; Robert married Miss Maggie Alford of the same county. Mr. Wallace has now been president of the board of directors of the Midway and Versailles Turnpike Road Company for thirty years. His farm is beautifully situated on this road, and contains 300 acres. Submitted by: WRFC71A@prodigy.com (MRS BEULAH A FRANKS) Date: Mon, 7 Jul