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Wallace, is Dead

On Wednesday evening at 5:50 Mrs. Ella Lindsey Wallace, widow of A. T. J. Wallace and mother of a prominent family of Laurel citizens, died at her home on Sixth avenue. She was 83, and the last of a group of twelve children, sons and daughters of the late Martha Jane Loughridge Lindsey and Sam Lindsey.

She was born Eloise Lindsey, and a member of a group that lived at Old Claiborne, near Paulding, in Jasper County. When the Southern Railroad was built, that group moved to Sandersville, and it was there that Mr. & Mrs. Wallace were married in 1895. Mr. Wallace worked for the T. B. Bonner Company, but in 1898, he came to Laurel and established the Wallace Drug Company. Two years later he moved his family here to make their home.

Of five children born to the couple, four survive their mother. Mr. Wallace died ten years ago this October. The survivors are Lew and Howard Wallace, prominent druggists of this city, Mr. Thos. E. Hand (Eloise) of Houston, Tex., and Miss Nellie Wallace of this city. Also surviving are eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

The story of her life is a record of devotion to home, husband and children. Her garden, throughout her life, was a major interest, and remained so to the last. She was an ardent member of Nahoula Daughters of the American Revolution.

Mrs. Wallace was the first young woman from Jones County to attend college. From Sandersville, before her marriage, she went to Columbus to the I. I. and C. -- now MSCW -- and then taught several years in Sandersville before her marriage.

She was a devoted member of the First Baptist Church in Laurel. For many years the Wallaces and the Rev. L. G. Gates and his wife and family lived next door neighbors on Sixth Avenue. The two family groups worked hand in hand for the betterment of the church and the community, and Mrs. Wallace extended her work into civic efforts, outside the limits of her church. It is a source of regret to the Wallace family that their old friend, Dr. Gates, will be prevented by ill health, from assisting the Rev. T. R. McKibbens in the funeral services.

[Reprinted from the "Laurel Leader-Call", Thursday, September 6, 1951.]

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