genealogy part 2

After some time reading the genealogy, I finally began applying myself to a few mysteries that I'd carried around for years, the most pressing of which was the pig mystery. I'll get to it but first a few general comments about the genealogy.

It is labelled Descendants of Robert Wallace because that's what it mostly is. But it actually starts, at number one, with William Wallace of whom little is known. Robert is in the third generation along with his brother John, and those two I believe are the pig boys. First and second generation were back in Scotland and lost. In the colonies John went off to Ohio; they knew where he was, and knew when he died, but didn't have access to or write down his descendants. He was about eight years older than Robert. I can now see that he had a son and daughter and their descendants are findable and start right there in Ohio.

Robert married Margaret Hendrickson and had ten children in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. By the time he died everyone had all kinds of good things to say about him; he was a pillar of the community. And whoever collected the genealogy was clearly after his descendants as he had many and most of course ended up right there in Beaver County. Robert was born in 1796 and married in 1818 (?) so I would guess the pig incident happened, back in Scotland and then Ireland, in about 1808 or soon after. He would have to have been old enough to be dragged by his brother John over to Ireland, and from there to Pennsylvania, though we can guess he married soon after he arrived, and he may not have stayed in Ireland very long.

There's more. He may have actually served in the war (1812?) but I'll do my research and get back to you. To me he is one of the most important characters in the line because he was the ancestor of almost everyone on the document. A patriarch of Beaver County. The one who picked up, even if dragged by his brother, and came from Scotland to Pennsylvania, albeit indirectly.

I am still quizzical about the twins. Euphalia and Orpha. They seem to appear three times on the genealogy. Two different ones appear to be because both their parents were Wallaces, so they appear beneath each of their parents separately. A third time seems to be a repeat of one of the others and should be investigated so that I can make the genealogy free of redundancy. But it raises questions. Were their parents cousins? What came of them? My problem here is that I can't print, and because of that, I'm considering taking some time to fix the printer so I can at least have a working copy of the genealogy to do research off of. A possible project is updating the genealogy; after all, it goes only up to births in my generation, and several of us twelve cousins have died already, or become grandparents, or both, thus creating two or three more generations at least.

My parents' voice rings through the stuff I have on the Wallaces, my mom's in particular. They have some good anecdotes that sound like they are right out of their mouths. It all deserves to be written down somewhere even if it has to wait for a good story about Uncle Bones to tie it all together.

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