History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. p. 262.  [Rock Castle Precinct]

ALVIN G. WALLACE was born in Trigg County, April 28, 1861, and is a son of
James and Martha (Whithurst) Wallace, both natives of Tennessee, and of
English descent.  James Wallace was by trade a cabinet-maker, at which he
worked in connection with farming.  In 1856 he emigrated to Trigg County,
Ky., where he bought a farm on which he resided during the remainder of
his life.  He served some two years in the Confederate Army during the
late war.  He was a member of the Blue Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Joppa,
No. 167, in Lyon County.  Mr. and Mrs. Wallace were life-long member of
the Baptist Church.  Mr. W. [sic] died October 26, 1879, loved by all who
knew him.  Alvin G., our subject, has always lived on the farm which he
operates since the death of his father, and takes care of his only
sister--Mary C. and his widowed mother.  Mr. Wallace is twenty-three years
old, a man of good habits, enterprising, industrious, and on of the
promising young men of the county.

Wallace Whithurst
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