History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin, F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. p. 268. [Wallonia Precinct] ABITHAL WALLACE was born March 18, 1839, in Stewart County, Tenn. He is the eldest child of a family of ten born to James Wallace and Martha Whitehurst; the former was born in 1815, in Stewart County, Tenn. He died in 1880, aged sixty-three. The latter is the daughter of Joshua Whitehurst, who was born in Martin County, N. C., in 1776, and now a resident of Stewart County, Tenn., where he is enjoying a reasonable degree of health, at the advanced age of one hundred and eight years. Our subject came with his parents to Trigg County, in 1855. He assisted on their farm till [sic] the age of twenty-one, since which time he has been engaged at contracting and building. In 1860, he built a residence in Cadiz, now occupied by W. C. White. He owns a store room in Wallonia, and other property in the village. He in company with Maj. Bingham built several bridges in this county. From 1876 to 1882 he was engaged in merchandising in Wallonia. He now has an interest in a drug store in Princeton, Ky. Mr. Wallace enlisted in 1862, Company D, Col. Woodard's Second Regiment of Cavalry; served about nine months, after which the regiment was disbanded near Columbia, Tenn. He was married February 7, 1861, to Mary D. Cameron. She was born in this county; two sons bless this union--Alexander and James D. Wallace. Wallace Whitehurst White Cameron = Stewart-TN Martin-NC http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/trigg/wallace.a.txt