Elizabeth Wallace

ELIZABETH McKEE(7) (died , '18), married ,178-, JOHN WALLACE (born May 12, 1766, died October 1, 1843).

She arrived in the United States with husband, children and brother David (3) in midsummer, 1793. In '94 they came from Cumberland County, where they had passed the winter in the neighbor hood of friends, to Mr. Wallace's " Uncle Shaw's," " 16 miles from Fortpit," near McKeesport, and during their stay there Mr. Wallace saw the " whiskey insurrection " army. They settled in Allegheny County, midway between Pittsburg and Washington, Pa., where Mr. Wallace was for fifty years an elder of the Robinson's Run congregation. A fragment of a letter written by him to his father-in-law's family, and dated Cumberland County, Newton Township, August 17, 1793, is in possession of Mrs. J. K. Scott (128). (Mr Wallace was the son of William Wallace and Shaw. In '26 he married Catherine Patterson (born 1782), who survived him and died at Rix's Mills, O., February 28, '64.)

Children :—

• William (71),
• David (72),
• Elizabeth McKee 'Bettie’ (73),
• Nancy (74).

History of the Descendants of David McKee of Anahilt With a General Sketch of the Early McKee’s Prof. JAMES Y. McKee. PHILADELPHIA: JOSEPH D. McKee. 1892

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