Susan Arnold Wallace

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Susan Arnold Wallace (Elston)

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Birthplace: Crawfordsville Montgomery County Indiana
Death: 1907 (76-77)
Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA
Place of Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery Crawfordsville Montgomery County Indiana
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Daughter of Maj Isaac Compton Elston and Maria Eveline Elston
Wife of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace (USA), 11th Terr. Gov. of New Mexico
Mother of Henry Lane Wallace
Sister of Mary Braden; Helen Laura Blair; Evelyn Lane Smith and Joanna Maria Lane

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About Susan Arnold Wallace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wallace

Susan Arnold Elston Wallace (December 25, 1830 – October 1, 1907) was an American author and poet from Crawfordsville, Indiana. In addition to writing travel articles for several American magazines and newspapers, Wallace published six books, five of which contain collected essays from her travels in the New Mexico Territory, Europe, and the Middle East in the 1880s: The Land of the Pueblos (1888), The Storied Sea (1883), The Repose in Egypt: A Medley (1888), Along the Bosphorus, and Other Sketches (1898), and The City of the King: What the Child Jesus Saw and Heard (1903). She was also the wife of Lew Wallace, a lawyer, American Civil War general, politician, author and diplomat. Susan completed the manuscript of Lew Wallace's two-volume autobiography following his death in 1905, with the assistance of Mary Hannah Krout, another Crawfordsville author. Wallace died in Crawfordsville in 1907.

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Susan Arnold Wallace's Timeline

1830
1830
Crawfordsville Montgomery County Indiana
1853
February 1853
IN
1907
1907
Age 77
Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA
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Oak Hill Cemetery Crawfordsville Montgomery County Indiana