James
Danford
"J.D."
Wallace
Born in Georgia, United States
Son of Josiah Henry Wallace
and Irena (Kidd) Wallace
Brother of
Daniel Wesley Wallace, Eleanor Wallace, Isham Wallace, Epinetus Wallace and William T Wallace
Husband of
Sebby (Martin) Wallace
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Martha Ann Elizabeth (O'Quinn) Wallace
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 96
in Mississippi, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Apr 2020
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Biography
My Aunt Cherry Sue Wallace recalls a story of J.D. Wallace losing one of his legs in the Ponchatoula train wreck on February 27, 1862. J.D. Wallace was a private in Company H "Dahlgren Rifles" of the 7th Mississippi Company. In this train wreck, a southbound lumber train collided with a northbound troop train carrying men of Col. Edmond J. Goode's 7th Mississippi Infantry in route to joining the Confederate army in Tennessee. 29 soldiers were killed and another 17 injured. It was widely believed that the lumber trainmen were Northern men and in sympathy with the Union and the wreck was prearranged for the purpose of killing Southern Soldiers (was never proved). Most of the losses were in Company H and K. The story goes that after JD was discharged from the Army, he made a leg for himself out of wood and strapped it on using his belt and was able to walk and continue being a farmer. His brother, Private Epinetus Wallace, was enlisted in the same company and died of injuries received in the train wreck at a hospital in New Orleans.
Buried at Union Baptist Church Cemetery at Lincoln County, Mississippi.
Sources
- Year: 1850; Census Place: Police District 3, Pike, Mississippi; Roll: 380; Page: 26B
- Year: 1900; Census Place: Beat 3, Lawrence, Mississippi; Page: 16; Enumeration District: 0067; FHL microfilm: 1240815
- Year: 1910; Census Place: Beat 3, Lincoln, Mississippi; Roll: T624_749; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 0088; FHL microfilm: 1374762
- Year: 1920; Census Place: Ritchie, Lincoln, Mississippi; Roll: T625_885; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 95
- Ancestry.com. Official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57850044
- 7th Mississippi roll calls from Files of William Hadskey at the Franklin County Public Library in Meadville, MS. http://msgw.org/library/frank-7thmiss.htm
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