Guthrie Family Group 5 – Branch F
Louisa Jane Guthrie 1833KY-1919CA and William Ward Wallace
of Kentucky, Missouri, and California, USA

LOUISA JANE GUTHRIE
Parents: John ‘Jack’ Guthrie 1807KY – 1870CA and Fairvilla Riddell 1808MD-1868CA
Birth: 15 June 1833
Birth Location: Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA
Marriage: 7 Nov 1850 in Independence, Macon, Missouri, USA to William Ward Wallace
Wallace Children: Yes
Death: 23 June 1919
Death Location: Williams, Colusa, California, USA
Burial: Williams Cemetery, Williams, Colusa, California, USA

WILLIAM WARD WALLACE
Parents: Thomas Wallace (1777-1858) and Mary Jane Percy (1785-1874) – per Find-a-Grave (unverified)
Birth: 19 June 1819
Birth Location: Kentucky, USA
Occupation:
Military Service:
Death: 29 September 1902 (aged 83)
Death Location: Williams, Colusa, California, USA
Burial: Williams Cemetery, Williams, Colusa, California, USA

NOTES:

Louisa Jane Guthrie was born in Kentucky on 15 Jun 1833. The family had moved to Missouri by 1850 when she married William Ward Wallace on the 7th of November that year. He was a farmer. Not long afterward, her father, Jack Guthrie, who had gone to California with her brother Wash during the gold rush to set up their blacksmith business, returned to bring the rest of the family back to California. Louisa and her husband went with them and initially settled in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, later resided in Monterey County, and finally in Colusa County, California. They raised a family of 3 sons and 3 daughters. William died in Williams, Colusa County in 1902, and Louisa Jane in 1919.

WALLACE CHILDREN: 6
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie and Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

CHILD 1: MARGARET ANNA WALLACE aka ‘MAGGIE’
Born: 1851 MO – Died: 3 Nov 1930 CA
Spouse: Mahlon Parker Hildreth
Hildreth Children: 10

Daughter Maggie was born while the family was in Independence, Missouri, a staging ground for westward migration. It was the starting point of three of America’s great Westward Trails: The Santa Fe Trail, The California Trail, and the Oregon Trail. The Wallace family headed to California.

At the age of 19 years old on 18 Sep 1870, Maggie married Mahlon Parker Hildreth (1848-1929) in Monterrey, California. Her husband was a farmer. They made their home in Colusa County, California where their family grew to number ten children: Ida, William, Lillie, Nolan, Anna, Amos, Fred, Susan, Ruby, and Edward. They moved to Shasta County about 1905 where they remained. Mahlon died in February of 1929, and Maggie the following year on 3 November 1930.

“SHASTA PIONEER IS BURIED in WILLIAMS”
Williams (Colusa Co.), Nov. 7. (1930). The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Wallace Hildreth, who died Tuesday at her home in Old Shasta, was held from the Williams Methodist Church yesterday, with Rev. M.H. Greenlea officiating. Interment was made in the Williams Cemetery. She was the mother of ten children, three of whom are living. They are William and Fred Hildreth of Reading, and Mrs. Roy Connelly, also of Reading. She also leaves four brothers and one sister, Fred Wallace of Nevada; John, Benjamin, and Theodore Wallace, and Mrs Elisabeth Hildreth, all of Williams. Seven of her children are buried in the Williams cemetery. Mrs Hildreth left Williams over twenty-five years ago and moved with her husband and family to Trinity Center. (Newspapers.com)

Hildreth Children: 10
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Ida Rachel HIldreth: 22 Jul 1871 CA-15 Sep 1924 CA m.(1891) William Henry Rippin +children
2.) William Parker Hildreth: 23 Apr 1873 CA – 13 Apr 1950 CA m. (1906) Sadie Burner +chidren
3.) Lillie Emma Hildreth: 9 Aug 1877CA – 10 Feb 1885 CA – died at 7 years of age.
4.) Nolan Lee Hildreth: 11 Sep 1879CA – 22 Jan 1926 CA – unmarried
5.) Anna Louise Hildreth: Abt. 1879 CA – 16 Jun 1884 CA – died at about 5 years of age
6.) Amos Hildreth: 12 Feb 1882 CA – 19 Mar 1882 – died during infancy
7.) Frederick Cleveland Hildreth: 6 Jun 1884 CA – 25 Oct 1908 CA m. Myrtle Ann Pickens +children
8.) Susan Frances Hildreth: 10 Oct 1886CA – 22 Oct 1973CA m(1908) Roy Christopher Connelly +children
9.) Ruby Ellen Hildreth: 13 Nov 1888 CA – 2 Aug 1905 CA – died at 16 years of age
10.) Edward Hildreth: 21 Apr 1891 – 14 Jan 1892 CA – died during infancy

CHILD 2: JOHN WILLIAM WALLACE
Born: 27 September 1852 CA – Died: 9 December 1941 CA
Spouse: Eleanor Marie O’Brien aka “Nellie”
Williams Children: 11

Williams Farmer 12/12/1941-

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JOHN WALLACE HELD THURSDAY

At two o’clock yesterday afternoon, funeral services were held for John William Wallace, 88 highly respected pioneer resident of Williams, who passed away quietly late Tuesday afternoon at the home of his daughter Mrs. Catherine Gray, with whom he made his home. 

A native of California, Mr. Wallace was born in Napa on September 27, 1873. He married on Feb. 5^th to Miss Nellie O’Brian of Colusa, who passed away in Williams on Sept. 12, 1925. Eleven children were born to that union, eight of whom survive.

A resident of Williams for 68 years, Mr. Wallace was well and favorably known throughout the county. Devoted to his large family, he was a good provider, a man of integrity and honor with a genial and kindly nature and a delightful sense of humor. He had many friends who will miss ready smile and wit. The number of friends attending the last rites and the many beautiful floral offerings testify to the esteem in which he was held in this vicinity.

Wallace Children: 11
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) William Franklin Wallace: 8 Jan 1882CA-31 Mar 1972CA m.1906 Tina Dorotha Ochs +children
2.) Frank Wallace: About 1883 – Bef 1900 [no info]
3.) John William Wallace: 12 Jun 1884 CA – 29 Apr 1967 m. Elsie Baughman -no children
4.) Annie Louisa Wallace: 4 Sep 1885 CA – 3 Jun 1910 CA – unmarried – typhoid fever
5.) Grover Cleveland Wallace: 2 Jun 1889 CA – 11 Nov 1961 CA – unmarried
6.) Malion Parker Wallace: 17 Sep 1891 CA – 13 Nov 1975 CA m. Cleo F Allen +children
7.) William Ward Wallace: 3 Aug 1893 CA – 8 Apr 1976 CA – unmarried
8.) Irene Josephine Wallace: 11 Jan 1895 CA – 5 Jan 1979 m. Warren Elston Tallman +children
9.) Louis L H Wallace: 11 Nov 1896 CA – 1 May 1919
10.) Cathrine Cecelia Wallace: 15 Sep 1896 CA-8 Apr 1959 CA m. Lyle Douglas Gray +children
11.) Nellie J Wallace: 14 Mar 1900 CA – 17 Aug 1970 CA m. Earl George Sanders +child

CHILD 3: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WALLACE
Born: 20 September 1856 CA – Died: 28 July 1933 CA
Marital Status: Unmarried / Single
Wallace Children: None

Benjamin Franklin Wallace worked on the Oral Thomas ranch in Glenn Valley at the time of his death in 1933. He was a resident of the area for thirty years. A heat wave hit the Colusa area, which claimed Benjamin as its second victim within a 2 week period.

Wallace Children: None
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Descendants

CHILD 4: MARY ‘ELIZA’ JANE WALLACE
Born: 17 May 1860 CA – 11 January 1955 CA
Spouse: William McCarty Hildreth
Hildreth Children: 5

Eliza was born in Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara County, California on 17 May 1860. She married before 1882 to William Hildreth. They had 5 children together. He died between 1891 and 1900, for during the 1900 census, Eliza is listed as being a widow. She worked as a laundress and nurse. She died 11 Jan 1955 in Colusa, California.

Hildreth Children: 5
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Myrtle Amanda Hildreth: 16 Feb 1882 CA – 14 May 1953 CA m.1901 Gordon Nordyke +children
2.) Annie Bell Hildreth: 9 Jun 1884 CA – 13 Nov 1979 CA m. Stephen Barrow Minor +children
3.) Elmer Franklin Hildreth: 4 Nov 1886 CA – 22 Oct 1973 CA – unmarried
4.) Theodore HIldreth: 7 Apr 1889 CA – 22 Apr 1961 CA m/sep. Beulah Genevieve Travis +children
5.) Mary Ermina Hildreth: 25 Sep 1891 CA – 6 Aug 1975 CA m1.(1909) William Washington Gassaway +child; m2.1919 Lewis Alexander Manor +children

CHILD 5: FRED DESHIELDS WALLACE
Born: 21 July 1865 CA – Died: 23 December 1950 CA
Spouse: Dora L. Kattelmann
Wallace Children: 1

Pioneer Rancher of Nevada Passes
“News of the death of Fred Wallace, pioneer Nevada rancher and mining man, in San Lorenzo, Calif., on Sunday was received here by his niece, Mrs William S Gardner of Reno. He was 85. As a prospector for an eastern mining company, Mr Wallace moved to Hawthorne in 1907. He later made several copper and quicksilver discoveries, and during the Lucky Boy mining camp days, he operated a club. At one time he homesteaded a ranch near Hawthorne, and it is upon that land that the main buildings of the Hawthorne naval ammunition depot are now located. Mr Wallace was born in Santa Rosa, Calif. He had made his home in San Lorenzo with his daughter, Mrs Frank Rourke, for the last five years. Funeral services were held Monday at Williams, Calif., where the Wallace family lived for many years. (The Reno Gazette-Journal, Tuesday, December 26, 1950)

Wallace Children: 1
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Ella Louise Wallace: 21/22 June 1910 NV – 10 Sep 1994NV m. Frank Paul Rourke

CHILD 6: THEODORE PARKER WALLACE
Born: 18 December 1869 CA – Died: 27 February 1961
Marital Status: Unmarried / Single
Wallace Children: None

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