The name of the lady who I couldn't remember is Elizabeth C. Wallace, unmarried sister of J.D. Wallace on who's homestead the reunions would be held from 1912 until the last reunion in 1929.
Frank James died in 1915. His wife, Anne Ralston James was 10 years younger than Frank and she died in 1944.
her picture is here. She could be the lady standing next to Frank in the original post, but is the lady standing next to Frank 10 years younger?
Elizabeth Wallace was born appox. 1844, and Frank James was born in 1843, and it appears to me that Frank and the
The women in the picture next to Frank appears to be approximately the same age. Below is a picture of the 1920 reunion, which would have been held at the Wallace Grove residence, so I assume the lady in the background is Elizabeth Wallace, but does she look like the woman standing next to Frank? I can't tell.
Below is the notice of the death of Elizabeth Wallace.
Either September or November 9, 1938 Intercity News - Kansas City, MO area
Funeral Today For Elizabeth Wallace
Services Will Be Held At the Home 8607 Wilson Road at 2 O'clock
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon for Miss
Elizabeth Cynthia Wallace, 94, at the home, 8607 Wallace.
Miss Wallace, known to her many friends as "Aunt E" died Tuesday at
her home in what is known as Wallace Grove. She had been an invalid for
twenty years, and for the past fourteen years had been blind.
She was born in Jackson county, the daughter of John C. and Nellie
Duncan Wallace who came to Jackson county and settled on a huge farm which
lay west of Blue Ridge, between Van Horn and old Independence road. The
home in which Miss Wallace died and where she lived with a brother, J.D.
Wallace, and Mrs. Wallace, was a part of the old homestead.
The only time Miss Wallace left the county was during the Civil war
when her father, a fiery Southerner, was compelled to take his family
across the Missouri river into Clay county.
Miss Wallace never reconciled herself to the victory of the Union
army. Her home remained a rallying point after the war for Confederates
and Confederate sympathizers. In the grove around the old homestead annual
Quantrill reunions were held annually in August. The last such gathering
of men who followed the guerilla chieftain in the Civil War was held at the
home in 1929.
For many years, before the Inter-City district developed, the big 9-
room home of the Wallaces was a landmark between Kansas City and
Independence. As both cities encroached upon the farm it dwindled to a
grove and in the last twenty-five years even the grove was platted and the
lots leased for the erection of cottages. The settlement has been known
both as "Wallace Grove" and "The Hill" for many years.
Miss Wallace continued to live in the old home, treasuring relics of
Civil war days and nursing a persistent resentment against the North. She
never married after her fiancee was killed in the Civil war.
Miss Wallace kept abreast of the times despite the fact she had to
remain in her bedroom, either in a rocker or her bed. By means of her
radio and visits from friends, she maintained an active interest in present
day affairs, and her mind was keen and alert.
Besides J.D. Wallace, she is survived by another brother, M.F.
Wallace, Lufkin, Tex.