Susan Arnold Elston Wallace
Born: December 25, 1830
Birthplace: Crawfordsville, Indiana
Father: Major Isaac Compton Elston 1794 – 1867
(Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Indiana)
Mother: Maria Eveline Akin 1805 – 1874
(Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Indiana)
Husband: Major General Lewis "Lew" Wallace 1827 – 1905
(Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Indiana)
Married: May 6, 1852
Children:
Henry Lane Wallace 1853 – 1926
(Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Indiana)
Education:
Attended Dr. Gibbon's Friends Boarding School
She studied literature, geometry and writing but preferred music.
She was noted to have played the guitar and Piano
Antebellum Events:
1832: Birth of her sister Mary Elston Braden
1836: Birth of her brother Colonel Isaac Compton Elston
1838: Birth of her sister Helen Laura Elston Blair
1844: Birth of her brother William Francis "Frank" Elston
1846: Birth of her sister Evelyn Lane Elston Smith
1848: Met her future husband at home of Henry Smith Lane.
At first her father disapproved of her dating Wallace, due to his trouble he was known to cause, but later he consented to the courtship.
1848: Death of her older sister Sylvia Ann Elston
1849: Death of her older brother James Akin Elston
1849: Accepted the Proposal of Marriage from Lewis Wallace.
1852: Married her husband on May 6th
1853: Birth of her son Henry Lane Wallace.
She remained her husband's companion and advisor
1858: One of her first Poem's "The Patter of Little Feet" appeared in Cincinnati Daily Gazette.
Civil War Life Events:
1861 – 1862: Her husband served as Brigadier General in Union Army.
1862 – 1865: Her husband Served as Major General in Union Army.
Postbellum Events:
1867: Death of her father Major Isaac Compton Elston
1874: Death of her mother Maria Eveline Akin Elston
1878 – 1881: First Lady of New Mexico Territory
1881 – 1885: Her husband served as U.S. Minister to Ottoman Empire
1883: Author of The Storied Sea
1884: Death of her brother William Francis "Frank" Elston
1887: Author of Ginerva; or, The Old Oak Chest, A Christmas Story
1888: Author of The Land of the Pueblos
1889: Death of her sister Evelyn Lane Elston Smith
1898: Author of Along the Bosphorus and other sketches
1898: Death of her sister Mary Elston Braden
1903: Author of The City of the King: What the Child Jesus saw and heard
1905 – 1907: Widow of Major General Lewis "Lew" Wallace
1905: Helped complete her husband's Memoirs.
1906: Death of her sister Helen Lauren Elston Blair.
Died: October 1, 1907
Place of Death: Crawfordsville, Indiana
Age at time of Death: 76 years old
Burial Place: Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Indiana
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