Wallace M. McPeak

Male 1842 - 1861  (19 years)


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  • Name Wallace M. McPeak 
    Birth 24 Apr 1842  (White County) Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Military CSA Soldier 
    Death 30 Aug 1861  Huntersville, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Died during the War of a fever...Joe L. McPeak
    Burial Simrell Cemetery, White County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I15510  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 20 Nov 2015 

    Father *UNKNOWN* 
    Mother Mary Jane "Polly" McPeak,   b. 0___ 1825, White County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1890, Walling, White County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 65 years) 
    Residence (Family) 0___ 1860  White County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F5493  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 24 Apr 1842 - (White County) Tennessee Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 30 Aug 1861 - Huntersville, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Simrell Cemetery, White County, Tennessee Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Died during the War of a fever...Joe L. McPeak
    • Abstracted from the UCGA | Volume XXXV | Number 4 | Winter 2010, page 26;

      " Dear Mother,

      I received your kind letter of the 21st withich afford me great pleasure & satisfaction to her that you' all was well. I am well and doing very well. I have had the measles but is well now. We are in camp with 8 to 10 thousand volunteers we all get along very well, everybody do pears to be freindly towards each other. I am very well satisfied better than I expected to be. We have plenty of every thing to eat but vegetables. Me & William Bob Grissom & Lawson Moore R., Moore Joe Pollard (Me & William, Bob Grissom & Lawson Moore & Joe Pollard*) mix to gather. We able to do very well only our cooking is not the best that I have ever eat on. Mother, you mention in your letter - you once thought that I would ten to forget you so soon - I appeal to you in the greatest earness that I have not for gotten you it and never will. I wood like to see you and all the rest of my brothers & sisters as ba bad as you all want to see me. Give my respects to all my inquiring frinds so nothing more at present bu remani you affectionate son until death.

      Wallis McPeak Esq-"

  • Sources 
    1. [S58] "The Families of White County,Tennessee in 1860", enumerated & notated by, p. 42 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S694] "United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8TY-BH9 : accessed 04 May 2014.