Sarah Wallace
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Nov 3, 1775 - Epsom, NH Christening: Death: Jul 10, 1846 - Epsom, NH Burial: in Poor Farm Cemetery, Epsom, NH Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Abraham Wallace Mother: Hepzibah Blake
Spouses and Children
1. *Joseph Towle Marriage: Dec 25, 1791 - Epsom, NH Children: 1. Hannah Towle 2. Susan G. Towle 3. Sally Towle
Notes
General:
baptised Nov. 3, 1775, died age 71. Buried in the Poor Farm Cemetery, Epsom, NH.Marriage Notes (Joseph Towle)
NH Patriot 7-23-1846 SARAH TOWLE
In Epsom, 12th inst., Mrs. Sarah Towle, wife of the late Joseph Towle, aged 70 years, 8 months and 9 days.
New Hampshire Statesman & State Journal 7-24-1846 SARAH TOWLE (Wallace)
At Epsom, July 12th, in the full assurance of a blessed immortality, Mrs. Sarah Towle, wife of the late Joseph Towle, aged 79 years, 8 months and 9 days.
Marriage from History of Hampton, Vol. 2, p 1002
Sarah Wallace
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1744 - Rye, NH Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Samuel Wallace Mother: Sarah Moses
Spouses and Children
1. *Paul Seavey Marriage: May 10, 1764 - Rye, NH Children: 1. Gideon Seavey 2. Ebenezer Seavey 3. Deborah Seavey 4. Hannah Seavey 5. Sarah Seavey 6. Mehitable Seavey 7. Joshua Seavey 8. Samuel Wallis Seavey 9. William Seavey 10. Fanny Seavey
Notes
General:
Sarah5, born about 1744, and whose birth or baptism is not in the Rye VRs, but must be the eldest based on her marriage date and being named first in her father's will. She married at Rye, 10 May 1764 [Rye VRs, pp. 167], Paul SEAVEY, probably the son of James and Abigail (Pickering) Seavey, and if so her first cousin, once removed. [better source, Gen. Dict. of Me. and N.H., p. 619]. Paul is in Rye in the 1790 census with a household of one man over 16, four men under 16 and 4 women. He is profiled in Hosier's Rye VRs, p. 305, which gives him nine children.
Sarah Wallace
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1685 - Portsmouth, NH Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: William Wallace Mother: Jane Drake
Spouses and Children
1. *Joshua Foss Marriage: Aug 22, 1707 - New Castle, NH Children: 1. John Foss 2. Joshua Foss 3. Jane Foss 4. Wallis Foss 5. Nathaniel Foss 6. Hannah Foss 7. Mark Foss 8. Job Foss
Notes
General:
Sarah3, born say 1685, She married about 1706 (eldest child born in 1707), Joshua2 FOSS, son of John1 and Mary (Berry) Foss, and therefore, her half first cousin. He was born say 1680 and alive in 1756 when he deeded his homestead to son Job. Children listed in the Gen. Dictionary of Me. and N.H., p. 240: John, Joshua, Jane, Wallis, Nathaniel, Hannah, Mark, and Job.
(research M. Hollick)
Sarah Wallace
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1739 Christening: 1741 - Greenland, NH Death: Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Samuel Wallace Mother: Phebe Libbey
Notes
General:
Sarah5, born say 1739-40, baptized 1741 [Greenland VRs, p. 84], no further record. Not baptized at the same time as Joseph, and probably not his twin.
(research by M. Hollick)
Sarah Wallace
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: James Wallace Mother: Naomi CochraneSarah Wallace
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1837 Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: James Wallace Mother: Sarah "Sally" GodfreySarah Wallace
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Jan 15, 1778 Christening: Death: Nov 11, 1854 Burial: Griffin Cemetery No. E-12, Deerfield, NH Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: George Wallace Mother: Rachel Babb
Spouses and Children
1. *Enoch Fogg Marriage: Sep 3, 1795 - Deerfield, NH Children: 1. Rachel Fogg 2. Samuel Fogg 3. Sarah H. Fogg 4. George Wallace Fogg 5. Louise Fogg 6. Jeremiah Fogg 7. Dorothy W. Fogg 8. Angelina Fogg 9. James Madison Fogg 10. Ira D. Fogg 11. Enoch Fogg
Notes
General:
Fogg Genealogy gives her father incorrectly as John Wallace (though there was a John Wallace, son of George Wallace and Margaret McClary Wallace, that died in the Revolutionary War, and was old enough to be married and have children. There is no additional information on him. Durham Town records on the death of daughter Sarah, list father as Enoch Fogg of Kingston and Sarah Wallace of Epsom, NH.
Sarah Wallace
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1765 Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Lieut. William Wallace Mother: Mary Brown
Spouses and Children
1. *Joseph Morrill Marriage: Jan 28, 1790 - Northwood, NHSarah Ann Wallace
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Feb 1830 Christening: Death: Jul 15, 1886 Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Tufton Wallace Mother: Mary W. Palmer
Spouses and Children
1. *Elias H. Fogg Marriage:Sarah E. Wallace
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Jul 31, 1825 - Epsom, NH Christening: Death: Mar 15, 1845 - Nauvoo, IL Burial: Mar 17, 1845 - Old Nauvoo Burial Ground, IL Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: John Wallace Mother: Mary True
Notes
General:
Other sources give the middle initial as "B.". Stone erected in McClary Cemetery, died age 19, unmarried (see below). Consumption.
A Mormon Scandal
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Sarah E. Wallace
Born July 12, 1825 in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire to John Wallace and Mary True. Her brother, George Benjamin Wallace was baptized a Mormon in December 1841 in Boston by Elder Freeman A. Nickerson. Sarah probably converted about the same time. George was President of the Boston Branch until February 1843, when he was called to move to New Bedford and be president over the branch there. She lived in Lowell for quite some time and met the brother of Joseph Smith, Apostle William Smith, while there. In fact, she was also elected as Vice President of the Lowell Latter Day Saint Benevolent Sewing Society on July 17, 1844.
Sometime around October 1844, 19-year old Sarah was seduced into premarital sexual intercourse in New Bedford one Sunday by an already married Elder Samuel Brannan (whose wife, Ann Eliza Corwin Brannan, was apparently still in New York). An Elder from the Lowell Branch named Willard Messer questioned Sarah right after her seduction, and found she was deeply "dissatisfied" with what Brannan had done to her. Brannan then attempted to cover it up by having William Smith "seal" them together polygamously. When Elder Freeman Nickerson, founder of the Boston Branch, was preaching in Lowell, Sarah heard him state that anyone practicing "the spiritual wife system" would be damned to hell, and she believed it. In addition, Parley P. Pratt told her that her "sealing was not according to the Law of God" (since the polygamous marriage had been done both without proper ecclesiastical authorization, without the first wife's permission, and far away from church headquarters in Illinois). Brannan also promised to take her to New York in the spring of 1845 but she never heard from him again after he skipped town. Once Brannan reached New York, Sarah wrote him a chastising letter, "upbraiding" him for his "humbug" and charging William Smith with "assisting him" in the affair. Her brother George was in New York with Brannan when Brannan received Sarah's letter, yet said nothing to George about it. Instead, Brannan only gossiped about it with the women of the New York Branch.
Back in Lowell, Willard Messer apparently began to tell others about Brannan's extra-marital seduction of and polygamous sealing to Sarah Wallace performed by William Smith, and Messer was excommunicated in Lowell by Elder Jacob C. Phelps (President of the Boston Branch and a supporter of the erratic William Smith) on November 3, 1844, for slander, unchristianlike conduct, and profanity.
Sarah fell gravely ill from the scandal but moved to Nauvoo with her brother George the spring fo 1845. (George's wife, Mary Critchett McMurphy, was vehemntly opposed to polygamy and to escape it, she refused to move to Nauvoo and instead took their three children back to her home town of Epsom, New Hampshire, where she died in 1853.) Sarah E. Wallace died in Nauvoo on March 15, 1845, reportedly from "consumption", but all the while claiming to her brother that her illness "was occasioned by what had passed" among herself, Brannan, and William Smith. Sarah E. Wallace Brannan was only 19 years of age and was buried in the "Old Nauvoo Burial Ground" on March 17th.
George B. Wallace recorded the following in his journal upon his sister's death. The poem is based upon the epitaph engraved on the poet Robert Burns' tombstone.
Died in Concorde, N. H., March 15, (1845). Miss Sarah E. Wallace, youngest daughter of John Wallace, a native of Epsom, N. H., aged 19. Disease – consumption.
"An honest sister has gone to rest,
Do ever God with his image blest,
A friend of man, a friend of truth,
A friend of age, a friend of youth,
Few hearts like hers, with virtue warmed,
Few heads with knowledge so informed,
If there is another world, she lives in bliss,
If there is none, she made the best of this."
It is now known why her brother recorded in his journal that Sarah died in Concord, New Hampshire, when she actually died in Nauvoo and was buried there. Inexplicably neither did he recognize her marriage to Brannan (calling her "Miss Wallace").
Sarah's brother, Elder George Benjamin Wallace
George B. Wallace soon thereafter brought up charges with the Quorum of the Twelve against Samuel Brannan, as being responsible for Sarah's despair and subsequent death (see meeting minutes quoted below). The Twelve sent for Brannan to come to Nauvoo from New York to answer these charges in person and in the meantime excommunicated him based on George's testimony. On May 10, 1845 William Smith happened to be in Nauvoo and was currently in the Twelve's favor, so he answered the charges, downplaying Brannan's seduction, confirming that he had "sealed" Sarah to Brannan as his plural wife after their sexual encounter by Smith's own apostolic and patriarchal authority, and emphasizing her poor health, as well as testifying that she willingly went into the relationship. On May 24, 1845, with Brannan now present, Twelve Apostles met again regarding Brannan's role in Sarah's death, and Brigham Young callously replied that "since Sis Wallace had gone home [died], we could throw the mantle over the whole & shutter the subject", as just water under the bridge. Brannan was reinstated into full membership in the Mormon Church. Then, to keep George Wallace quiet about the scandalous death of his sister, he was allowed to marry polygamously a mere eleven days later, to Mrs. Melissa Melvina King Crowell from Boston. She was the widow of Howes Crowell, whom Wallace had known in Boston when he was Branch President there.
Minutes of Quorum of Twelve Apostles meeting with Samuel E. Brannan, May 24, 1845 (Nauvoo, Illinois), as transcribed by D. Michael Quinn, quoted in Will Bagley, The Scoundrel's Tale: The Samuel Brannan Papers, (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999) pp. 67-8.
Bro. [George B.] Wallace said, his sister [Sarah E. Wallace] came to his house in New Bedford, [Massachusetts, and] told him Bro Brannan had waited on some, one Sunday [when] she staid at home. Bro Brannan staid at home [too]. On the edge of [bed?] Brannan accomplished his desire, & went into the kitchen. Messeur [Willard Messer] came in & after reported She was dissatisfied. Wm [Smith] sealed them up. It worried her to think she must be Brannans. Bro [Parley P.] Pratt told her the sealing was not according to the Law of God. [She] went into consumption & died. Wallace wrote Br Pratt, about Brannan, that unless he repented he could not be crowned in the celestial kingdom. She said her sickness was occasioned by what had passed.
Wm Smith, acquainted with Sis Wallace at Lowel (sic), [said she was] of poor health. Brannan asked Smith if he had any objection to mary them. She manifested [a] strong attachment for Brannan. I married them [-] did not consider he had (sic) was under any obligation to any one else. Married them by all the authority he possessed for time & Eternity, and had a right &c to do as an apostle of J. Christ. Father [Freeman] Nickerson preached that if anyone should get hold of his skirts or any else, on the spiritual wife system, they would go to hell, & she believed it. Sis Wallace wrote Brannan upbraiding him with the humbug & charging me with assisting Brannan.
Prest Young, said since Sis Wallace had gone home, we could throw the mantle over the whole & shutter the subject.
Wm. Smith said he felt interested in the subject & wished the council if they chose to say whether he had a right to do so – whether he [had] a right to mary Brannan & do what he had done. Or whether [he] was to be rode on a rail, & put down, or not. Quite a time for him.
Prest Young – said he was satisfied with what Wm Smith did in the case of Brannan in marrying him to Sis Wallace. [Young] did not couple any other of Wms acts, in this decision. -
Wm Supposed that P. P. Pratt supposed that Brannan was married to two, at once, Brannan walked with Sis Wallace in public &c. She had discovered that the time would come when men would have more wives than one ==made arrangements to take her to N. York in the spring – Told her I should be master. – Would correspond with her. But [he] did not write for fear some one would get the letter. Father Nickerson went to Lowell & disaffected the minds of the sisters.
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