IDFirstMiddleLastDOBDODCOD
183SarahJ.WallaceN/A3/7/1853N/A

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
N/AFALSEN/AAdams Street

lot
plot
N/AR8 G8
relations
James Wallace (father, b. c1823) Ellen L. Wallace (mother, b. c1821) John Wallace (grandfather, b. c1786)

comments
Her age at death was 3 years and 24 days old. She was enumerated in the 1850 census, living with her parents in Middleburg Twp. Her father was James Wallace, age 27, a stonecutter with $1200 of real property, from Ireland. Her mother was Ellen, age 21, born in OH. She was Sarah J, 7 months on the 21st of Sept., born in OH. Also living with the family was John Wallace, 64 years old, a shoemaker from Ireland (likely her grandfather). Her father was the eponymous founder of German Wallace College. Due to the influx of German immigrants to work in the Berea quarries, a German Methodist minister and Baldwin University professor, Jacob Rothweiler, approached another local quarry owner, James Wallace, to establish a separate school for the German students. In 1864, Wallace became the chief trustee of the new college, which merged with Baldwin University in 1913 to become Baldwin-Wallace College. Sarah died before there were newspapers to report her cause of death, and the village was not yet recording burials. Her tombstone is a tablet, inscribed as follows: "Sarah J." in relief carving, then "Dau. Of JAS. & E.L. WALLACE DIED March 7, 1853, Aged 3 yrs & 24 d." The stone was transcribed in 1904 and 1934. Sarah J. Wallace has a sandstone personal headstone. It is at lot 19, row 8, and grave 9. There was a fizz test performed and a magnifier was used to examine the grain. The base of the marker was tan. The marker was tinted grey with black streaks. There is also silver on the top of the marker. The marker is 32 inches high, 14 inches wide, and 3 1/2 inches thick. The marker faces West and the inscriptions are also on that side. The marker only commemorates Sarah. The marker is not decorative, but there was four types of font used. Its rectangle shape is very distinct. The marker is aso not too worn. The marker is in good condition, but chipped and dirty. The marker is mostly legible, except the last phrase (it could be her age). The letters are engraved in the stone and her name protrudes from the stone. The carving is incised, relief, and has three dimensional carving. Her name is in relief carving and the rest is incised. The marker states, “Sarah J. Dau of. JAS & E.L. WALLACE DIED March 7, 1853 Aged 3 yrs 21 ds.”

sources
1850 US Federal Census, James Wallace household, series M432, roll 673, p. 186 Berea Historical Society, Baldwin Wallace College history [need complete citation information] Berea, Historical guide book [need complete citation information]. E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904; Adams St Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 Baldwin Wallace College History Dept. Cemetery Documentation Project, Sarah Wallace, Bryce Sylvester, 13 November 2007.