{"id":9455,"date":"2015-01-22T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=9455"},"modified":"2015-01-22T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:34:16","slug":"revolutionary-war-soldier-andrew-wallace-dead-at-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/revolutionary-war-soldier-andrew-wallace-dead-at-105.html","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary War Soldier Andrew Wallace \u2013 Dead at 105"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1772 at the age of 42, Andrew Wallace shipped off for North America from Scotland \u2013 and just a few years later he was fighting in the American Revolutionary War for his new country.<\/p>\n

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Elyria Republican (Elyria, Ohio), 19 February 1835, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to this old soldier\u2019s obituary, Andrew \u201cwas engaged in some of the most memorable battles of the Revolutionary War,\u201d and fought honorably. To the end of his life, he was honored by all for his military service. His most heroic moment on the battlefield came when General Marquis de Lafayette<\/a> \u201cwas wounded at the battle of Brandywine<\/a> [and] Wallace assisted in rescuing him from his perilous situation, and carried him off the field of battle to a friend\u2019s house nearly two miles distant.\u201d By the war\u2019s close, Wallace was a decorated and honored sergeant.<\/p>\n

\"Painting:<\/a>
Painting: \u201cNation Makers\u201d by Howard Pyle, depicting a scene from the Battle of Brandywine. Source: Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Wikimedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wallace lived to be 105. A few weeks before his death, the Peale Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, hosted Andrew as a living exhibit meant to be the \u201cconnecting link between the olden and modern age.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Andrew<\/a>
Richmond Whig (Richmond, Virginia), 2 December 1834, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wait \u2013 this is interesting.
\nThe article states that Andrew \u201cfought at the battle of Culloden\u2026\u201d
\nBattle of Culloden<\/a>? That was in Scotland in 1746 when the British were putting down Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites.<\/p>\n

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Thousands attended Wallace\u2019s funeral at the old St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in Manhattan, where he was buried. The Evening Post<\/em> reported that even though he \u201clived and died in the Catholic faith\u2026on his death-bed he asked to be buried with the honors of a mason and a soldier.\u201d His request was honored and although \u201cthe weather was wet and stormy\u2026there was an exceedingly brilliant display of military, the masonic fraternity, citizens and others.\u201d The Church extended the extraordinary honor of having him buried in the same tomb as the revered Bishop John Connolly (1750-1825)<\/a>, the Second Bishop of New York. Andrew Wallace was beloved by many and had a great love for the country that took him in so many years prior.<\/p>\n

\"Funeral<\/a>
Evening Post (New York, New York), 26 January 1835, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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