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J. M. Wallace has been occupied as a farmer and stock-raiser of Fourche La Fave Township with good results. A native of Carthage, Moore County, N. C., he was born on March 4, 1850, his parents being Isham and Nancy Wallace, both born in the same State, who were the parents of fifteen children, eleven of them yet living: William W. (residing in North Carolina, where he is a farmer, and has been sheriff of Moore County for three terms), Quimby (a farmer and residing in the same county), Emsby (a farmer also in the same county, who represented them in the State legislature in 1868), S. D. (a farmer, and at one time sheriff of that county), V. A. and Samuel B. (both farmers of Moore County, N. C), Clarkie (wife of George Corkman), Sarah (wife of John Garner), Hettie (wife of James Horner), Mary (also married), and all residing in Moore County. The father of these children died June 15, 1885, his wife following him on August 3, 1886. J. M. Wallace remained with his father and attended the public schools at Carthage in his youth, and when eighteen years of age went to college at Greensboro, Guilford County, N. C. He afterward taught school for about two years, and then moved to Little Rock, Ark., where he entered into business, and from there to Texarkana, where he was engaged in the cigar business. He again returned to Little Rock, but did not remain long before he moved to Dardanelle, Yell County, and from there to Aplin, Perry County, where he took charge of and conducted a saw-mill. From Aplin he came to Perryville, where he bought a farm of eighty acres, with about fifty-three acres under cultivation, and has resided there since. On December 3, 1875, he was married to Miss Emma Mitchell, a daughter of William Mitchell, by whom he had one child: Byrdee (born June, 1877, and dying in August of the same year), the mother dying some time afterward in Texarkana. Mr. Wallace was again married, his second union taking place on August 3, 1881, to Miss Dora Laughlin, a daughter of S. H. and L. E. Laughlin, of Perryville, by whom he has had five children: Ernest I. (born June 13, 1882), Myrtle (born December 13, 1883), Jessie (born August 15, 1885), Johnie Ellen (born December 27, 1887). Mr. Wallace became well and favorably known after a short residence in Perry County, and for two years was constable of Fourche la Fave Township, during which period the county was without a sheriff. He and his wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Wallace is a strong Democrat and a valuable support to that party.