THE WALLACE FAMILY AND THE WALLACE STORE OF EAST EARL By Hon. A. G. Seyfert Midway between Blue Ball and East Earl station, on the Lancaster and Downingtown branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, on what was formerly known as the Downingtown pike, now one of the State's best highways, is the old

friend Clare was hungry many a day for lie had not a penny to buy bread. Yet, when the end came as a patient of charity, the press of the State gave him more space on the front page than the richest man or woman that passed to the Great Beyond from this country. Why? Because there are higher and better

settlement. He presented his credentials from Cotton Mather to the Presbytery at New Castle on July 29, 1724, and on the same day became a member of that Pres- bytery and was sent to supply at Octorara, with a special injunction to collect a congregation at Pequea and organize a Presbyterian Church there

-time vigor, and he delivered a masterly address. This, by the way, was the last time that hi eloquent tongue was heard in a public address. After a brief illness he died on March 25, 1891. His remains repose in the family lot in Lancaster cemetery. In 1851, at the August meeting of the Lancaster City

corner of the village stands the Bowman-Musselman store. It also has a porch, and on it at this time were many who could like- wise hear the address, which not only fell upon ears of those in sympathy with the speaker, but upon many loyal men as well. From these I secured much information later in life

3, 1863, at the age of 96 years. On May 6, 18C6, Barbara married John Casper Frietchie, who died in 1849. Both were buried in an old grave yard in Frederick. On Memorial Day, May 30, 1913, both bodies were removed to Mount Olivet Cemetery and re-interred. On September 9, 1914, a handsome granite

, to report and make preparations to move to Canada the following year, which, they did. These were the pioneer settlers from Pennsylvania in what is now the Mennonite settlement of Waterloo County, Ontario. The descendants of these families who are now some of the prominent citizens of Waterloo county

tract of land, granted by Penn to his father, southeast of Churchtown, between the Conestoga and the Welsh Mountain. This tract Note: See Illustrations opposite page 90. �has been in the Shirk name to the present day and now contains three farms. Here the boy, Joseph, was born on January 30th, 1820, in