His home, “Valley View” is also located on the north bluff. Lyle Dickey, is also buried in the family cemetery. In the late 1930s, the house was made into a state museum, but it was eventually sold to a private owner and its contents, which still included many of Wallace’s personal possessions, were liquidated.Īnn’s father, T. The Wallaces furnished their eight-room house in a handsome fashion with furniture brought west from Boston, Mass. The two-story Gothic Revival-style home known as “The Oaks” is also pictured in the mural.
Wallace now lies in a family cemetery on Ottawa’s north bluff, not far from the home he built in 1858. Honored by military historians for withstanding a Confederate onslaught at the Battle of Shiloh, Wallace was nearly forgotten in his adopted hometown until the mural brought him and his heroism to life again. The faces of several of the soldiers who surround the painted general are Ottawa soldiers. Wallace, Ann and their daughter Isabelle are shown in the mural created by G. She was to spend the final moments of Wallace’s life by his bedside. On politics they did not always see eye-to-eye, but when the Civil War came, they were fighting on the same side, The Union.Įven as Wallace was lying wounded on the Shiloh battlefield, his wife was struggling to reach her husband in Tennessee. Dickey and Wallace were to enjoy a long and close relationship, first as law partners, then as soldiers in the Mexican War, then as father- and son-in-law after Wallace married Dickey’s daughter, Ann. Lyle Dickey and established a successful law practice here.
Instead, while traveling to Springfield, he met Ottawan T. William Hervy Lamme Wallace could have begun the practice of law with a Springfield lawyer named Abraham Lincoln.
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