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Virginia Carter (Yates) Wallace 1914 - 2001

Virginia Carter (Yates) Wallace was born on August 31, 1914 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia United States. She was married to George Lee Wallace on December 24, 1927 in Pittsylvania County, and they were together until George's death on November 19, 1954 in Leaksville, Rockingham County, North Carolina. She had children Margaret Frances (Wallace) Pruitt, Reuben Lee Wallace, Thelma Virginia Wallace, Evelyn Helen (Wallace) Scarce Oakes, Virginia Dare Wallace Jones, Mildred (Wallace) Emerson, Betty Joyce (Wallace) Marshall, George David Wallace, Kenneth Ray Wallace, and Dennis Wayne Wallace. Virginia Wallace died at age 87 years old on October 25, 2001 in Danville, VA, and was buried on October 27, 2001 at Wallace Family Cemetery Wallace Ln, in Pittsylvania County.
Virginia Carter (Yates) Wallace
August 31, 1914
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States
October 25, 2001
Danville, Virginia, United States
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  • 08/31
    1914

    Birthday

    August 31, 1914
    Birthdate
    Pittsylvania County, Virginia United States
    Birthplace
  • 10/25
    2001

    Death

    October 25, 2001
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Danville, Virginia United States
    Death location
  • 10/27
    2001

    Gravesite & Burial

    October 27, 2001
    Funeral date
    Wallace Family Cemetery Wallace Ln, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia 24549, United States
    Burial location
  • Obituary

    Virginia Wallace Dry Fork, V.A. - Virginia Yates Wallace, 87, of 345 Wallace Lane, died October 25, 2001, at Roman Eagle Memorial Home after four years of declining health and one day at Roman Eagle. Born August 31, 1914, in Pittsylvania County, V.A., she was the daughter of David Wilson Yates and Pattie Haley Yates. She was married December 24, 1927, to George Lee Wallace, who predeceased her November 19, 1954. She lived all of her life in Dry Fork, Pittsylvania County, V.A., and was a homemaker. She was a member of Hopewell United Methodist Church. Survivors include three sons, Ruben Wallace, Kenneth Wallace, and Dennis Wallace, all of Dry Fork, Pittsylvania County, V.A.; four daughters, Evelyn W. Oakes of Ruffin, N.C., Virginia W. Jones of Blairs, V.A., Mildred W. Emerson of Dry Fork, Pittsylvania County, V.A., and Betty W. Marshall of Roanoke, V.A.; 14 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. She was predeceased, in addition to her husband and parents, by one son, George David Wallace; one daughter, Margaret W. Pruitt; one sister and two brothers. The funeral will be held 2 P.M. Saturday at Hopewell United Methodist Church with the Rev. Clay Knick officiating. Interment will follow at Wallace Family Cemetery on Wallace Lane. The family received friends 7-8:30 P.M. Friday at Hopewell United Methodist Church and other times at the residence. Wrenn-Yeatts North Main Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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In 1914, in the year that Virginia Carter (Yates) Wallace was born, in August, the world's first red and green traffic lights were installed at the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland Ohio. The electric traffic light had been invented by a policeman in Salt Lake City Utah in 1912.
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In 1920, by the time she was just 6 years old, in September, a bomb exploded in the J.P. Morgan bank building in New York City, killing 30 people immediately - 8 later died due to their injuries - and injuring another 200. Killing more people than the 1910 bombing of the LA Times (the deadliest terrorist act up until then), no one took responsibility and the perpetrators were never found. Italian anarchists were suspected of the bombing.
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