Oliver Campbell Wallace Family Papers
This collection houses notebooks, photographs, clippings, certificates, and biographical information documenting Oliver Campbell Wallace and his immediate family. The family photographs include images of Mary, Etta, Louise, Olive, John, and John Jr. Many of the other photographs are unidentified, but one is labeled Mrs. Lula Fagg.
Dates
- circa 1900-1990
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Extent
0.5 Linear Feet (1 half box)
Abstract
This collection houses notebooks, photographs, clippings, certificates, and biographical information documenting Oliver Campbell Wallace and his immediate family.
Biographical/Historical Note
Oliver Campbell Wallace was born on October 24, 1872. He graduated from Freedmans Normal Institute in Maryville, Tennessee and earned his AB at Maryville College in 1892. After teaching school in Knoxville, he attended the Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1901. He was licensed to preach in 1899 and ordained in 1901. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Theology from the Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was the only Black member of the class.
Wallace began his preaching career in Beaufort, South Carolina. Here, he met and married Mary Commons. Their first child, Louise, was born in 1908. The family later moved to Monticello, Arkansas, where their other two children, Olive Marguerite and John Marion, were born. Mary Wallace died shortly after John's birth, and Wallace married Etta M. (Cotton) Hunter (1885-1955), a widow, on October 15, 1909. The family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1920 when Wallace accepted a pastorate at the First Congregational Church. They moved again in 1927 when Wallace became the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in his home town of Maryville. He continued to serve at this church and teach at Hale High School until he died on October 8, 1955. Wallace is buried in Blount County.
John Marion Wallace married Nina (1901-1975) and had one son, John Marion Wallace Jr., who served in the U.S. Army during World War II. John Wallace Sr. died in Denver, Colorado in 1953.
Olive Marguerite Wallace was born on December 10, 1907, in Monticello, Arkansas. She attended Philander Smith College in Little Rock where she was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. After college she became a teacher in Knoxville. She married Fred Henry (1902-1967) on August 14, 1943. After his death, Olive returned to school and completed her Master of Science in Education at the University of Tennessee. She married Paris Hannum (1904-1994) in 1974, and the couple continued to live in Tennessee. Olive Hannum died on November 6, 2000, in Maryville.
Arrangement
Collection consists of one box.
Acquisition Note
This collection was donated to Special Collections in 2007.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository