Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

A letter from John W. DeVoss, married to a niece of T.G. Wallingford, refers to seeing John in about 1906 or so. He had at that time some form of government position, according to the letter, and died soon after that.

from History of Decatur County, Indiana : its people, industries and institutions (1915)

(http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofdecatur02hard)

William Harrison Snodgrass, father of Mrs. Wallingford, was born in 1818, and died in 1900, his wife, Mary, was born in 1823, and died in 1905. Mr. Snodgrass was a son of John Snodgrass, of Kentucky. He lived in Ripley county until 1884, and then came to Greensburg, where he retired from business, and where his last days were spent. Capt. William Harrison Snodgrass, of the Eighty-third Indiana, enlisted in Decatur county, and served throughout the Civil War. He was captain of Company A, and enlisted as second lieutenant, advanced to first lieutenant, then captain and brevet major. His children were: Josephine Callahan, who died in 1900; Emma Hatch, now a widow; Hester Dennison, deceased; Worth, deceased; Melissa Dennison now living at Greensburg ; Mary Wallingford, and Dea Jenks, deceased. They were all members of the Christian church.

John Snodgrass, paternal grandfather of Mrs. Wallingford, was a native of Kentucky, and located in Indiana, in 1821, where he bought government land, the deeds to which were signed by John Quincy Adams.

OBIT

Col.John N. Wallingford died suddenly at Lawrenceburg, Tuesday at age 67 years. He was in the Dry Goods business in Greensburg from 1866 to 1885.He was born in Fleming Co.Ky in 1840, he served in Co C 10th Ky Calvary from Aug 1862 to Sept 1863 during the Civil War. He married Alice Foster of Cattletsburg, KY soon after the war and moved to Greensburg in 1866, she died some 20 years ago, leaving 3 sons, Morris who died young manhood and John D. and William who live in Des Moines, Iowa. He was buried in South Park Cemt. His second marriage was to Mary Snodgrass of this city, he leaves a widow, a sister, Mrs. Alicia Evans of Forest Hill and a brother William in Nebraska.

From http://www.qwerty.geek.nz/reference/WallingfordTGLetters/1873Dec02_JohnWallingford-HiramsSon-ToTGWallingford.pdf

In 1873 John wrote to his uncle Thomas Ginn Wallingford who lived in Texas to collect on some whiskey he had sold into Texas. The irony is that T.G. was temperate - he didn't drink at all!

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from the letter:

As already said I wrote you at Courtney. I trust you will have recvd the letter 'ere this reaches you, for I wrote on some business important to myself. I will merely recapitualate in brief. You know I sold to Elson & Templeman, Navasota 1 BBl Kelln Bourbon $3.00, and, that there was a misunderstanding as to whether the pay was to be specie or currency. So soon as I learned this, I wrote them to remit to my agents Park & Preston, Galveston in currency, when they were pleased to do so. They had already written my agents in a seeming ill humor, that the liquor was subject to their order.

I wrote them to keep the whiskey and pay for it in currency, if that was their understanding. Now, from that day to this we have not been able to hear one word from Elson & Templeman on the subject. I have written repeatedly, and so have Park & Preston, but they wont answer and have not paid one cent. I fear they sent the BBl to the depot, or, reshipped it to Park & Preston, and, if
at the depot, it may be used up, and if shipped back, it may be lost. Certainly Elson & Templeman have treated me like dogs inany event. First, I have uniformly written to them politely, and in some cases sent them a stamp to answer with, and they have neither paid the debt, or, deigned to answer my letters, or, write a word in explanation. Now Uncle I want to ask you to do me the favor which in like circumstances I would do for you, and that is, to go to Navasota and see these men, and find out what is the matter and whether they have or have not used the whiskey, and if not, where is it. Take charge of it, if you find it (and they don't wish to pay for it) and then write to me. If the whiskey is not used, it is the best to day in the state, and is worth here
$4.50 per gal. Whatever your expences are I will pay. I am in a very close place. My Texas trip has nearly ruined me, and if I don't get this money I will be in a still worse fix. I hereby authorize you to receive and receipt for the money for the whiskey, which you can experss to me, or, send me a check from your Bank or New York. You can say this and show your authority to Mrss. Elson & Templeman. I have already paid Mrss. Park & Preston their commission on this sale, so that there is no necessity of the money passing through their hands. But, if Elson & Templeman want to pay it through them let them remit to them. Please do these things for me, and fix the matter up. Acknowledge the receipt of this, and let me hear from you, as soon as you have gone to Navasota.

In a letter from Hiram to T.G. Wallingford in 1882, he refers to John's three boys attending school.