All Accounted For: William M. Wallen's 16 Children

I hit a milestone today and my toes are tappin' to that Genealogy Happy Dance tune. As the third generation to work on this, I finally have all the children of my paternal great, great grandfather, William M. Wallen, and most all their spouses and some children, accounted for and listed on Find A Grave.

Long before computers, my grandaunt Sula Wallen Splitek, wrote letters, made phone calls and visited relatives trying to gather information on all her grandfather's children and who they married. Out of the 9 children by his first wife, only 3 ever married and had families. All Sula's first cousins died fairly young. William had 7 more children by his second wife. 1 died in infancy and the rest all married, but Fannie died before she had any children. Sula did give us last names of the male spouses of these half cousins, albeit some were spelled wrong, but she didn't have any of their first names or any children. That's what I had to work with. As you can see, this memorial for William was created in 2001. Today, it is complete. 

William M. Wallen Find A Grave Memorial
Click on top and bottom halves to enlarge or see the memorial at the link below.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5653667

Read more about Sula at this link
Sula (Wallen) Splitek - Our Family History Trailblazer

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