Eleanor Thompson Wallace ¹

  Research Notes:

A great deal of information is from an email to Lorna Wallace Johnson from Virginia Wallace on 29 April 2002. Gina had met Eleanor in a Washington State nursing home (Seattle area) & related details of a conversation, Eleanor's reminiscences. Pertinent text of the email follows:

Eleanor was born Eleanor Wallace in 1914, in Long Beach, of parents Edward and Eleanor. I believe she said her father was a banker.
Eleanor's brothers: John and Bill.
Eleanor's sisters: Margery, editor of the women's section of the morning newspaper "Long Beach Sun"; and sister Jean.
Eleanor married Henry Marshall from Virginia, a naval officer, "the only way to leave Long Beach in those days." The social worker told me her husband retired an Admiral. He is now deceased.
Eleanor's children all live in Seattle: John (owns a bookstore), Mark (a lawyer), Susan (retired), Betsy (retired).
Eleanor remember visiting a house in Laguna Beach and playing on the beach.
Eleanor remembers a "rich old Uncle Frank with a mansion on a hill, yes, like a castle." She remembered an organ and wonderful food.
Eleanor remembered an old uncle who was Lt. Governor of Valifornia
Eleanor rememberd "Lorna, she was a baby, we called her baby."
Eleanor remembers Uncle William, Lind, Stanley, Donald.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census: U.S, 3 Apr 1930, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. ³ 2828 E. First Street, Long Beach
Household:
Eleanor D. Wallace, head, F, W, 55, wd, 25, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvanis, Pennsylvania
John D. Wallace, son, M, W, 26, S, Wisconsin, Canada-English, Pennsylvania, broker, real estate loans
Marjorie Wallace, daughter, F, W, 25, S, Wisconsin, Canada-English, Pennsylvania, reporter, newspaper
Eleanor T. Wallace, daughter, F, W, 16, S, California, Canada-English, Pennsylvania, none

• Census: U.S, 9 Apr 1940, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. ⁴ 325 Coronado, Long Beach, California
Household:
Henry M. Marshall, head, M, W, 36, M, Virginia, gunnery officer, U.S.N.
Eleanor Marshall, wife, F, W, 26, M, California
Susan Marshall, daughter, F, W, 3, S, Pennsylvania
Clayton R. Dudley, brother-in-law, M, W, 37, M, Missouri, communication offider, U.S.N.
Marjorie Dudley, sister-in-law, F, W, 35, M, Wisconsin
Jean Dudley, niece, F, W, 6, S, California
James Dudley, nephew, M, W, 2, S, California

• Residence, 1973, Seattle, King, Washington, United States.

• Residence, 2002, Seattle, King, Washington, United States.

Eleanor married Admiral Henry Morris Marshall. (Admiral Henry Morris Marshall was born on 6 Oct 1903 in Fauquier, Virginia, United States and died on 2 Jun 1994 in Seattle, King, Washington, United States.)