Wallace, Franklin E.

Rome Sentinel
February 5, 1900

The death of Franklin E. Wallace, the well known popcorn dealer, occurred some time during Saturday night at his home in the rear of 608 W. Dominick Street. On Saturday he had complained to his mother, Mrs. Marietta Perry, who kept house for him, that he did not feel very well and he retired somewhat earlier than usual. When his mother went to call him about 7 o'clock Sunday morning she found him dead. Coroner Nock was notified but deemed an inquest unnecessary as death had resulted from heart disease. Mr. Wallace was a son of Lyman Wallace who died about 36 years ago, and was born in the town of Rome near the southern boundary about 1836. The greater part of his life had been spent in the city and town of Rome. During the civil war he served in Co. E 26th Regiment, N. Y. Volunteer Infantry for three years and was wounded in the shoulder at the battle of Antietam. As a result of a sunstroke he suffered nervous prostration and received a discharge. He was a machinist by trade and followed that line of work for six years in Watertown. He was also a car inspector on the Watertown Road for a time and later worked in the car shops in this city. Several years of his life were spent in the west. For some years he had not been able to perform much labor and had become a familiar figure about town and at fairs and other outdoor gatherings through selling popcorn. Besides his mother he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Duncan Drew and two sisters, Mrs. Benjamin Coonrad and Mrs. George E. Newton, all of this city, also one brother, Arthur Wallace of Whitesboro.