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Subject: April 3, 1817 (To Bill)
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 04:30:55 EDT

Bill,

Once again, thanks so much for the History info....this particular one
really helped me with my research, as his son Alexander Wallace married my
g-g-grandmother Nancy Green Kile in Lusk Co, TX in 1881 as her 2nd husband. We
never new much about Alex, until I saw this and researched it!! I have pics of
Nancy and Alex....he was a big man also, and my g-gUncle Doss called him
"Bigfoot" . His stepsons followed him into the Texas Rangers also, as well as my
grandfather and his brothers....many interesting stories there.



John Kyle
San Diego



1817 Texas Ranger "Big Foot" Wallace born
The legendary Texas Ranger and frontiersman "Big Foot" Wallace is born in
Lexington, Kentucky.
In 1836, 19-year-old William Alexander Anderson Wallace received news that
one of his brothers had been killed in the Battle of Goliad, an early
confrontation in the Texan war of independence with Mexico. Pledging to
"take pay of
the Mexicans" for his brother's death, Wallace left Lexington and headed
for
Texas. By the time he arrived, the war was over, but Wallace found he liked
the spirited independence of the new Republic of Texas and decided to stay.
Over six feet tall and weighing around 240 pounds, Wallace's physique made
him an intimidating man, and his unusually large feet won him the nickname
"Big Foot."

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