Histories

Green Berry Wallace (about 1802, Tennessee to 1859, Texas) married Sarah D. "Sally" Smyth (1802, North Caroline to after 1865, Texas) on 8 December 1825 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Sally was a daughter of Susannah Sharp and Andrew Smyth, and sister of George Washington Smyth (1803-1866) and Andrew Farney Smyth (1817-1879), also early Texas settlers. G. W. Smyth came to Texas in 1830, was an early surveyor, and in 1848 was a Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office. 

As early as 1835 Green and Sally Wallace were plannning to move to Texas, but low land prices in Alabama, sickness, and concern for the Smyth parents prevented their move until after 1840. Green Wallace is listed as one of the earliest white settlers in Cherokee County. By January 1846 Green lamented being so far from navigation to ship his cotton. Living near Douglass, his crop had to be marketed in Shreveport, Louisiana. Cherokee County land records show his purchases from 1847. He was appointed postmaster of Pinetown in 1852. His death is recorded in the 1860 mortality schedule, which states he was a tanner and had been paralized for 3 years. Sally died sometime after 1865. Sons Beaufort A., Edward S., Andrew S., and John Green Wallace served in the Civil War. Another son, Malcolm, died in Texas as an infant in 1845.

George Washington Smyth Papers, Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Andrew Farney Smyth Papers, Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Appointments of US Postmasters, Vol. 19, Pinetown, Cherokee County, Texas, Green Wallace, 1852.

Texas County Tax Rolls, Cherokee County, Texas.

1830, 1840 US census records, Lawrence County, Alabama.

1850 US census, Cherokee County, Texas.

US Civil War Soldiers records, Texas muster roll records.

William Seale, "Texas Riverman, The Life and Times of Captain Andrew Smyth," 1966.

The Autobiography of George W Smyth, Southwestern Historical Quarterly 36 (January 1933).

Robert Wooster, "George Washington Smyth," Handbook of Texas.