Jane Wallace has been a brick wall for decades. Then a new source was found by FamilySearch.org of their immigration to California in 1859 where her birthplace is given as Townsend, Mass. More research reveals on FindAGrave.com that she has a mother and two younger sisters, both of whom were born in New Lebanon, Columbia, New York, which reveals that her family migrated from northernmost Massachusetts to New Lebanon, Columbia county, New York between 1802 and 1808. All three girls were raised there and married there. The youngest sister Sarah B Wallace Hill and her husband George H. Hill migrated first in the spring of 1835 to Kingston Twp., DeKalb, Illinois where they homesteaded 160 acres and sent incouraging letters home. Eliza and her husband Horatio Nelson, Perkins followed them next in 1837 to Genoa, DeKalb, IL. Sarah's obit says she and her husband George H. Hill went in the spring of 1835. Jane and her husband Allen Bigelow went last and stayed until her mother Betsey B. Stacey Wallace, who was with them died in Genoa, IL in 1858. The next spring 1859 the Bigelows moved to California where their son Ralph had gone earlier and wrote details on how his parents should cross the plains to get to CA. The day the Bigelows left Genoa, DeKalb, Illinois, Joseph Hogeboom married their daughter, Jane Bigelow, left his family and went to CA with the Bigelows. After several years in Siskiyou county, CA they moved south to North Butte (now Pennington) Sutter, CA where they settled into farming on Bigelow Road named after them. Wallace is a special name in the family. Jane Wallace Bigelow's granddaughter, Florence Bigelow Campbell named her first son, Richard WALLACE Campbell in remembrance of her.