Joseph Sawyer Wallis Jr. was born in Mayfield, California (now Palo Alto) to Sarah Armstrong Wallis and Joseph Sawyer Wallis Sr. Sarah was a leading advocate for women’s rights in California, and Joseph Sr. was a prominent attorney and politician in Santa Clara County. He was the local justice of the peace for several years and served as a state senator after his election in 1862. For the remainder of his life, he was always “Judge Wallis”.
Sarah was a true pioneer woman, walking overland from Missouri into California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train in 1844. Later Sarah had a house built for her family in Mayfield, California and became a leader in the suffrage movement for women’s voting rights.
Joseph Wallis Jr. grew up in the rural village of Mayfield, south of San Francisco. In 1870 Joseph is 11, living with his parents and adopted brother, Talbot 17, sister Eva 14, sister Josephine 13 and brother William 9. In 1880, Joseph at age 21 is a boarder with the Margaret Lynch family on J Street in Sacramento. Joseph gives his occupation as lawyer, having had much council and support from his attorney father, Judge Joseph Wallis Sr.
Joseph Jr. was also greatly helped by his mother’s brother Judge John Wesley Armstrong. Uncle Armstrong was a Superior Court Judge in Sacramento and a director of the California State Library in Sacramento.
In 1882, at age 23, Joseph died of typhoid fever in Sacramento. His parents brought him home to Mayfield, and he was buried in Redwood City. Joseph’s parents were later interred next to him, but there are no headstones or markers on the Wallis plot at Union Cemetery.
The Wallis family Mayfield Farm location is marked by California State Landmark No. 969 "Homesite of Sarah Wallis - Mayfield Farm" on La Selva Drive in Palo Alto. In Palo Alto, south of California Avenue stands “Sarah Wallis Park” that commemorates where the second Wallis family home in Mayfield was located.
The Wallis family name is also remembered by Wallis Court, a street in Palo Alto across from Alta Mesa Cemetery, where there is a burial monument for the youngest son of Sarah and Joseph Wallis – William A. Wallis and his wife Sadie.
Bio: Allen Rountree
Sarah was a true pioneer woman, walking overland from Missouri into California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train in 1844. Later Sarah had a house built for her family in Mayfield, California and became a leader in the suffrage movement for women’s voting rights.
Joseph Wallis Jr. grew up in the rural village of Mayfield, south of San Francisco. In 1870 Joseph is 11, living with his parents and adopted brother, Talbot 17, sister Eva 14, sister Josephine 13 and brother William 9. In 1880, Joseph at age 21 is a boarder with the Margaret Lynch family on J Street in Sacramento. Joseph gives his occupation as lawyer, having had much council and support from his attorney father, Judge Joseph Wallis Sr.
Joseph Jr. was also greatly helped by his mother’s brother Judge John Wesley Armstrong. Uncle Armstrong was a Superior Court Judge in Sacramento and a director of the California State Library in Sacramento.
In 1882, at age 23, Joseph died of typhoid fever in Sacramento. His parents brought him home to Mayfield, and he was buried in Redwood City. Joseph’s parents were later interred next to him, but there are no headstones or markers on the Wallis plot at Union Cemetery.
The Wallis family Mayfield Farm location is marked by California State Landmark No. 969 "Homesite of Sarah Wallis - Mayfield Farm" on La Selva Drive in Palo Alto. In Palo Alto, south of California Avenue stands “Sarah Wallis Park” that commemorates where the second Wallis family home in Mayfield was located.
The Wallis family name is also remembered by Wallis Court, a street in Palo Alto across from Alta Mesa Cemetery, where there is a burial monument for the youngest son of Sarah and Joseph Wallis – William A. Wallis and his wife Sadie.
Bio: Allen Rountree
Joseph Sawyer Wallis Jr. was born in Mayfield, California (now Palo Alto) to Sarah Armstrong Wallis and Joseph Sawyer Wallis Sr. Sarah was a leading advocate for women’s rights in California, and Joseph Sr. was a prominent attorney and politician in Santa Clara County. He was the local justice of the peace for several years and served as a state senator after his election in 1862. For the remainder of his life, he was always “Judge Wallis”.
Sarah was a true pioneer woman, walking overland from Missouri into California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train in 1844. Later Sarah had a house built for her family in Mayfield, California and became a leader in the suffrage movement for women’s voting rights.
Joseph Wallis Jr. grew up in the rural village of Mayfield, south of San Francisco. In 1870 Joseph is 11, living with his parents and adopted brother, Talbot 17, sister Eva 14, sister Josephine 13 and brother William 9. In 1880, Joseph at age 21 is a boarder with the Margaret Lynch family on J Street in Sacramento. Joseph gives his occupation as lawyer, having had much council and support from his attorney father, Judge Joseph Wallis Sr.
Joseph Jr. was also greatly helped by his mother’s brother Judge John Wesley Armstrong. Uncle Armstrong was a Superior Court Judge in Sacramento and a director of the California State Library in Sacramento.
In 1882, at age 23, Joseph died of typhoid fever in Sacramento. His parents brought him home to Mayfield, and he was buried in Redwood City. Joseph’s parents were later interred next to him, but there are no headstones or markers on the Wallis plot at Union Cemetery.
The Wallis family Mayfield Farm location is marked by California State Landmark No. 969 "Homesite of Sarah Wallis - Mayfield Farm" on La Selva Drive in Palo Alto. In Palo Alto, south of California Avenue stands “Sarah Wallis Park” that commemorates where the second Wallis family home in Mayfield was located.
The Wallis family name is also remembered by Wallis Court, a street in Palo Alto across from Alta Mesa Cemetery, where there is a burial monument for the youngest son of Sarah and Joseph Wallis – William A. Wallis and his wife Sadie.
Bio: Allen Rountree
Sarah was a true pioneer woman, walking overland from Missouri into California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train in 1844. Later Sarah had a house built for her family in Mayfield, California and became a leader in the suffrage movement for women’s voting rights.
Joseph Wallis Jr. grew up in the rural village of Mayfield, south of San Francisco. In 1870 Joseph is 11, living with his parents and adopted brother, Talbot 17, sister Eva 14, sister Josephine 13 and brother William 9. In 1880, Joseph at age 21 is a boarder with the Margaret Lynch family on J Street in Sacramento. Joseph gives his occupation as lawyer, having had much council and support from his attorney father, Judge Joseph Wallis Sr.
Joseph Jr. was also greatly helped by his mother’s brother Judge John Wesley Armstrong. Uncle Armstrong was a Superior Court Judge in Sacramento and a director of the California State Library in Sacramento.
In 1882, at age 23, Joseph died of typhoid fever in Sacramento. His parents brought him home to Mayfield, and he was buried in Redwood City. Joseph’s parents were later interred next to him, but there are no headstones or markers on the Wallis plot at Union Cemetery.
The Wallis family Mayfield Farm location is marked by California State Landmark No. 969 "Homesite of Sarah Wallis - Mayfield Farm" on La Selva Drive in Palo Alto. In Palo Alto, south of California Avenue stands “Sarah Wallis Park” that commemorates where the second Wallis family home in Mayfield was located.
The Wallis family name is also remembered by Wallis Court, a street in Palo Alto across from Alta Mesa Cemetery, where there is a burial monument for the youngest son of Sarah and Joseph Wallis – William A. Wallis and his wife Sadie.
Bio: Allen Rountree
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