| Parents: Education: Occupation: Married: |
Christian H. Huppler Mary McLaren Completed first year of high school [Source: 1940 U.S. Census] Farm laborer on the home farm [Source: 1920 U.S. Census] Highway maintenance [Source: 1940 U.S. Census] Anna Eleanor Roche May 23, 1922 Milbank, Grant, South Dakota |
| Children: | James Robert | Apr. 4, 1923 | † June 16, 1923 |
| Mary Jane Louise "Mary Lou" | Sept. 26, 1924 | † July 31, 2001 | |
| Edward George | Dec. 22, 1926 | ||
| Margaret Alice | Jan. 29, 1928 | ||
| Eileen Cecilia | Feb. 11, 1930 | ||
| Kathleen "Kay" Rozann | Mar. 24, 1936 | ||
| Notes: | At the time of the June 6, 1900 U.S. federal census, Wallace J. was 6 years and living with his parents and two |
| younger siblings, Alice G. (age 4) and James M. (age 3), in Phipps, Codington, South Dakota.
His father was working as a farmer. His parents had been married for seven years, and his mother was the mother of three children, all of whom were still living.
At the time of the May 5, 1910 U.S. federal census, Wallace G. was 16 years old and living with his parents, two younger siblings, Alice G. (age 14) and James M. (age 12), and Katherine E. Boe, a 20-year-old single teacher for the public schools from Minnesota who was boarding with the family in Phipps, Codington, South Dakota. His parents had been married 17 years, and his mother was the mother of three children, all of whom were still living. His father was working as a farmer in general farming. His mother told the enumerator that she had emmigrated to the United States in 1881 and that his father had emmigrated in 1872. At the time of the Jan. 26, 1920 U.S. federal census, Wallace J. was 26 years old, single and living with his parents, two younger siblings, and widowed 81-year-old maternal grandmother, Nancy McLaren, in Phipps, Codington, South Dakota. His father was working as a farmer in general farming and Wallace was a laborer on the home farm along with his 22-year-old brother, James M. Wallace married Anna Eleanor Roche in Grant County, South Dakota on May 23, 1922 when they both were 28 years old. He was living in Codington County at the time and she was living in Grant County, South Dakota. At the time of the Apr. 5, 1940 U.S. census, W. J. was 46 years old and living with his 46-year-old wife Anna and their five children ranging in age from 4 to 13 years old in a home rented for $10/month at 520 2nd St. SE in Watertown, Codington, South Dakota. They had been living in the same place as of Apr. 1, 1935. Anna told the enumerator that she had completed three years of high school, her husband had completed his first year of high school, as had their daughter Mary Lou. Son Edward G. had finished 8th grade, daughter Margaret had finished school through the 6th grade, and daughter Eileen had graduated from the 3rd grade. Youngest daughter Kay was only 4 years old and not yet in school. W. J. was working 52 weeks a year in maintenance on the highway, making $1,100 in 1939, and did not have income from any other sources. Wallace died in Watertown, Codington, South Dakota in February 1975 at the age of 81. |
| Ancestry: | The Johann "Hans" Kempa Line [through marriage] |
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