Memories of Wallace Heritage - Official website of Rev. JO Wallace

Jane Hardwick Young and Alton Young relate these memories of J. W. Wallace
The first memories of J. W. Wallace were as quest speaker at the Finley TN Pentecostal Church
where the Hardwick family attended. The church did not have a pastor. Local ministers from
Jackson, Memphis, etc. would speak. These ministers would frequently stay in the Hardwick
home. Later the Hardwick family moved to Nashville and attended the church with J. W.
Wallace as the pastor. They remember picnics with other church youth in the yard of J. W.
Wallace on Robertson Road. Alton remembers laying the footing to the church basement
building at 51 st and Delaware Ave. The church youth were very good friends and would
frequently take the city bus to Centennial Park on Sunday afternoons.
The leadership of J. W. Wallace can best be described as gentle and kind. His messages were
sincere and forceful but not demeaning. Alton served as the church Treasurer and Board
Member for several years. J. W. Wallace was always well dressed. Since Alton was in the shoe
business, J. W. Wallace frequently purchased shoes from him. The purchase of a Douglas
kangaroo leather dress shoe, size 10 1/2 D was purchased for $4. Alton shared a love for
gardening with J. W. Wallace. He still has flowering bulbs J. W. gave him.
J. W. Wallace as Chairman of the Pentecostal Bible Institute Board – 1950
E.E. McNatt, L.H. Benson, O.J. Whitten, W.M. Greer, J.W. Wallace
M.H. Hansford, C.D. Soper, Buford Miller, J.L. Patton