Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Eliza J. Gerhardt, Camden County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Mrs. Eliza J. Gerhardt, nee Wallace, is a resident of Russell Township,
Camden county, Mo.  She was born in Benton county, Mo., in 1839, and is
a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Rice) Wallace, the former of whom 
was born in Madison county, Mo., in 1809, and the latter in North Caro-
lina in 1814.  In 1838, when the country was new, the parents removed
from Madison to Benton county, Mo., where they still live.  Jacob 
Wallace, who is now seventy-nine years of age, is an active, well
preserved man for his years, and still delights to hunt as in his 
former days.  Mr. and Mrs. Wallace are the parents of eight children,
viz.: Eliza J. Gerhardt, Ellen Smith, George W., James, William, Mary
Sally, John Wesley and Alzada Franklin, the two latter deceased.  All
four of the sons served in the Union army during the late Civil War,
in which service John Wesley lost his life.  Our subject spent her 
early life in her native county and in 1856 married August Gerhardt, a
native of Germany, who was born in 1834, and came to the United States
when seventeen years of age.  He first located in Cole county, Mo., but
subsequently went to Benton county, where he worked at his trade of
wagon maker.  In 1862 he enlisted in Company F, Eighth Missouri Cavalry
and served until the close of the war, receiving his discharge in 1865.
Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt, eight of whom are
living, viz.: Johanna E. Derrick, Frederick J., Katherine E. Smith,
Harmon W., Adolph N., Ulyssimus S. A., Laura and Pinky A.  In 1874 Mr.
Gerhardt engaged in a general merchandising business in Duroc, Mo., in
partnership with Mr. Campbell, whose interest he afterward bought out,
and in 1883 he moved to Coelleda, where he purchased the present home 
and built the store.  He owned 160 acres of land, and built all the
houses in the little town of Coelleda.  Mr. Gerhardt served four years
as justice of the peace in Benton county, and was a Republican in 
politics.  He was a member of the Lutheran church, while Mrs. Gerhardt
is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.

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