Founder’s tombstone returns to Wallace

Columnist Doug Clark/SR reports:

With all due respect to Thomas Wolfe, it appears you can go home again.

Sort of.

Consider the strange case of Col. William Ross Wallace, who has returned to the North Idaho town he founded – in the form of his tombstone.

“William R. Wallace,” reads the carved gray granite marker under a crest. “Died Nov. 16, 1901. Aged 67 years. A native of Kentucky.”

No doubt about it, observed Jamie Baker, “Wallace should be in Wallace. He was the very first to come and try to get rich up here. Wallace was the first to do it.”

The decorated Civil War veteran also left Wallace with some pretty hard feelings, but I’m getting ahead of myself. More here.