Annie Winnifred Wallace ²

   Another name for Annie was Winifred Wallace.

  Birth Notes:

Rootsweb gives her birthplace as Pilkington Township, but her obituary has Ponsonby.

  Death Notes:

Obituary:
WHITEHALL, Wis. (Special) -- Mrs. Albert Erickson, 67, former matron of Trempealeau County Hospital, died at 12:20 this morning at Whitehall Community Hospital. She had been ill about three months with a heart condition.
The former Winifred Wallace, she was born March 29, 1892, at Ponsonby, Ontario, Canada, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Wallace.
She moved with her family to Drayton, N.D., in 1808 and was graduated from Drayton High School and the Valley City, N.D., State College.
She taught two years at Calvin, N.D., and two years at Willow City, N.D., before her marriage Aug. 31, 1919, at St. Paul. She taught with her husband four years at Coluymbus, N.D., until they moved in 1924 to Fuller Coulee, Town of Pigeon.
The couple operated a farm there until 1938 when they took over a Whitehall hotel. They returned to the farm in 1944 and were elected superintendent and matron of Trempealeau County Hospital in October 1949.
Mr. Erickson died in October 1958 and Mrs. Erickson continued as matron until her retirement March 1, 1959. She then lived with a daughter in rural Osseo and traveled.
Mrs. Erickson in 1938 received the annual Theodora Youmans award for outstanding farm leadership in Wisconsin. She was the first president of the State Association of Homemakers, now the Home Demonstration Council, and first president of Trempealeau County Homemakers when it was organized about 30 years ago.
Mrs. Erickson is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Obert (Marjorie) lundberg, rural Osseo; three grandsons; two brothers, Hary, Austin, Tex., and Russell, Lakeside, Mont., and two sisters, Mrs. Maude Mayers, Gladstone, Manitoba, Canada, and Florence, Winnipeg, Canada.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Pigeon Creek Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pigeon Falls. The Rev. E. B. Christophersen will officiate with burial in the church cemetery.
Friends may call at Hagen Funeral Home, Pigeon Falls, Monday afternoon and evening and at the church three hours before services.

  Burial Notes:

Epitaph:
WINIFRED ERICKSON
MAR. 19, 1892
NOV. 13, 1959

  Noted events in her life were:

• Moved: from Canada, 1898, Drayton, Pembina, Dakota Territory (North Dakota), United States.

• Census: U.S, 22 Jun 1900, Drayton, Pembina, North Dakota, United States. ⁵ Household:
Benson J. Wallace, head, W, M, Feb 1864, 36, M, 11, Canada Sc, Scotland, England, imm. 1898, butcher
Susan Wallace, wife, W, F, 1864, 36, M, 11, Canada Eng, England, England, imm. 1899
Florence L. Wallace, daughter, W, F, Dec 1890, 9, S, Canada Sc, 1899, at school
Annie W. Wallace, daughter, W, F, Mar 1892, 8, S, Canada Sc, 1899, at school
Russel Wallace, son, W, M, Dec 1894, 6, S, Canada Sc, 1899, at school
Henry L. Wallace, son, W, M, Aug 1895, 4, S, Canada Sc, 1899
Maud Wallace, daughter, W, F, May 1897, 3, S, Canada Sc, 1899
George A. Wallace, son, W, M, Feb 1900, 2/12, S, N Dakota

• Census: U.S, 5 May 1910, Drayton, Pembina, North Dakota, United States. ⁶ Household:
Benson J. Wallace, head, M, W, M, 45, Canada, Scotland, England, butcher
Susanna Wallace, wife, F, W, M, 45, Canada, England, England
Florance Wallace, daughter, F, W, S, 19, Canada
Winnfred Wallace, daughter, F, W, S, 17, Canada
Russle Wallace, son, M, W, S, 16, Canada
Henry Wallace, son, M, W, S, 14, Canada
Maud Wallace, daughter, F, W, S, 12, Canada
Jean Wallace, daughter, F, W, S, 9, North Dakota
William McKee, servant, M, W, S, 50, Canada

• Census: North Dakota, 1915, Drayton, Pembina, North Dakota, United States. ⁷ Household:
Benj. J. Wallace
Russell Wallace
Florence Wallace
Winnifred Wallace
Harry Wallace
Maud Wallace
Jean Wallace

Annie married Albert Erickson on 31 Aug 1919 in St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States.¹ (Albert Erickson was born on 13 Jul 1894 in Pigeon Falls, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States, died on 15 Oct 1958 in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States and was buried in Pigeon Creek Lutheran Cemetery, Pigeon Falls, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States ⁸.)