Daniel H. Wallace, 1821-1894
Banker and Judge
 
Originally buried in Porter Cemetery; moved to Greenwood 1917

(Grave marker photo courtesy of Donna L. Carr)

Daniel Hendrickson Wallace was born November 3, 1821, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The son of Robert James Wallace and Margaret Hendrickson, he came from a large family—eight brothers and two sisters.
 
In 1845, he wed Mary Jane Elder and embarked upon domestic life. Career advancement came gradually. In 1850, he was working as a jailer in his home town of Beaver. However, by 1860, he was a banker in New Castle, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, with personal property worth $10,000.
 
Although he was already a successful businessman and nearly forty years old, Wallace enlisted in the 76th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on August 28, 1861. He soon achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel and was present at the capture of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, on April 11, 1862. Shortly after, he was severely injured in a fall from a horse and was discharged as incapacitated on August 19, 1862. Thereafter, he returned home and resumed his lucrative banking practice.
 
Wallace and his wife Mary Jane had six children while residing in New Castle, two of whom died in early childhood. Mary Jane herself passed away in July, 1867, after which Wallace married Rebecca Cunningham, with whom he had four more children. By 1870, his personal fortune had reached $25,000.
 
Throughout his career, Wallace maintained contacts with fellow Republicans in Washington, D. C. and, in 1885, he accepted an appointment as receiver of the U.S. Land Office in Tucson, Arizona. Although he lost his patronage post in the next general election, he then moved to Phoenix where he practiced land law and became a judge. His widowed daughter Ada acted as his legal assistant.
 
Having already applied for a disability pension on the basis of his 1862 injury, Wallace joined the John Wren Owen GAR post. He died on January 14, 1894, of pneumonia and a liver abscess. Initially buried in Porter Cemetery, his remains were moved to Greenwood in 1917.
 
The judge’s daughter, Ada Wallace Irvin, achieved local prominence as a member of the Woman’s Relief Corps, an auxiliary to the G.A.R. When she died in 1923, she was buried in the same plot in Greenwood.
 
© 2026 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 28 January 2026.

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Ivy H. Cox, 1825-1898 
Methodist Minister and Judge
 
Buried in City/Loosley Cemetery, Block 6, Lot 10

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Ivy Henderson Cox was born December 29, 1825, in Dungannon, Scott County, Virginia. He was the son of James Longhollow Cox and Nancy Finney, originally of Russell County, Virginia.
 
Upon graduating from William and Mary College, Ivy Cox was ordained a minister. He then went to Texas where he was eventually elected the presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal circuit. He married Mary Jane Cook of Alabama on July 5, 1852, in Fayette County, Texas. They had eight children, the first six born in Texas and the last two in California.
 
Notwithstanding that he was a family man approaching the age of forty, Ivy Cox felt it his duty to serve during the Civil War. Accordingly, he became a chaplain in the 8th Texas Infantry (Hobby’s Regiment), C.S.A. The regiment was charged with defending the seacoast installations at Galveston and Port Bolivar. Cox’s military career ended in May 1864 when he took an extended leave and did not return to his regiment.
 
After the war, the Coxes moved to California. By 1877, they were in Florence, Arizona. Shortly thereafter, they came to Phoenix. The federal census of 1880 records Cox as a lawyer but, because he was also a minister, he continued to officiate at weddings. Cox was said to be a pure soul, a lover of justice, but quite tolerant in public matters. He served on County Board of Supervisors from 1879 to 1880 and again in 1895. He also became a judge.  
 
By the time they arrived in Phoenix, most of the Cox children had reached adulthood. Sons Melancthon and William went into the construction business, while Franklin Ivy became an attorney for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The five Cox daughters married into local families. Most of them were still living In the Ivy Cox household in 1880.
 
Judge Cox’s wife Mary Jane died 29 December 1886 and was buried in Loosley Cemetery. Sometime thereafter, Cox went to Quitman, Texas to marry a woman named Ann who survived him.
 
The last years of Judge Cox’s life were spent on the family ranch four miles north of Phoenix, where he engaged in growing fruit and keeping bees. Late in 1898, he was living at the residence of Joseph DuPree Reed. He died there on December 20, 1898, of congestion of the brain and paralysis. He was buried in Loosley Cemetery next to his first wife.
 
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Manuel Harvey Reno, 1831-1899
Kentucky Judge
 
Buried in the A. O. U. W. Cemetery, Block 18, Lot 4, Grave 2

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​Pioneers’ Cemetery Association, Inc.)

Manuel H. Reno was born January 28, 1831, in Ballard County, Kentucky. He was one of nine children belonging to Richard D. Reno and Celia Bohannon, a farming couple. The federal census of 1850 suggests that the Renos had moved to Kentucky around 1830 from Alabama.
 
Around 1855, Reno married Ann D. Ellis in Ballard County, Kentucky. Their first child, a daughter named Mary Belle, was born on March 23, 1856. She was followed quickly by Susan Theodocia, born 1857, William Richard, born 1858, and Maggie, born 1862.
 
No evidence has been found that Reno was ever in the Confederate army. Kentucky being a border state, it is possible that his sentiments aligned with the Union. He seems to have remained a small farmer throughout the war. 
 
By 1880, the Renos were farming in Clinton, Hickman County, Kentucky. Although there is no mention of where he read law, Reno eventually became a county judge in Kentucky.
 
The Renos retired to Phoenix around 1892. Although Reno doesn’t seem to have practiced law in Arizona, he was active in local politics. Originally a member of the Grange Party, he later became a member of the Populist Party which supported Buckey O’Neill’s short-lived political career.
 
In 1894, Reno launched an Arizona chapter of the Child’s Aid Society, which seems to have been an insurance company benefitting the children of deceased members when they came into their majority by providing them with a small fund to get a start in life. In an era when fathers could not necessarily count on living long enough to see their children grow up, this might have been an attractive option.
 
Reno was an officer of the Hopeton Baptist Church and taught Sunday school there.
 
He died on December 11, 1899, of valvular heart disease. After a funeral sermon preached by Rev. Lewis Halsey of the Baptist Church, he was buried in Ancient Order of United Workmen Cemetery. 
 
At the time of Reno’s death, his eldest daughter, Mary Belle, was teaching school at the Sacaton Indian Agency. Although she had married James Zimmerman in Kentucky in 1883, she may have been a widow by 1899.
 
© 2025 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 24 November 2025.

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