Forgotten Story - The Wallace Murders of 1910

The old Hog Mountain Cemetery is a bulging triangle of land in the shadow of a cell phone tower, overlooking an animal hospital and Pizza Hut, an ancient patch of modern day Dacula buffered from commerce by two busy roads. On a recent afternoon, country music wafted in from a neighboring auto service garage, a pristine October sky overhead. The grounds themselves lay quiet, like an afterthought.

In the heart of the cemetery stands the quartz obelisk that is J.D. Wallace's tombstone. It marks the resting place of a prosperous Lawrenceville merchant and politician who, a century ago, supplied a fledgling Gwinnett County with groceries. An observer could be puzzled, then, by Wallace's epitaph: "Death cannot come to him untimely who is fit to die."

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