Wallace, Helen, 1896-1971

Bess Wallace with a group of her relatives from Platte City, Missouri. From left to right: George Wallace, Gates Wells, unidentified, W.S. Wells, Louise Wells, William Strother Wells, Helen Wallace, John Wallace, Bess Wallace. From: Truman home, an album entitled "Postal Souvenirs."

Members of the Gates and Wallace families gather for the funeral of George Porterfield Gates. From left to right: Oscar Wells, George Wallace, Helen Wallace, John Wallace, Bob Wells, Louise Wells, Frank Wallace, Bess Wallace, Gates Wells, Maud Gates Wells, Fred Wallace, Frank Gates.

Three-quarter length, studio portrait of Helen Wallace, daughter of Myra Gates (Bess Truman's aunt)and Theodore Boulware Wallace. She has one hand on her hip and the other at her throat and is wearing a filmy evening dress. The photo was concealed in a frame underneath a portrait of her father, Theodoric Boulware Wallace. (See also 2009-1585 and 1619.) From: Truman Home.

Helen Wallace, cousin of Bess Truman, as an older woman, seated at a desk. From: Found in Research Room area.

Three-quarter length studio portrait of possibly Helen Wallace (cousin of Bess Truman), looking fashionable in a fur cape and hat. Her body is sideways to the camera, but her face is toward the front. From: Truman Home.

Portrait of Helen Wallace as a young woman (Bess Truman's cousin). From: Truman home.

A group of Wallace, Gates, and Wells children sit on the porch of a large stone house identified only as 115 Waldron Ave., Kansas City, Missouri. Left to right (standing) are: Maud Louise Gates, George Wallace, and Bess Wallace. Left to right (sitting) are Louise Wells, Helen Wallace, John Wallace, Oscar Wells, and Fred Wallace. (See also 82-163-2.) From: John Elliott.

Studio portrait of Helen Wallace as an infant. Helen Wallace, Bess Truman's cousin from Kansas City, is the child of Myra Gates Wallace, Madge Gates' sister, who married Theodore Boulware Wallace. From: John Elliott

Standing in front of the Gates/Wallace house at 219 N. Delaware, Independence, Missouri, are, left to right: (First row) Helen Wallace, Gates Wells, and Louise Wells; (Second row) Frank Wallace, George Wallace, and Bess Wallace (Bess and her brothers). The other children are their cousins. Bess and Frank are probably in their teens; the others are much younger. From: John Elliott (restricted at request of donor)

Left to right: George Wallace, Helen Wallace, and Maud Louise Wells sit on the steps of the front porch of the George Porterfield Gates home at 219 N. Delaware, Independence Missouri. George Wallace is Bess Wallace's brother. Helen Wallace is the child of Myra Gates Wallace, Madge Gates' sister, and Maud Louise Wells is the daughter of Maud Gates Wells, Madge Gates' other sister. From: John Elliott.