 Uncle Henry's father, John Wallace, was an Ulster Scots immigrant from the village Kilrea in County Londonderry, Ireland who arrived in Philadelphia in 1823.May (née Broadhead) was born in New York City but was raised by an aunt in Muscatine, Iowa after the death of her parents.Wallace's family moved to Ames, Iowa, in 1892 and to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1896.