Sarah Wallis

[1] In 1851 a local newspaper reported that Talbot Green was in fact Paul Geddes, a married man wanted for bank fraud in Pennsylvania.

(Still, Green Street, in San Francisco remains named for him, as he was a friend of the influential William Davis Merry Howard.

[1] Her son by Green was adopted by her new husband and took the name Talbot H. Wallis; he was later to become the tenth California State Librarian.

[3] In 1856 she acquired the title to Mayfield Farm, 250 acres, in what is now southern Palo Alto and she and her husband settled there, built a large home,[4] and had several more children.

Both became staunch supporters of women's suffrage hosting meetings at her farm including one for Elizabeth Cady Stanton when she toured the west.