Moses Wallens was born around 1832 in New Hampshire to John and Lydia Wallens. He eventually moved to Bennington, Vermont, and he married Derexa Camp. They had no children of their own, but he helped raise her four children from a previous marriage. He worked as a laborer, and by 1860, he owned $200 of real estate and $50 of personal property. A decade later, he owned $1,600 of real estate and $200 of personal property. His wife died in the late 1800s. In the 1880s, he reportedly suffered a “shock which left one side of his body paralyzed so that he [was] unable to do manual labor.” By 1900, he was living in his step-daughter Nancy’s household in Bennington. He died of hemiplegia in Bennington in October 1913.

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