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From: Elborn Mendenhall <>
Subject: Re: [PACE] Blair-Pace connection in Pittsylvania co, VA
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:19:58 -0500
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At 02:01 PM 4/11/2008, you wrote:

>The following rather lengthy exchange may be of interest to some. I find one
>statement confusing: "Edward Blair of Goochland Co., VA was the father of
>one Mary Pace who married Henry Brown Blair." Does the sender mean
>father-in-law? I will ask.

I deleted the rest of the message, however, my Pace line is in
Edmonson County, Kentucky, and the following is a quote from:

"Sketches In Edmonson County History" by Charles E. WHITTLE published
in the "Edmonson News" on Thursday, April 14, 1955 read: "Other Early
Settlers While the BLAIRs were settling on Buffalo, others
followed into this forbidden land. The HOUCHIN's and the DOYEL's
crossed Green River to live beside them; the MEREDITH's from across
Nolin came in the SANDERS' pushed into the very heart of the Forks;
and Pleas PACE built his hickory cabin where he pleased.* West of
Nolin were the VANMETER's, the BROOKs', the LOGAN's, the SKAGGS' and
the HAZELIP's; while beyond Bear Creek and in the lowlands along Big
Reedy were the DURBIN's, the NASHes, the MILLER's, the WOOSLEY's and
the DACIS'.** Far across the knobs to the esat a few settlements
had been made along the unimproved dirt road leading from Louisville
and Lexington to Nashville in the valleys between the River were a
few others. The main clain of settlements, however, ranged along
the hills overlooking the River. The DICUS' and the WEBB's moved in
on Indian Creek; below them Mastin ELMORE kept a ferry at the Betty
Rock; and below him lived the RHOADS'. The ALEXANDERs's and LINDSEY's
settled within the morning shadows of Indian Hill, and stealing the
march on their neighbors, erected a rude schoolhouse, --- probably
the first within the present confines of Edmonson County.*** *The
hickory cabin, a well-known landmark in 1826, still stands on the
Mammoth Cave Road southeast of Stockholm. Mrs. Susan BLAIR is
authority for saying that it was built by Pleas PACE. **A manuscript
on the early history of the Bee Spring country, prepared by J. C.
VANMETER and loaned the author by him, has been very valuable in
tracing the early families of that section. Dr. C. HUFF gathered
valuable information for the author concerning the early settlers on
Big Reedy. ***See will of Reuben ALEXANDER in Warren County Court
Clerk's Office."

My gggrandmother Catherine Hawkins married a Benjamin Pace born 1801
in Virginia, died in 1859 in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Catherine
Hawkins had a pension from her son Presley Pace who died in Tennessee
in the Civil War. Catherine is buried in the Woosley-Pace cemetery
which is on the Mammoth Cave Park land, and according to Mr. Whittle
this cemetery it is very hard to get into this cemetery. Catherine
died in 1896. I have been working on this line off and on for
about 5 - 7 years. I started working on it before the Pace Society
meeting in Williamsburg, which my wife and I attended. I still do
not have Proof of Benjamin's parents; however, some one with the
wrong death date for Benjamin Pace did a DNA test, which shows that
this line goes back to John of Middlesex. I had come computer
problems and lost a bunch of emails including the information about
the DNA. I did send some of this information to Lois Long
Carey within the last two years. Can someone help me get this
information again?

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