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From: "Pamela Plymale" <>
Subject: Re: [PACE] Blair-Pace connection in Pittsylvania co, VA
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:22:37 -0700
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I also have a gg-grandmother by the name of "Catherine B. Hawkins" born
1811 in Kentucky and died 1896 in Pettis Co. La Monte, MO. She was married
to a Benjamin Pace born 1801/02 in VA. and died 1859/60 in Kentucky. Their
son Jehu Dyer (various spellings) Pace and his second wife Mary Jane Calvert
had a daughter Beulah Roxie Pace who was married to a Phynes Steward Craig.
This was Phynes' second marriage and he and Beulah had just two children,
Lucille and Calvert. Beulah had only one sibling, a brother named Walter
Earl Pace. I have a copy of Jehu Dyer Pace death cert. which Walter E. Pace
signed and Walter named Jehu' father as "Benjamin Pace" and "Katin Hawkins"
as Jehu' mother.

I am the daughter of Calvert Steward Craig, my name is Pamela Craig
Plymale. I sure hope we can get some information on the Missouri Pace'.

>
>>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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