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Subject: [PACE-L] Alsey Pace in Arkansas
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 21:39:37 EDT


I am fairly certain that the Alsey Pace who purchased land in Benton Co, AR
on 3/10/1843 is Edmund Alsey Pace, the brother of my gg grandfather,
Christopher Stump Pace. He purchased land in Benton Co. again in 1862 and
1875 as Edmond A. Pace.
Christopher Stump Pace was the first Pace to arrive in AR, settling along the
White River in Benton Co. about 1835. This is a guess but I suspect that his
brother followed or accompanied him which could explain Alsey being on the
Benton Co. tax list for 1837 and 1838. If so, he must have returned to
Montgomery Co, TN to marry as he married Margaret Hogan there in 1838 and
they left TN for KY and then MO in 1841, finally arriving in Benton Co, AR in
1843 where their first child was born and they obtained the land grant in
that same year. Edmund Alsey went back and forth between AR and MO a few
times.

On the other hand there was a James Dean Pace in Benton Co, AR whose ancestry
seems to be unknown. He may be the James D. who purchased land in Benton Co.
on 2/16/1888 and 6/30/1882. James Dean Pace was supposedly born abt. 1835,
possibly in Giles Co, TN and died 10/8/1906 in Benton Co. Could he be the
son of Alsey Pace and Cassandra Dean?
Perhaps there are some descendants of Edmund Alsey Pace who know whether or
not he did actually go with his brother to AR in the 1830's. If not then
your Alsey Pace would probably be the only other possibility that I know of
to explain the 1837-38 tax listing of Alsey.
Gordon W. Pace

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