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From: "Betty A. Pace" <>
Subject: Re: [PACE-L] Alsey Pace in Arkansas
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:24:33 +0000


Thanks, Gordon.
You are probably correct that the 1843 land purchase was your Edmund
Alsey Pace, brother of your Christopher Stump Pace I guess the Alsey on
the 1837 & 1838 tax lists would be your Edmund Alsey Pace also.

In searching the AR GenWeb Archives(197 hits), I came upon this entry on
biographies of early Arkansas settlers (I didn't get the date of the
book) and it mentioned Christopher S. Pace but not an Alsey:. I do
notice some discrepancy in the wife of Christopher S. Pace, I think.
Also one of the deceased sons is supposed to be a James O. Pace--could
the James D. Pace of the land listing be a misreading of the old
handwritten records? Incidentally, I can't find a middle initial in any
of my line of Paces, at least not until the next generation.

"Benton County Biographies
John H. Pace, a resident of Batie Township, was born in Tennessee, April
18,
1831, and is the son of Christopher S. and Margaret Maria (Woods) Pace.
The
father was born in Tennessee, and at the age of twenty married Miss
Woods, who
was in her fifteenth year. To this union were born eleven children, five
now
living: John H., Mrs. Sarah Walker, Mrs. Margaret S. (Black) Woods,
Milton A.
and Mrs. Florence Hardy. Those deceased were named William C., Newton B.,
James
O., Thomas J., Alfred and Mrs. Nancy Williams. Christopher S. Pace
followed
farming the principal part of his life, but in connection ran an old
fashioned
whip-saw, and also a ferry boat. He moved from Tennessee to Arkansas
about 1835,
settled three miles south of Bentonville, where he only remained for a
year,
going from there to Sugar Creek, where he farmed for two or three years.
He then
moved to different places, but at last settled on the farm where his son,
John
H., now lives. Here he remained until 1862 or 1863, when he moved to
afarm three
miles south of Bentonville, where he remained until the close of the war.
He
then moved to Bentonville, where he continued to live until a year ago,
when he
returned to the old home place, and there he and his wife have since
lived.
After coming to Arkansas John H. Pace lived with his father until
twenty-eight
years of age, and received a fair education during that time. At the age
of
twenty-two he went to Austin, Tex., driving five yoke of oxen, with a
load of
apples. Here he remained one year, and while there worked for wages on a
farm.
He then returned to his home in Arkansas, and there remained until his
marriage
with Miss Florence L. Hayden, daughter of Clement and Lucy (Fullerton)
Hayden,
who were natives of Maine and Tennessee, respectively. Miss Hayden was
but
sixteen years old when she married Mr. Pace, and their union resulted in
the
birth of seven children, six now living: Mrs. Lura J. Phillips, Elbert
Newton,
Maggie, Milton, Florence and Olive. The one deceased was named Clemmie.
After
marriage Mr. Pace lived on his father's farm, where he remained until the

breaking out of the war, when Mrs. Pace went to Bentonville, and Mr. Pace

enlisted in Company F, Brooks' Regiment, Confederate army. During his
time of
service he was in only two battles of importance, Prairie Grove and
Jenkins'
Ferry. He served three years and at the close of the war his company
surrendered
at Little Rock, and he returned to his home, where he engaged in tilling
the
soil on his present farm. The country was very sparsely settled when Mr.
Pace
first moved to Benton County, there being no schools, no churches, and
Bentonville only a small hamlet. His father was one of the first grand
jurors of
the county, and the only one now living. Mr. Pace was constable of his
township
for two years, and was also deputy sheriff. He is a stanch Democrat in
politics,
having voted that ticket from his majority down to President Cleveland.
He has a
[p.877] farm of 100 acres, fifty-five being under cultivation. Mr. and
Mrs. Pace
are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church."

Thanks so much for your help. I'll keep looking.

Betty Pace

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 21:39:37 EDT writes:
> 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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