JAMES WILLIS PACE
James
Willis Pace, b ca 1840 in Newton, Mississippi, d 1921 in Falls County, Texas and
buried there in Hoolia Cemetery - was a son of James Dempsey and Amelia Lucy
(Gregory) Pace. James Willis and three brothers served in the Confederate States
Army: John Pace was killed at Fredericksburg, Virginia; William J. Pace was
wounded at the Battle of the Wilder- ness - both in Newton Riflemen, 13th
Mississippi Regiment; and James Willis Pace served in Company E, Parron's
Battalion, Ferguson's Calvary - fighting in Mississippi; Rome, Georgia; and was
in Atlanta, Georgia during the "burning" of that city on July 22, 1864. There
was constant firing for six weeks, where 160 confederates were buried in one
trench. James Willis Pace surrendered at the end of the Civil War at Macon,
Mississippi.
After
the war, James Willis Pace was married to Sarah Jane McLendon, b ca 1850, d ca
1884 in Bell County, Texas. James Willis moved his family into Bell County, as
did his surviving siblings, where he and Sarah Jane lived until her death. James
Willis and Sarah Jane (McLendon) Pace had eleven children:
Ida Jane
Pace, b May 27, 1866 - married December 28, 1884 to George Alfred Bufkin.
Nancy
Ella Pace, b September 28, 1867 - married December 22, 1896 to Francis Marion
Logan.
William
John ("Jack") Pace, b February 21, 1869 - married September 29, 1898 to Ethel
Chamberlain, b in the Blue Ridge Community of Falls County, Texas - a daughter
of Angelo Ghiberti and Sarah (Harlan) Chamberlain. They had five children.
"Jack" was a Baptist minister.
Mary
Emma Pace, b August 13, 1870 - died young.
Enola
("Dora") Pace, b September 7, 1871 - married Ben Hamilton, and had
four children.
James
McLendon Pace, b July 22, 1874 - died young.
Martha
Adeline Pace, b February 11, 1876-married September 8, 1907 to Joseph F. Hood,
and had no children.
Lewis
Dempsey Pace, b December 28, 1877 - married Ollie Lamb, and had one
child.
Walter
Lee Pace - a twin, b February 19, 1880- married first to Ola Hay - a daughter of
George Washington and Ruth (Davis) Hay. He served as Falls County Tax Assesor
for one term; had five children; and married second to Harriett Thompson and had
no issue.
Robert
Oscar Pace - a twin, b February 19, 1880 - married Bertha Daudle, and had two
children.
Jesse Freeman Pace, b
April 15, 1882 - married September 9, 1903 to
Lena King, and had five children.
After the
death of Sarah Jane (McLendon) Pace in Bell County, Texas, James Willis Pace
married in Bell County secondly to Martha L. Roberts, and moved to the Cego area
of Falls County, Texas in 1889. He and Martha were the parents of three
children:
Carl
Ernest Pace, b March 2, 1888 - married February 20, 1909 to Jennie McKee - a
daughter of William McKee of Cego, who was a nephew of Joseph Summerlin Bentley.
They had four children.
Sarah
Jane ("Sallie") Pace, b December 17, 1889 in Falls County, Texas who married
Fieldon Oras Bentley.
Lannus Pace, b January 19, 1892 in Falls County, Texas who married
Virgie Viola Higgins, and had six children.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for
printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 337 column 2 and page 338 column 1.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.
CORRECTION
Submitted by Sharon Hardcastle Benson, great-great granddaughter of James
Willis Pace
James Willis Pace, son of James Dempsey
Pace and Amelia Lucy Gregory, b 21 Feb. 1846 in Newton Co., Miss., d Mar. 1921
in Eddy, Texas. Enlisted in Confederate Army Dec. 1863 at Newton, Miss.,
Co. E. Parron's Bat., Ferguson's Cav. Surrendered at Macon when Lee
surrendered. He said that he was never seriously wounded, but his thumb
was blistered by a minnie ball while he slept.