The Denison Hotel Building
500 West Main Street
Carter's Music Store and Pace's Furniture Store on First Floor
Robinson, Frank M., comp. Industrial Denison. [N.p.]: Means-Moore Co., 1901. Page 7

1896 Denison City Directory

Pace, Alford S. Conductor, Katy Railway. Residence 800 West Gandy Street.

1901 Denison City Directory:

Pace, Alfred S., furniture, carpets, house furnishing goods, 502-504 West Main, phone 152-3, residence at 1130 West Gandy. Phone 98-3.

1903 Denison City Directory:

Pace, Alfred S. (Katie R.), furniture 403 W Main; residence 1130 W Gandy.

Residence of A. S. Pace
1130 West Gandy Street.
 Robinson, Frank M., comp. Industrial Denison. [N.p.]: Means-Moore Co., 1901. Page 30

Shawnee OK Herald
31 Dec 1915

There was a large assemblage of sympathizing friends at the funeral of Mr. A. S. Pace held at the home, 404 North Kickapoo, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, thus attesting the popularity of the deceased and the high esteem in which the family is held in this community. Mr. Pace passed away on December 28.

Simplicity marked the service, as it is thought the departed would have wished it. Two hymns were sung by the choir and congregation – "Come Ye Disconsolate" and "Lead Kindly Light." There were a number of beautiful floral offerings.

The funeral was conducted by the Rev. S. H. Babcock, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who used the beautiful ritual of the church, reading the Nineteenth Psalm and an abridgement of the fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians. The text which he chose as the basis of the eulogy was Ecclesiastes 7:1: "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth."

The cortege which followed the remains to the graveside at Fairview was one of imposing proportions. The following friends of the departed acted as pallbearers: S. C. Vinson, J. L. Roebuck, J. S. McIntyre, Edwin Moore, W. L. Chapman and W. Q. Adams.

Albert Gallatin Pace [1825 - 1899], the father of A. S. Pace, was one of the early settlers in North Texas. [His mother was Mary Lodusky Hardaway Pace (1830 - 1865).] The son was born in Greenville on March 4, 1862, growing to manhood in North Texas.

For a number of years, Mr. A. S. Pace was in the railroad service for the M.K. & T., retiring after a lengthy service as conductor. Though he retired a good many years ago, he continued to affiliate with the trainmen's organization, serving at the time of his death as secretary of the Shawnee Division of the C.R.C. which has a membership of more than sixty conductors.

After retiring from the railroad, he engaged in the furniture business in Denison. Selling out there twelve years ago [1903], he located in Shawnee where ever since he has been one of the city's leading furniture merchants. Until last May [1915] his business was conducted under the name of Pace Furniture Company. At that time, a consolidation was effected with the Moore Bros. Furniture Company, the business being incorporated under the name of the Moore-Pace Furniture Company.

A. S. Pace, Furniture and Carpets
502 & 504 Main Street
Robinson, Frank M., comp. Industrial Denison. [N.p.]: Means-Moore Co., 1901. Page 83.
The official address was 502-504 West Main Street, Denison, Texas

Mr. Pace was an honored member of the Masonic order, a zealous member of the First M.E. Church, South, in which he was a steward and teacher in the Sunday School. For three years he was treasurer of the City Board of Education.

Twenty-six years ago, Mr. Pace was married to Miss Katie Roberta Sampson [1872 - 1927], and they reared a charming family consisting of one daughter, Miss Lucile, and four sons, Rolla, Bryan, Burford, and Clark.

In his business relations he was notably painstaking, safe and conscientious. In all the heat of the intense commercial rivalry that has prevailed in Shawnee's commercial history, no competitor has ever been heard to utter a word of detraction against Mr. A. S. Pace. Throughout all his dealings in all his daily life, Mr. Pace was the modest, quiet, thoughtful, well-poised gentlemen at all times, patient and charitable but firm and unswerving on the side of right. Despite his innate modesty, the force of Mr. Pace's fine personality made him a place among the leading citizens of Shawnee.

There survive Mr. Pace, one brother, and two sisters: Mr. J. E. Pace of Mangum, Okla; Mrs. Mattie Pace Perkins of Greenville, Tex., and Mrs. Eppie Pace Hutchings of Mt. Pleasant, Tex. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Pace and Mrs. Perkins are here with the family in the hour of bereavement.

Others attending the funeral from out-of-town are: Mr. J. C. Pace of Mangum; Mr. Fred Sampson and Mrs. J. L. Guest of Duncan, Okla.; Mr. W. R. Johnson of Greenville, Tex. and Mrs. D. B. Bradshaw of Bokchito, Okla.