tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87009260643544044132024-02-20T23:19:21.780-05:00The Naces of Lithia. . . and their descendants and ancestors in Botetourt County, Virginia. My maternal ancestors were Naces who lived in Lithia and Buchanan. This blog will chronicle what I've learned about them. Perhaps it will help preserve some family history.Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-90948147944754382492022-01-17T13:53:00.002-05:002022-01-17T13:53:56.531-05:00Betsy Nace and Isaac Nofsinger<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Members of the Nace family often married members of the Noffsinger—also spelled Nofsinger and Noftsinger—family. For instance, my great-grandfather, <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/08/john-c-nace.html" target="_blank">John Christian Nace</a> (1828-1928) married Mary Ann Noffsinger (1828-1898), the daughter of Abraham Noffsinger (1797-1887). Abraham Noffsinger was the son of Samuel Noffsinger (1870-1839). </span>Another son of Samuel Noffsinger was Isaac Nofsinger (1799-1880).<br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Isaac Nofsinger (my 3rd-great-granduncle) married Elizabeth M. "Betsy" Nace (1805-1881), daughter of my 4th great-grandfather, John Christian Nace (1760-1855), and thus my </span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">3rd-great-grandaunt. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Pictures of their gravestones from Findagrave.] </span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFvq-CbOe3Nw4AM094amltoWR1zvJRruva7WRcZJBp68yT37U8MMIpszHqu8PneyYBfYbCgNkx-bcG8vc_R8DBvIfLk0-kg2OlOeVS6tNHsJjPy8j3zoPYwgpQKeZkl8GEUBxXKSR6c5vqDY3Yumk_QM552ZEO5d5vXsC9-ir4NTUnIbZf08sHeAcP=s2496" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2496" data-original-width="1664" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFvq-CbOe3Nw4AM094amltoWR1zvJRruva7WRcZJBp68yT37U8MMIpszHqu8PneyYBfYbCgNkx-bcG8vc_R8DBvIfLk0-kg2OlOeVS6tNHsJjPy8j3zoPYwgpQKeZkl8GEUBxXKSR6c5vqDY3Yumk_QM552ZEO5d5vXsC9-ir4NTUnIbZf08sHeAcP=w158-h238" width="158" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgK1WD-9XvFEGXADhJKa_9e-SDfqjzZQuL91a0NCT5SGWPsbW4BT-MuCbCf4oxLRtyfa1uzl-EqgXAb-IrFl_QyaDJasisp3TzIQqZEg3K6vMvrsDDCp1MJfzHUTFFTmURoInOnUThzp1fVlH9VC_CgGMgpOSDJNLRRoT5usu6GMtpweYer8zhyNAB8=s2496" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2496" data-original-width="1664" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgK1WD-9XvFEGXADhJKa_9e-SDfqjzZQuL91a0NCT5SGWPsbW4BT-MuCbCf4oxLRtyfa1uzl-EqgXAb-IrFl_QyaDJasisp3TzIQqZEg3K6vMvrsDDCp1MJfzHUTFFTmURoInOnUThzp1fVlH9VC_CgGMgpOSDJNLRRoT5usu6GMtpweYer8zhyNAB8=w156-h234" width="156" /></a></span></div></div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Isaac and Betsy Nofsinger had the following children: <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103310097/george-lewis-nofsinger" target="_blank">George Lewis</a> (1828-1901); Mary C. (1830-1884); Edwin M. (1833-1906); <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15872182/william-james-noftsinger" target="_blank">William James</a> (1834-1895), a private in the Botetourt Light Artillery; <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15872165/robert-clifton-noftsinger" target="_blank">Robert Clifton</a> (1837-1906), who served in Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery, Artillery Battalion, Dept. of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee, C.S.A.; Margaret Hester (1839-1936); and John Samuel (1846-1856).<br /></span><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">Things did not go well for some of Isaac and Betsy’s children. Their youngest son, <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125854744/john-samuel-nofsinger" target="_blank">John Samuel</a>, died when he was only ten. Two sons went to war, and—while both returned—one suffered the ill effects for decades. Meanwhile, in 1864, General Hunter’s raid burned much of Buchanan, including <a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=67253" target="_blank">Mount Joy</a> plantation, where William Nace had been overseer of the iron mill there. (William Nace died the summer before the raid, and his son John Christian Nace settled the estate during late summer of 1863.) I do not know how close the fires came to Isaac and Betsy, but surely they were affected by the number of Union Troops in the area.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here is the <i>Roanoke Times</i> obituary for Robert Clifton Noftsinger as posted on his Findagrave site: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15872165/robert-clifton-noftsinger:</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Garamond; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Garamond; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #36322d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt;">Mr. R.C. Noftsinger, a well-known citizen of this county, who was living with his son-in-law, Mr. W.R. Styne, near Buchanan, shot himself last Tuesday morning about 6 o'clock, inflicting a wound from the effects of which he died in a few moments.</span><span style="color: #36322d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> He was sixty-nine years of age, and was a Confederate soldier in the War Between the States in 1861-1865.</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> While in service, he received a wound that seriously affected his spine from which he never fully recovered. His mind becoming also involved, he was sent to the Western Lunatic Asylum for treatment, where he remained until thought to be sufficiently recovered to allow him to return home. But within six or seven years he had to be sent back, when after being under treatment for awhile he was again released, and has not been at home for seventeen years. Instead of improving he gradually grew worse, until the trouble finally culminated in the act which ended his life.</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> The deceased was a son of the late Isaac Noftsinger, and a brother of Mrs. J.W. Morgan of this place; was well known in the county, and universally held in high esteem. No reason can be assigned for the rash act, except that of insanity, and a general giving way of health, from long and constant suffering, in both body and mind.</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> His wife had already gone before him, and he leaves behind an only daughter, Mrs. Styne, and a sister, Mrs. Morgan, to mourn his unfortunate death.</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> He was buried on Wednesday, the 7th, 8 p.m. at the home cemetery, in the presence of many friends and neighbors. —</span><i>Roanoke Times</i><span style="background-color: #fafafa; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> November 6, 1906.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Garamond; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">While neither Isaac nor Betsy was alive when their son committed suicide, they lived through many months of his confinement in Western Lunatic Asylum. <br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>They also lived through decades of another son’s confinement at home. Edwin M. (Eddie/Edward), age 17, was listed on the 1850 Federal Census for Botetourt District 8, as a farmer by occupation and as “ idiotic” by condition. In the 1860 census, he was still in his parents’ home and was listed as idiotic and unable to read. In 1870, he was the only child in the home of his 71- and 65-year old parents, but there was a 48-year-old woman (Nancie Goode) and an 11-year-old in the household. In the 1880 census for Buchanan, 80-year-old Isaac—now a retired farmer— and 75-year-old Elizabeth had three servants—Nancy Good (55), George Russel (20), and Edward Mickey (12). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />Isaac died on July 18, 1880, after the census had been taken. Elizabeth died six months later on January 9, 1881. After his parents’ deaths, Edwin was likely looked after by family.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>By the time of the 1900 census, Edwin (age 67) was living with his widowed sister Margaret “Hester Morgan” (61) in the Fincastle district of Botetourt. Hester’s husband, J. W. Morgan had died in 1899. The census indicated Edwin was disabled and insane. Also in the household were Hester’s daughter Lillie (20), Hester’s daughter Ella S. Hannah (23), Ella’s husband Samuel C. Hannah (30), and a servant George Shanks (35). <br /><o:p> <br /></o:p><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62906220/edwin-nofsinger" target="_blank">Edwin</a> died on May 10, 1906—six months before his brother’s suicide. He is buried in the Godwin Cemetery in Fincastle, VA, where his sister <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63036242/margaret-hester-morgan" target="_blank">Margaret</a> Hester Morgan is also buried. <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125854650/isaac-nofsinger" target="_blank">Isaac</a> and <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125854240/elizabeth-m-nofsinger" target="_blank">Betsy</a> are buried in the <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2190233/noftsinger-styne-pico-cemetery" target="_blank">Nofsinger-Styne-Pico Cemetery</a> near Buchanan where many Naces are also buried.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">~</span></o:p></p>Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-29032343436726733552021-06-16T14:23:00.006-04:002022-09-19T16:51:55.451-04:00John Christian Nace: Four Children<p> While <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/08/john-c-nace.html" target="_blank">John Christian Nace (1828-1928)</a> had four children, none of his numerous descendants bear the Nace name. </p><p>He and his wife Mary Ann Noffsinger (1828-1880) had only one son, William Robert Nace (1860-1935) whose living children were <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/09/nace-daughters.html" target="_blank">all female</a>: <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/11/lucy-nace-mays.html" target="_blank">Mary Lucy</a> (1885-1979), <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/blanche-ruble-home-and-children.html" target="_blank">Mattie Blanche</a> (1886-1983), <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/cora-virginia-nace-hunt.html" target="_blank">Cora Virginia</a> (1888-1945), <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/11/annie-pearl-nace.html" target="_blank">Annie Pearl</a> (1890-1911), Ossie Bell (1894-1987), and Zora William (1903-1988). Zora hadn't been born when this 1904 picture was taken.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7OSrHhyeW-6heDdxMU8og89J9X1jpV8NjNuYGMKGl6gvCWD0-B40ZNXfDN1zeJEtDmqFw1WbuUNyjPvfsFS0Xnq-Q7qlZdk83AZj4HBekUTytTYQzFUrCN3VIqfH36FO9G-3AgTZGU8/s640/Naces1902.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="640" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7OSrHhyeW-6heDdxMU8og89J9X1jpV8NjNuYGMKGl6gvCWD0-B40ZNXfDN1zeJEtDmqFw1WbuUNyjPvfsFS0Xnq-Q7qlZdk83AZj4HBekUTytTYQzFUrCN3VIqfH36FO9G-3AgTZGU8/w400-h285/Naces1902.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">John named his son William after his own father, William Nace (1797-1863). Possibly William's middle name Robert came from John's brother Robert or John's great uncle, Robert F. Nace (1802-1884). In the 1800s, many first sons were given their paternal grandfather's first name. John Christian Nace himself was named after his own grandfather, John Christian Nace (1760-1855).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">His first daughter, Hester Elizabeth (1852-1880), probably got her name from John's mother Hester Fringer Nace (1802-1852), Hester Elizabeth married Samuel Huston Lipes, Jr. (1845-1926). Their children were Burk Stolpher (1872-1944), Ella (1876-?), and Otho Graves (1879-1951). After Hester's death, Samuel married again and had several more children.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">John's second daughter was <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124420711/sarah-ann-booze" target="_blank">Sallie Ann Nace</a> (1855-1921), who married Charles Judson Booze (1857-1927). Their children were Edgar Preston (1880-1960) who married Alberta Claire Phillips (1885-1980), Sandy Virgil (1887-1962) who married Mary Emma Smiley (1890-1984), unnamed baby (1882-1882), John Anderson (1883-1885), Mary Rossie (1889-1960) who married Robert Lee Jones (1877-1932), Rosa Ella (1893-1980) who married Marvin Griffin Gross (1894-1970), and Minnie Lee (1896-1989) who married Harry W. West (1895-1963).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">John's third daughter was Mary Ann Frances, also known as "Fanny/Fannie" or "Mollie" (1864-1933). She was likely named for John's wife, Mary Ann Noffsinger. She married George William Delong (1866-1944. They had a son, William Delong, but not much info exists for him. Possibly he died young; he is not on the 1900 census.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mary Ann Frances is the daughter that John lived with after his wife died in 1898. Here is George and Fanny DeLong's house in Lithia: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0zvn7DlViL0_uZxfDBe6abgvd3LXkWDFeDkmZVHsxiDxQFd2ThLG_s0j52UhkAaTQw2J2RLqDtldi30f1sId09Eg3zNT_7S6gBZVZmDhDg7PKK7tmp5NCDp1v5IwlEPYiSzUJdiiNiw/s640/AuntFanniesHouse.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="640" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0zvn7DlViL0_uZxfDBe6abgvd3LXkWDFeDkmZVHsxiDxQFd2ThLG_s0j52UhkAaTQw2J2RLqDtldi30f1sId09Eg3zNT_7S6gBZVZmDhDg7PKK7tmp5NCDp1v5IwlEPYiSzUJdiiNiw/w400-h319/AuntFanniesHouse.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Picture taken in mid-1960s</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">John was listed on the 1900 Buchanan/Botetourt census as father-in-law to head of the household, George DeLong and his wife "Molie F":</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4iIxcByueJ6u08DguRUanNXBjVsRO2CA0P0L2eFe1fgS6AOUQ2hXsp9fnzecISdjW3JxtB1-6GeZX8FkVh2A6FfI5eeCXd2MBYue4aM1GPE4X8tEfMJTJk2cq836Yp7noVSUNOlZI4M/s572/1900Buchanancensus.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="572" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4iIxcByueJ6u08DguRUanNXBjVsRO2CA0P0L2eFe1fgS6AOUQ2hXsp9fnzecISdjW3JxtB1-6GeZX8FkVh2A6FfI5eeCXd2MBYue4aM1GPE4X8tEfMJTJk2cq836Yp7noVSUNOlZI4M/w400-h228/1900Buchanancensus.tiff" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Two cousins (probably George's) are also members of the household. Next door is John's son William and his family. On the other side is <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/search?q=Spence+Connection" target="_blank">Lucy Spence</a>, Willliam's mother-in-law. William's house was torn down in the early 1950's, but here is the lot where it once stood. Half of the DeLong house is at left:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVdfenxS2A7ZA7yoJ2Nyo8iNdnJK3dQgo1B0eR2Tjuu-jy1pHJLMejAELe1NbUoOW6U4l_f3R4kHUZq-7qPUZ3R29BRilb5Fzh3UF3NQN2jcq0hSXC28vJRAC6luuT0V-b5dNbBHiIWKA/s640/AuntFannyhouseside.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="640" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVdfenxS2A7ZA7yoJ2Nyo8iNdnJK3dQgo1B0eR2Tjuu-jy1pHJLMejAELe1NbUoOW6U4l_f3R4kHUZq-7qPUZ3R29BRilb5Fzh3UF3NQN2jcq0hSXC28vJRAC6luuT0V-b5dNbBHiIWKA/w400-h319/AuntFannyhouseside.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Despite years of research, I can find no information about any additional children John C. Nace might have had. Therefore, I was surprised not long ago to see some online sites listing two other sons for him: Charles Allen Nace (born in either 1858 or 1862) and Robert "Bob" Calhoun Nace (born in either 1869 or 1873). At least three family trees on Ancestry.com mention one or both in their information about John Christian Nace (but no documentation is provided to prove they are his sons):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHoClN3KzxqmECTKXlLu-cFc52weQM2PP5W8QvfSHHpp8lrnoQOXmFZikmvBHtiqefHbLTmWgNhWaaArzKxPFE994YosNyKknHtau2n-2f9q3sk-_AYsqsMCBBDoD_etOOeGU7mKQwx0/s443/Ancestry+error+1.tiff" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHoClN3KzxqmECTKXlLu-cFc52weQM2PP5W8QvfSHHpp8lrnoQOXmFZikmvBHtiqefHbLTmWgNhWaaArzKxPFE994YosNyKknHtau2n-2f9q3sk-_AYsqsMCBBDoD_etOOeGU7mKQwx0/s320/Ancestry+error+1.tiff" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/112999467/person/352065225438/facts</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI57Hp87aSGTEI7LyV6ml-jGI75-_xxiiRiAKp_1jkSbBsXEf0wMR68ASnhlisIw6rH8pPPDVbYD8c2JIpaBquLqt6XyE4asxguaefwUyYxRLP7C8GYJCArY6io-GstVAAnNz2mAM_0KU/s401/Ancestry+error+2.tiff" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI57Hp87aSGTEI7LyV6ml-jGI75-_xxiiRiAKp_1jkSbBsXEf0wMR68ASnhlisIw6rH8pPPDVbYD8c2JIpaBquLqt6XyE4asxguaefwUyYxRLP7C8GYJCArY6io-GstVAAnNz2mAM_0KU/s320/Ancestry+error+2.tiff" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/120166721/person/210185490073</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMCX0oAk0_S-OTmbYWymxiGlPU75DBmdZm6aqmnRbfqckokjHhUhvBsXiCH-_K4FbkXO48IdYNarNU1FWJoxhfvwjKD_f8b3ld8l5mlI5WivDflItvxbs5YM0KZ_1sK6EV-whNWC_59CQ/s378/Ancestry+error+3.tiff" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMCX0oAk0_S-OTmbYWymxiGlPU75DBmdZm6aqmnRbfqckokjHhUhvBsXiCH-_K4FbkXO48IdYNarNU1FWJoxhfvwjKD_f8b3ld8l5mlI5WivDflItvxbs5YM0KZ_1sK6EV-whNWC_59CQ/s320/Ancestry+error+3.tiff" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/65770830/person/30140900536/facts</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If Bob and Charles were indeed John's sons, they'd likely be on the 1870 census for Buchanan/Botetourt census, but they aren't. Only his four proven children are listed:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gBi1_MiadLFN5SgssAbD_GIpu0DJNa79acTMrn8FxzT4spVH4UxzK4U4IA91c02FSun7wDcz9MSkNAp6Vfo2bMf3I9HGMr-ihpwnB9r3aEiPFf1ilxhJKfUzxZKunrqN0QGq95g3sxc/s674/1870JCN+Buchanan+census.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="161" data-original-width="674" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gBi1_MiadLFN5SgssAbD_GIpu0DJNa79acTMrn8FxzT4spVH4UxzK4U4IA91c02FSun7wDcz9MSkNAp6Vfo2bMf3I9HGMr-ihpwnB9r3aEiPFf1ilxhJKfUzxZKunrqN0QGq95g3sxc/w400-h95/1870JCN+Buchanan+census.tiff" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There is, however, an 8-year-old Charles Nace in a Sizer household though: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdi34rEu6vmCqzlP-NlkQaLdWJklo3LLl8NxztrXWOBiJ31b5-9PQyw-2VlCb4KUUVoEhJRoSnFeXDpgLoserlPd9uyctggQHL1DeUKhN3hafuWF_PAw-eXbUh-7b2GJxo0vslCHWttxI/s807/ChsNace1870+census.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="136" data-original-width="807" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdi34rEu6vmCqzlP-NlkQaLdWJklo3LLl8NxztrXWOBiJ31b5-9PQyw-2VlCb4KUUVoEhJRoSnFeXDpgLoserlPd9uyctggQHL1DeUKhN3hafuWF_PAw-eXbUh-7b2GJxo0vslCHWttxI/w400-h70/ChsNace1870+census.tiff" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But what about the 1880 for Buchanan/Botetourt census? Are they there? Nope. Only his two younger children, William and Fannie, are listed. Hester and Sallie would have married and and in their own homes, though Hester might have died by this time. [Note that Mary Ann Noffsinger Nace's father, Abraham, lives next door]. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDzJ0jAPdywACo3fH23Ra-QvVYQ7QPpsGb9MdVKqL2cXD2ybfSSAEJzlWvQx44doZp7Hdcp2Brro7rl_XUQLWfwbLUWEbAR3Jk9X9sxXPcDgn3xiG4nCANaWPCBAJb0mets4drNBZO-bw/s739/1880+Botetourt+Buchanan+census.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="739" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDzJ0jAPdywACo3fH23Ra-QvVYQ7QPpsGb9MdVKqL2cXD2ybfSSAEJzlWvQx44doZp7Hdcp2Brro7rl_XUQLWfwbLUWEbAR3Jk9X9sxXPcDgn3xiG4nCANaWPCBAJb0mets4drNBZO-bw/w400-h92/1880+Botetourt+Buchanan+census.tiff" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the 1880 Fincastle/Botetourt census, though, there is a "Mary Nace" listed with her two children, Charles (age19) and Robert (age 9):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfNSi9wj89DB5locd2TbOBcc5dDpuNhtUeqlbkJw-A2bjNuW6Z8xmFWd76lEwcSphysmo7qjc7HAbwt616zthUnombL1FWlTcxu6u1c9FydVJAwmbq8FOj3HazZLxGz7ByE-tod_uvac/s909/1880Fincastle+census+-Charles+%2526+Robert.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="909" height="48" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfNSi9wj89DB5locd2TbOBcc5dDpuNhtUeqlbkJw-A2bjNuW6Z8xmFWd76lEwcSphysmo7qjc7HAbwt616zthUnombL1FWlTcxu6u1c9FydVJAwmbq8FOj3HazZLxGz7ByE-tod_uvac/w400-h48/1880Fincastle+census+-Charles+%2526+Robert.tiff" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Probably someone saw the Fincastle census, thought "Mary Nace" was Mary Ann Noffsinger Nace, and erroneously concluded the two boys must be sons of John Christian Nace. This might have been how the error started popping up in Nace family trees on Ancestry.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The error involving one of these boys has also popped up on FindaGrave. <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16165693/bob-nace" target="_blank">Bob Nace's site</a> (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16165693/bob-nace) lists John Christian Nace as his father and Sarah Ann (Sallie), Mary Frances, and William Robert as his siblings. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">UPDATE:
As of mid-November 2021, Bob Nace has been removed as John Christian
Nace's son on Find-a-Grave. Bob no longer appears on John's children's Find-a-Grave sites as their sibling either.</span></b> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjppswc6pS1IPuABLQEashcAzVeHYsLGZ64UZ4kwmIpPp1MAKcq5Ii1_10Ejr4V80JFsSOKvAiSC3xeQ8EgtYoctDEEsZJmnnR0FExAwSSNWHtcUuw7VlSeEKxyiqvP0gcDJR1M6L1rujE/s337/BobNace+Fidagrave1.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjppswc6pS1IPuABLQEashcAzVeHYsLGZ64UZ4kwmIpPp1MAKcq5Ii1_10Ejr4V80JFsSOKvAiSC3xeQ8EgtYoctDEEsZJmnnR0FExAwSSNWHtcUuw7VlSeEKxyiqvP0gcDJR1M6L1rujE/s320/BobNace+Fidagrave1.tiff" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59vgaST8kUfXxK_vOHdfcRsGV0bzsZJmBzcg4yaXfILOA7acxguaG24DeW1TH23yr_rSiLKjY4bUBTRanG6qFc2Nn_1-_u6GbZHk8oSLbIDD1mcPHp7yFgO_48HqNHmfj6hwDm28Jjok/s485/BobNace+Findagrave2.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59vgaST8kUfXxK_vOHdfcRsGV0bzsZJmBzcg4yaXfILOA7acxguaG24DeW1TH23yr_rSiLKjY4bUBTRanG6qFc2Nn_1-_u6GbZHk8oSLbIDD1mcPHp7yFgO_48HqNHmfj6hwDm28Jjok/s320/BobNace+Findagrave2.tiff" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Because someone linked Bob to John Christian Nace's family, Bob is incorrectly listed as a sibling on each of their sites as well. This grievous error could seriously mess up anyone using the FindaGrave sites for genealogical research:</div><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15888957/john-christian-nace" target="_blank">Pvt. John Christian Nace</a>: <span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15888957/john-christian-nace</span><br /><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124420711/sarah-ann-booze" target="_blank">Sarah Ann Nace Booze</a>: <span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124420711/sarah-ann-booze</span><div><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172711115/mary-frances-delong" target="_blank">Mary Frances Nace Delong</a>: <span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172711115/mary-frances-delong</span></div><div><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210661998/william-robert-nace" target="_blank">William Robert Nace</a>: <span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210661998/william-robert-nace</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div>Although Bob lived longer than John Christian Nace, he is not mentioned in John's obituary:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNNxpYvsFC4n47XEJfvxx9AdQ0WBAzzWaeA8Nm9lNjTT2Eftig0WU3t5qXp2zZvuBupRjly4-6QEC2SM9QkE_R91hQqWB5iibpdIq56o_3PrP5haOG_-T37mLZTDpvCDx7fJ67v0h7ALo/s985/JohnNaceOBIT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="668" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNNxpYvsFC4n47XEJfvxx9AdQ0WBAzzWaeA8Nm9lNjTT2Eftig0WU3t5qXp2zZvuBupRjly4-6QEC2SM9QkE_R91hQqWB5iibpdIq56o_3PrP5haOG_-T37mLZTDpvCDx7fJ67v0h7ALo/w271-h400/JohnNaceOBIT.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">We can only hope that whoever added these mistakes to online sources will correct them.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NOTE:</b> Another error. As of September 2022, Family Search was listing an additional daughter, "Clarisa Catherine Nace" (1857/58-1931) but she was the daughter of John A. Nace and Mary E. Craft Nace—not John C and Mary A. (Info from death certificate; Clarisa was born in 1859 and died in 1832.)</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">~</span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Some of my information on the children and grandchildren of John C. Nace comes from a family tree that the late <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2014/04/last-nace-grandchild.html" target="_blank">Bill Gross</a> (Zora's son and the last remaining grandchild of William Robert Nace) researched and gave me about 30 years ago.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">—Becky Mushko</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div> <br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-70603824947797979472021-02-14T12:40:00.003-05:002022-07-16T18:20:18.186-04:00Matthew Nace: Another Discovery<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">I've posted several times about Matthew Harvey Nace, the brother of my great-great grandfather John Christian Nace: "<a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/nace-settlement.html" target="_blank">Nace Settlement</a>" when Matthew wasn't around in 1863 to help settle his father's estate, "<a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2018/07/matthew-harvey-nace.html" target="_blank">Matthew Harvey Nace</a>" when I learned about elaborate tomb he'd built for his wife Evaline who died in 1854, "<a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-i.html" target="_blank">Matthew Nace Mystery, Part I</a>" when I learned he'd absconded with funds from his company and was supposedy sailing to California, and "<a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-ii.html" target="_blank">Matthew Nace Mystery, Part II</a>" when I learned of his further adventures and where he was buried.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's a recap: Matthew marries Evaline in Lynchburg, VA, in 1847. They live in Richmond with their three children until Evaline dies following the birth of a daughter in May 1854. Six weeks later the baby dies. Matthew has an elaborate tomb constructed for Evaline in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. Matthew's mother, Hester Fringer Nace, dies in the summer of 1854. Matthew and his children are living in New York by 1855 and Matthew is apparently involved in several businesses, including Nace & Coe. But in 1856, Matthew has robbed the company, swindled others, and absconded. His former partner, Israel Coe, places notices in several newspapers. Here's one:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHHp-nhyphenhyphenfidAOnVkzh1ebNYleKuqXlZ_F5IZst1JPqipZmRMfPqkjVALKN4poS83T2Hpg9UEKpvdX71lMNEEjpGNtR__OM35ufS16hGhlTgNCK2kS8jGf_mPAMhowLytRBWIwZ_BQhbug/s550/MatthewNace2May1856RichTimesDis.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="550" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHHp-nhyphenhyphenfidAOnVkzh1ebNYleKuqXlZ_F5IZst1JPqipZmRMfPqkjVALKN4poS83T2Hpg9UEKpvdX71lMNEEjpGNtR__OM35ufS16hGhlTgNCK2kS8jGf_mPAMhowLytRBWIwZ_BQhbug/w400-h389/MatthewNace2May1856RichTimesDis.tiff" width="400" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In April 1856, Matthew writes Coe a letter saying he is sailing to California and sending his children to his father (<a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/william-naces-will.html" target="_blank">William Nace</a> in Buchanan, Virginia). However, Matthew doesn't sail and doesn't leave his children with his father. Instead, he marries Ella B. Christian, his late wife's sister, on July 7, 1856, in Vigo, Indiana. By 1857, they are living in Missouri where Matthew is apparently scamming several people. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The Randolph Citizen</i>, 27 May 1859, page 2</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7maZ3MXhdzl5ue8pNUCzw3TtwJFRPb21jzn-BIMUqf8Kbha_LaaqybgLl2Yhtl-9TLOd18XocFEYje1qplVDcYR8QTL7Apm2t4DvdbteXXFc2qZEmPf62SJ-Y89Dyo7z-bpieSezEgQ/s508/RandolphCitizen27May1859MHN1.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="362" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7maZ3MXhdzl5ue8pNUCzw3TtwJFRPb21jzn-BIMUqf8Kbha_LaaqybgLl2Yhtl-9TLOd18XocFEYje1qplVDcYR8QTL7Apm2t4DvdbteXXFc2qZEmPf62SJ-Y89Dyo7z-bpieSezEgQ/w456-h640/RandolphCitizen27May1859MHN1.tiff" width="456" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoV7oPdCRVKh6MZ3NTjGD8ItnAy3VfI7hJ_3Lww1_bQaWEfNsRRKl4ncb2cWwp-xZ8xJiBMy8CiTCC9nVozWzAZtj_4RkfNbNaKlmL4oPDJfZ4gJogvcBIwfcIwgZqwHLdTJbGCbmwfQk/s551/RandolphCitizen27May1859MHN2.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="347" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoV7oPdCRVKh6MZ3NTjGD8ItnAy3VfI7hJ_3Lww1_bQaWEfNsRRKl4ncb2cWwp-xZ8xJiBMy8CiTCC9nVozWzAZtj_4RkfNbNaKlmL4oPDJfZ4gJogvcBIwfcIwgZqwHLdTJbGCbmwfQk/w408-h640/RandolphCitizen27May1859MHN2.tiff" width="408" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I couldn't find the article in the <i>Fulton Telegraph</i>, so I do not know what his "rascalities" include. But it is likely that he has committed many illegal acts, and thus he leaves the area before he is arrested. No doubt he stops by Lecompton, Kansas, where he leaves his children with relatives. His son William M. appears on the 1860 Kansas census as a member of his uncle William's household. One of the girls ends up with her grandmother.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By the 1860s, Matthew (now <i>James Neyce</i>) and Ella are in Oregon, where they have a daughter Berta Lee (born 1867) and a son James McDowell (born and died in 1868). Apparently they were in Oregon from 1860 to 1868. Then they moved again. See "<a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-i.html" target="_blank">Matthew Nace Mystery, Part I</a>" and "<a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-ii.html" target="_blank">Matthew Nace Mystery, Part II</a>" for further details of his adventures.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Eventually, Matthew/James does make it to California, where he lives for several years before he is again involved in <i>rascalities</i> and spends some time in Folson Prison. His prison description matches his description in the above newspaper article—right down to the damaged left eye.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Matthew Harvey Nace—"the Expert Scoundrel"—is, no doubt, the black sheep of the Nace family.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">~</span></div>Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-5468043251946764322020-11-12T09:13:00.004-05:002020-11-12T09:13:25.502-05:00A Nace Family Recipe: Light Bread<p> This post originally appeared on my "Peevish Pen" blog back in June of 2007 as "<a href="https://peevishpen.blogspot.com/2007/06/another-family-recipe-light-bread.html" target="_blank">Another Family Recipe: Light Bread."</a> Since it's a recipe my grandmother probably got from her grandmother, it's worth posting here:</p><h3 class="post-title" style="text-align: center;">Grandma's Light Bread</h3><p>One of the delights of my childhood was going to Grandma’s house on Sunday and smelling her light bread baking. Eating it hot from the oven was even more delightful. She had both a wood stove and a gas stove in her kitchen. She used the wood stove for baking the bread and for most of her cooking. I rarely saw her use the gas stove.</p>Mattie Blanche Nace Ruble—who lived to be nearly 97—grew up in Lithia, Virginia, but moved to Roanoke when she married a railroad man. Here is a picture of her as a young mother with her three children (Lawrence, the oldest; Raymond, the baby; and Alene, my mother).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipR7iXyWnbPZkVpYkoHvjQy1caH3NLrs4H9sppF1vIJ_szbEKeH5R-bP20HqDSQ4FPWFfZlGnhKafnH2vrsq1ndVZIOOfXmOujBYksNilxTQ4b0JWm6dVEdIVew3Qio2djDNu3e-LrBrA/s1600-h/BlanceRublekids.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080005209575947522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipR7iXyWnbPZkVpYkoHvjQy1caH3NLrs4H9sppF1vIJ_szbEKeH5R-bP20HqDSQ4FPWFfZlGnhKafnH2vrsq1ndVZIOOfXmOujBYksNilxTQ4b0JWm6dVEdIVew3Qio2djDNu3e-LrBrA/s320/BlanceRublekids.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 297px;" /></a><br />Grandma probably got the recipe from her mother, Sulmena Frances Spence Nace, pictured here with her husband, William Robert Nace.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQXTPazBkATXr8alWITmfGpWwT7owsCru8soCUoaSYpiWsvmSPbbO0GViZ9hnB_91Z4xhGrxmha3eZMmFSx0U5tJyYerv7fp3b6LiyHBWknPEkvsnavYPZqjABrE9C4A-vgeWtnWf7bvk/s1600-h/WRNaceSFSpence.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080004947582942450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQXTPazBkATXr8alWITmfGpWwT7owsCru8soCUoaSYpiWsvmSPbbO0GViZ9hnB_91Z4xhGrxmha3eZMmFSx0U5tJyYerv7fp3b6LiyHBWknPEkvsnavYPZqjABrE9C4A-vgeWtnWf7bvk/s320/WRNaceSFSpence.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Grandma Ruble’s Light Bread</span><br /><br />1 cake or package of yeast<br />1 tablespoon sugar<br />1 tablespoon shortening (She used lard but Crisco works)<br />6 cups plain flour<br />1 teaspoon of salt<br />1 pint lukewarm water<br /></div><br />Dissolve 1 cake yeast and 1 Tbs. sugar in one pint lukewarm water. Add 1 Tbs. shortening (Crisco) and 3 cups plain flour. Beat until smooth. Then add 1 tsp. salt and 3 more cups of flour—or enough to make a dough that is easily handled.<br /><br />Knead the dough until smooth and elastic–about 10 minutes. Place dough in greased bowl, cover, and set in a moderately warm place, free from drafts, until light (about 50 minutes).<br /><br />Punch down dough and form into rolls. Place rolls in greased bread pans, cover, and let rise one hour. Bake 30 minutes in preheated 350 degree oven. [Note: I added the time and temperature that worked for me.]<br /><div style="text-align: center;">~~~<br /></div>I liked the rolls from the corner of the pan—crust on two sides so it held up well for buttering.<br /><div style="text-align: center;">~</div>Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-23352861421900815292020-07-27T09:51:00.001-04:002020-12-04T01:53:33.509-05:00Uncle T.O. Mystery<span style="font-size: medium;">Some of my Nace family has been making the news lately, at least in the "What's on Your Mind" column by Ray Cox that appears in every Monday's <i>Roanoke Times</i>. </span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Because one of Cox's April columns, "<a href="https://roanoke.com/news/local/woym-more-nace-memories-surface-from-attempts-to-revive-manganese-mining-to-snakes-not-alive/article_b91503d5-4e17-502d-aafd-4d842dd5b1a6.html" target="_blank">WOYM: More Nace memories surface, from attempts to revive manganese mining to snakes not alive</a>" referenced a "Tazewell Orren Hunt," I thought Tazewell might be connected to my great-aunt Cora Nace's husband, Thomas Orren Hunt. (I'd blogged about Cora and her husband in this December 10 post: "<a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/cora-virginia-nace-hunt.html" target="_blank">Cora Virginia Nace Hunt</a>") Orren is not a common name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I did some research and could find nothing about a "Tazewell Orren Hunt." I concluded that "Tazewell" had to have been "Thomas." I emailed Ray Co about what I'd learned. As a good reporter would do, Cox did some more researching himself. Hence the story in the July 27 newspaper: "<a href="https://roanoke.com/news/local/woym-family-historians-help-piece-together-the-backstory-on-uncle-t-o-of-botetourt/article_9339b544-aa20-586d-be24-2ce89e2e5094.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1" target="_blank">WOYM: Family historians help piece together the backstory on 'Uncle T.O.' of Botetourt.</a>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">**April 5 "WOYM: Botetourt County's Nace had ties to region's iron mining history"</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">**April 19, 2020: "WOYM: More Nace memories surface, from attempts to revive manganese mining to snakes not alive" </span><a href="https://roanoke.com/news/local/woym-more-nace-memories-surface-from-attempts-to-revive-manganese-mining-to-snakes-not-alive/article_b91503d5-4e17-502d-aafd-4d842dd5b1a6.html">https://roanoke.com/news/local/woym-more-nace-memories-surface-from-attempts-to-revive-manganese-mining-to-snakes-not-alive/article_b91503d5-4e17-502d-aafd-4d842dd5b1a6.html</a></span></div>
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<span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">**June 21, 2020: "WOYM: Reader seeks help finding out more about a long-ago storekeeper in Nace" </span></span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">**June 28, 2020: WOYM: "Nace storekeeper ID'd thanks to Botetourt County family connections" </span></span><br />
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<span><span>**July 27, 2020: "WOYM: Family historians help piece together the backstory on 'Uncle T.O. of Botetourt" </span><a href="https://roanoke.com/news/local/woym-family-historians-help-piece-together-the-backstory-on-uncle-t-o-of-botetourt/article_9339b544-aa20-586d-be24-2ce89e2e5094.html">https://roanoke.com/news/local/woym-family-historians-help-piece-together-the-backstory-on-uncle-t-o-of-botetourt/article_9339b544-aa20-586d-be24-2ce89e2e5094.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">While I’m a Smith through my paternal line, I’m also a Smith through my maternal Nace line via my great-grandmother’s Spence line.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My Nace line, through <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/spence-connection.html" target="_blank">Frances Spence Nace</a>, goes back to <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2011/01/goff-connection.html" target="_blank">Goffs</a> to Harrisons to Battailes to a Smith line in colonial Virginia. John Battaile (my 8<sup>th</sup>great-grandfather who settled before 1690 in VA and who served in the House of Burgesses in 1696) was married to Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Major Lawrence Smith who “surveyed and helped lay out the Town of Yorktown.” Here’s the line and how it connects to the Naces (some of the dates might be off by a few years because some sources list slightly different dates; ditto for a few of the spellings of names):</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Thomas Smith (1565-):<b></b>Alice Judd (1565-1615)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://sherrysharp.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I91816&tree=Roots" target="_blank">Major Lawrence Smith</a> </b>was born 29 March 1629 (or possibly later), in Lancashire, England, and died after 8 August 1700 in Gloucester County, Virginia. He was an engineer and a surveyor and was a prominent citizen in colonial Virginia. He came to Virginia in the mid-1600's, possibly imported from England to Virginia by his uncle, Augustine Warner, in the year 1652. (Warner was the great-great grandfather of George Washington.) While no pictures exist of Smith, this is a portrait of Augustine Warner:</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Smith patented Severn Hall in Gloucester County in 1662, where he lived and died. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">However, he also had connections to Yorktown. He acquired Temple Farm in Yorktown in 1686. (This farm was the site of Cornwallis’s surrender in 1781.) He surveyed land for the British Crown in both Gloucester and York Counties. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "georgia";">In 1691, he received fifty acres of land as payment for surveying and laying out the town of Yorktown. He also received considerable other land for importing people from England to Virginia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Page 43 of </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Families of Virginia </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">shows the connection between </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Lawrence Smith </b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">John Battaile</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: medium;"><span>His children with Mary Debnam (name is sometimes different) are Mary (1652), John (abt. 1653), Capt. Charles (1655), <b>Elizabeth</b> (abt. 1665)—my 8th great-grandmother who married <b>John Battaile</b>, Col. Lawrence, Maj. Augustine (1666), Sarah (abt. 1661), and Capt. William (1687). These dates vary slightly in different sources.</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span>In 1699, he was recommended for a King's Councilor post, but did not live lon</span><span>g enough to be seated. (His son John was then given the post.)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Internet provides plenty of information about Major <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-1217" target="_blank">Lawrence Smith</a>. </span></span>
<div><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">~</span></span></div>Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-87219440613432776532019-04-30T15:21:00.001-04:002020-12-04T13:20:31.614-05:00Matthew Nace Mystery Part II<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">continuation of <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-i.html" target="_blank">Matthew Nace Mystery Part I</a></span></span></h2>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a decade or so of living in Oregon, Matthew Harvey Nace—albeit under his assumed name, <i>James H. Neyce</i>—finally made it to California.<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span>James H. Neyce </span></i><span>doesn’t appear in an 1870 census, but he was clearly in California by then. <i>James H. Neyce</i>, a watchmaker, appears in the October 1868 voter registration for Salinas, California. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span>James Hempstead Neyce</span></i><span>, a watchmaker who was born in Virginia, appears again in the 1871 voter registration for Lakeport, California.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By 1880, he seems to have aged about four years. Page 41 of the 1880 California-Sonoma-Santa Rosa Census, shows <i>60-year-old </i>James H. Neyes was a “searcher of records” and lived on Cherry Street in Sonoma. The census information indicates both his parents were from Virginia, as was he and his wife Ella B. (age 38—now her husband is over 20 years older than she!). <i>James </i>and Ella now have two daughters—13-year-old Berta Lee (born in Oregon) and 8-year-old May (born in California)<span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Source: </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Year: <i>1880;</i>Census Place: <i>Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California;</i>Roll: <i>84;</i>Page: <i>110C;</i>Enumeration District: <i>124</i></span></span><i style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br /><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Years later, Mae Ida Neyce’s social security info gives her parents’ names (her mother is Ella B. <i>Christian</i>), birthdate, and birthplace:</span><span style="font-family: "garamond";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps it’s best that his family was gone before they were disgraced by James being imprisoned for embezzlement in January 1901 and serving two years in Folson Prison.<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9pt;">Title/Description:</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 9pt;">Identification Cards, (Folsom) 24801-25277 and (San Quentin), 4499-14744 p. 1343-44</i></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why he was imprisoned is a mystery. Did Matthew Nace’s past finally catch up with him, or did he commit a new crime in California? I couldn’t find any trial records (yet), only that he served nearly two years. His former business partner Israel Coe, who was 60 years old in the 1855 New York census and who took out newspaper ads in 1856 in an attempt to apprehend Matthew H. Nace, would be long dead. Did James H. Neyce’s job as a “searcher of records” provide a temptation to embezzle? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Despite his imprisonment, he didn’t lose his voting rights. The 1894 Sonoma voter list provided a description of 76-year-old (note age change from prison record—he should be 74, not 76 here) <i>James Hemstead Neyce</i>from Virginia. He was 5 ft. 8 tall, had a light complexion and blue eyes, gray hair, and was blind in his left eye. (The Nace family in Botetourt County, Virginia, had blue eyes. Matthew’s younger brother John Christian Nace had blue eyes and a light complexion.) James is still listed as a searcher of records and lives in Santa Rosa no. 6 precinct.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But he only lived six years longer. <i>James Hempstead Neyce</i>, whose birthdate is “unknown,” died on March 10, 1910, and was buried in the <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2098457/old-county-cemetery" target="_blank">old county cemetery</a> in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Note</b>: Much of the above is speculation based on evidence I discovered at various sites on the Internet, but what I have deduced about Matthew Harvey Nace is certainly plausible. (His marriage record to Ella B. Christian and their daughter May Ida Neyce’s social security record provided the most helpful hints.) We’ll probably never know the full story of his life and exploits, but some public records have given us at least a glimpse of part of it. Pictures of the cemetery are from <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2098457/old-county-cemetery">https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2098457/old-county-cemetery</a>.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2018/07/matthew-harvey-nace.html" target="_blank">earlier post</a> about my great-great uncle, Matthew Harvey Nace, it seemed as if he’d vanished after writing a letter (on April 26, 1856) to his business partner, Israel Coe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But did he really vanish? Or did he remarry in Indiana, move to Oregon, change his name, climb Mt. St. Helens, move to California, spend some time in Folson Prison, and die in 1910? I can only track him by his given name to Indiana, but numerous clues suggest his other adventures. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His letter to Israel Coe (posted in full on “<a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2018/07/matthew-harvey-nace.html" target="_blank">Matthew Harvey Nace</a>”) ended:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>Three months after he wrote the letter (and two years after his wife Evaline’s death), 32-year-old Matthew remarried—in Vigo, Indiana—to 20-year-old Ella B. Christian. Was she kin to his late wife Evaline, whose maiden name had been Christian? Or to the 20-year-old “L. P. Christian Nace” (his “sister” according to the census) who was living in his house in Brooklyn, New York, in 1855 (and <i>might have been</i> his 20-year-old brother Robert’s wife)? Odd how “<i>Ella B</i>. Christian Nace” sounds like “<i>L.P</i>. Christian Nace.” And both were born in 1835. (Could the 1855 Brooklyn census taker have made a mistake in spelling and really meant </span><span>“</span><span>Ella B</span><span>”</span><span>? But that would mean—?)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>There can’t be many men named Matthew Harvey Nace. (Our Matthew was named after Matthew Harvey, the owner of Mount Joy Plantation, who employed Matthew’s father, William Nace, as overseer.) </span><span>After the marriage, </span><i>Mattthew Nace </i><span>dropped out of sight. </span><span>Since this was the last record I could find about him with his legal name, it’s likely he changed his name.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Apparently, at some point, Matthew and Ella appear to have moved from Indiana to Oregon, and Matthew apparently assumed a different, but similar, name: <i>James H. Neyce</i>. In 1868, they had a son who died in infancy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>From the above sources, we know that Matthew—er, <i>James</i>—and Ella were in Oregon from 1860 until 1868. Some other info on the Internet suggests James H Neyce was a postmaster in Wasco County, Oregon for a while, but I cannot yet find definite proof. </span><span>In March 1867, he appears on two Oregon tax lists, on one as a “pedlar 3rd class” and on another as “watch” (which might be the article he was selling).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond";"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-ii.html">https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-ii.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I first blogged about Matthew Nace back in 2010 in the “</span><a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/nace-settlement.html" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank"><span>Nace Settlement</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">” post about his father’s estate. What became of Matthew was a mystery. From what I’d learned on the Internet, Matthew had apparently died mysteriously in Kansas, date unknown, and his widow married another man. Or maybe not. From what I’ve learned recently, it’s not. But there’s still a mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some background: Matthew Harvey Nace was one of four sons of William Nace (6 Feb 1797—May 1863): William M. Nace (19 Sept. 1826-2 Oct 1908), Matthew H. Nace (1824-?), Robert M. Nace (1835-?), and John C. Nace (22 Nov 1828-17 Feb 1928). William Nace worked for Col. Matthew Harvey, so it's logical where Matthew Harvey Nace got his name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">John C. Nace, stayed home (except for his service in the 22<sup>nd </sup>Virginia infantry during the Civil War). But the other sons all left home.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/08/william-nace-jr.html" target="_blank">William Nace Jr.</a> had worked in Richmond at a wholesale grocery and commission house in Richmond from 1848 until early 1856, when “at the solicitation of Honorable Daniel Woodson, secretary of the Interior, he removed to Kansas.” In Lecompton Kansas, he was successful in a number of ventures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">William Jr. was soon joined by his younger brother <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/robert-nace.html" target="_blank">Robert</a>, who—as of May 1859—became manager of the saloon at the Rowena Hotel, “the most lavish hotel west of the Missouri River.” But Robert appears on the 1855 New York census, where he was living with his older brother Matthew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, for some of the Nace boys, there were connections to Richmond, Kansas, and New York. They'd come a long way from Buchanan, Virginia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now for Matthew: According to various Internet sites, as well as ancestry.com, Matthew was married to two women named Evaline—one was Evaline Ann Frances Christian (born act. 1830), daughter of Saluda Baker Fuqua Christian Watson (b. 1805 in Charlotte County, Virginia; d. November 1886 in Lecompton, Kansas, where Matthew's older brother William lived.) This Evaline, who'd had a daughter (Jenny Frances—called “Fanny”) with Matthew in 1849, supposedly also married Robert William Pate in 1849. <i>But that didn't add up.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here’s the problem: Matthew, Evaline, and Fanny all appear on the 1850 census for Richmond, Virginia. So, it is likely that the Evaline who married Matthew was actually <i>Evaline Augusta Fuqua Christian</i> (whose mother was <i>Saluda Baker Fuqua Christian Watson</i>—same mother as the other Evaline). Somehow, many Internet sites have confused the wives' names while keeping the name of the mother—and the name of the first-born child—correct. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A record exists that this Evaline and Matthew were married in Lynchburg on November 10, 1847. Apparently they were a happy couple. Within a few years, they had three children: Jenny Frances (</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Fanny”) in </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1849, William (</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Willie</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) in December 1850, and Virginia Harvey (</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Jenny”) in 1852. During the early 50s, they lived in Richmond where it appears that Matthew was a successful businessman. Since Matthew's older brother had started his career there before going to Kansas, perhaps William had gotten Matthew a job there. At any rate, neither William nor Matthew ever returned home to Buchanan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In late 2016, a pdf of an article, “T<a href="https://www.hollywoodcemetery.org/friends/pdf/FHC-Newsletter-Fall2016-8.5x11.pdf" target="_blank">he Nace Monument in Hollywood Cemetery</a>” appeared online. It was about the restoration of a lavish monument erected by Matthew Nace for his widow, Evaline Augusta Fuqua who died May 5, 1854. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The year after his wife died, Matthew and his three children were living in Brooklyn, New York. The New York census for 1955 also shows an L(?) P Christian Nace (listed as "sister" but probably his sister-in-law) and R. W. Nace (his brother Robert?) living with him in a stone house worth $10,000. His vocation was listed as "tobacco." Also in the household were three servants from Ireland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Matthew was apparently co-owner of Nace & Coe Company, which seems to have run into problems in 1856. Matthew is accused of robbing and swindling:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fcYDAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA346&ots=tCqAMF6ytI&dq=Matthew+H.+Nace+%26+nace+%26+company&pg=PA344&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">Wells Vs. March case in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Vol. 30</a>, is Matthew H. Nace's letter to his business partner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Did Matthew make it to California? Or did he choose "self-destruction"? It remains a mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It seems unlikely that he ever claimed his children again, and—if he sent them to his father—they didn't stay with his father long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">According to the 1860 Kansas census, nine-year-old Willie was in Lecompton, Kansas, with his Uncle William. Willie was still there in 1865. The 1870 Federal census for Lecompton Kansas lists eighteen-year-old Virginia Nace living with her grandmother Saluda Christian Watson, who is now the postmistress. Living with them is eleven-year-old Laura Pate, who is likely another granddaughter of Saluda (Was Laura's mother married to Robert William Pate who had allegedly married Evaline in 1849?). What happened to Matthew's oldest daughter Fanny? What became of her is a mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before I started researching my Nace family genealogy, I didn't know much about the Palatinate. But questions arose: <i>What was this region?</i> and <i>Why did so many leave it? </i>Beside the Naces, their relatives— Zirkles, Fringers, Noffsingers, and others—also left, as did their Ruble in-laws. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fortunately, the Internet provides many resources for learning about the Palatinate. This blogpost, "<a href="http://blog.a3genealogy.com/2011/02/palatine-research.html" target="_blank">Pennsylvania Palatine Research</a>" at<i> A3Genealogy</i> is a good starting point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So is this article from <i>Olive </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Tree Genealogy</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">by Lorine McGinnis Schulze</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Olive Tree Genealogy </span><a href="http://olivetreegenealogy.com/" style="font-size: small;">http://olivetreegenealogy.com/</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Copyright © 1996</span><div style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[<i>This article has been published, with my permission as<br /><strong>Irish Palatine Story on the Internet</strong><br />in <em>Irish Palatine Association Journal</em>, No. 7 December 1996</i>]</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The Palatinate or German PFALZ, was, in German history, the land of the Count Palatine, a title held by a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Geographically, the Palatinate was divided between two small territorial clusters: the Rhenish, or Lower Palatinate, and the Upper Palatinate. The Rhenish Palatinate included lands on both sides of the Middle Rhine River between its Main and Neckar tributaries. Its capital until the 18th century was Heidelberg. The Upper Palatinate was located in northern Bavaria, on both sides of the Naab River as it flows south toward the Danube and extended eastward to the Bohemian Forest. The boundaries of the Palatinate varied with the political and dynastic fortunes of the Counts Palatine.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The Palatinate has a border beginning in the north, on the Moselle River about 35 miles southwest of Coblenz to Bingen and east to Mainz, down the Rhine River to Oppenheim, Guntersblum and Worms, then continuing eastward above the Nieckar River about 25 miles east of Heidelberg then looping back westerly below Heidelberg to Speyer, south down the Rhine River to Alsace, then north-westerly back up to its beginning on the Moselle River.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The first Count Palatine of the Rhine was Hermann I, who received the office in 945. Although not originally hereditary, the title was held mainly by his descendants until his line expired in 1155, and the Bavarian Wittelsbachs took over in 1180. In 1356, the Golden Bull ( a papal bull: an official document, usually commands from the Pope and sealed with the official Papal seal called a Bulla) made the Count Palatine an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. During the Reformation, the Palatinate accepted Protestantism and became the foremost Calvinist region in Germany.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">After Martin Luther published his 95 Theses on the door of the castle church at Wittenberg on 31 October 1517, many of his followers came under considerable religious persecution for their beliefs. Perhaps for reasons of mutual comfort and support, they gathered in what is known as the Palatine. These folk came from many places, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and beyond, but all shared a common view on religion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The protestant Elector Palatine Frederick V (1596-1632), called the "Winter King" of Bohemia, played a unique role in the struggle between Roman Catholic and Protestant Europe. His election in 1619 as King of Bohemia precipitated the Thirty Years War that lasted from 1619 until 1648. Frederick was driven from Bohemia and in 1623, deposed as Elector Palatine.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">During the Thirty Years War, the Palatine country and other parts of Germany suffered from the horrors of fire and sword as well as from pillage and plunder by the French armies. This war was based upon both politics and religious hatreds, as the Roman Catholic armies sought to crush the religious freedom of a politically-divided Protestantism.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Many unpaid armies and bands of mercenaries, both of friends and foe, devoured the substance of the people and by 1633, even the catholic French supported the Elector Palatine for a time for political reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">During the War of the Grand Alliance (1689-97), the troops of the French monarch Louis XIV ravaged the Rhenish Palatinate, causing many Germans to emigrate. Many of the early German settlers of America (e.g. the Pennsylvania Dutch) were refugees from the Palatinate. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Palatinate's lands on the west bank of the Rhine were incorporated into France, while its eastern lands were divided largely between neighbouring Baden and Hesse.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Nearly the entire 17th century in central Europe was a period of turmoil as Louis XIV of France sought to increase his empire. The War of the Palatinate (as it was called in Germany), aka The War of The League of Augsburg, began in 1688 when Louis claimed the Palatinate. Every large city on the Rhine above Cologne was sacked. The War ended in 1697 with the Treaty of Ryswick. The Palatinate was badly battered but still outside French control. In 1702, the War of the Spanish Succession began in Europe and lasted until 1713, causing a great deal of instability for the Palatines. The Palatinate lay on the western edge of the Holy Roman Empire not far from France's eastern boundary. Louis wanted to push his eastern border to the Rhine, the heart of the Palatinate.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">While the land of the Palatinate was good for its inhabitants, many of whom were farmers, vineyard operators etc., its location was unfortunately subject to invasion by the armies of Britain, France, and Germany. Mother Nature also played a role in what happened, for the winter of 1708 was particularly severe and many of the vineyards perished. So, as well as the devastating effects of war, the Palatines were subjected to the winter of 1708-09, the harshest in 100 years.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The scene was set for a mass migration. At the invitation of Queen Anne in the spring of 1709, about 7,000 harassed Palatines sailed down the Rhine to Rotterdam. From there, about 3000 were dispatched to America, either directly or via England, under the auspices of William Penn. The remaining 4,000 were sent via England to Ireland to strengthen the protestant interest.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">Although the Palatines were scattered as agricultural settlers over much of Ireland, major accumulations were found in Counties Limerick and Tipperary. As the years progressed and dissatisfactions increased, many of these folk seized opportunities to join their compatriots in Pennsylvania, or to go to newly-opened settlements in Canada.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">There were many reasons for the desire of the Palatines to emigrate to the New World: oppressive taxation, religious bickering, hunger for more and better land, the advertising of the English colonies in America and the favourable attitude of the British government toward settlement in the North American colonies. Many of the Palatines believed they were going to Pennsylvania, Carolina or one of the tropical islands.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The passage down the Rhine took from 4 to 6 weeks. Tolls and fees were demanded by authorities of the territories through which they passed. Early in June, the number of Palatines entering Rotterdam reached 1,000 per week. Later that year, the British government issued a Royal proclamation in German that all arriving after October 1709 would be sent back to Germany. The British could not effectively handle the number of Palatines in London and there may have been as many as 32 000 by November 1709. They wintered over in England since there were no adequate arrangements for the transfer of the Palatines to the English colonies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">In 1710, three large groups of Palatines sailed from London. The first went to Ireland, the second to Carolina and the third to New York with the new Governor, Robert Hunter. There were 3,000 Palatines on 10 ships that sailed for NY and approximately 470 died on the voyage or shortly after their arrival.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">In NY, the Palatines were expected to work for the British authorities, producing naval stores [tar and pitch] for the navy in return for their passage to NY. They were also expected to act as a buffer between the French and Natives on the northern frontier and the English colonies to the south and east.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">After the defeat of Napoleon (1814-15), the Congress of Vienna gave the east-bank lands of the Rhine valley to Bavaria. These lands, together with some surrounding territories, again took the name of Palatinate in 1838.</span><br />
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After learning about the Palatinate, I'm thankful that Matthias Nehs and his family made it to America.<br />
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Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-29004077037287987132018-01-22T09:52:00.001-05:002021-09-13T15:11:43.985-04:00Matthias Nehs<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">The early
Naces spelled their last name in various ways: Nehs, Näss, Neass, Noes, etc., which
has made researching them difficult. Even first names vary—<i>Matthias</i>, for instance, is sometimes <i>Mathias</i>. Thanks to the Internet, though, I’ve finally
been able to trace our Nace line back to the first one of our line in America. Our Nace family comes from the <a href="https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/palatines/palatine-history.shtml" target="_blank">Palatinate</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Matthias
Nehs, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">a blacksmith, was born in 1673 at either </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Mitschdorf or Preuschdorf,
Bas-Rhine, Alsace, France—which is on the German border. He married Mary
Barbara Barba, daughter of Joseph Barba and Anna Marie Winterman, in 1699 at </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Bavarn
Pflaz, Germany.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">In the
fall of 1731, he arrived in Philadelpha aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.oocities.org/dtbostwick/shiplists_pa1731.html" target="_blank">Britannia</a></i> with his </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">wife, six sons, two
daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren. According to the passenger list, this
was the family: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Men
16 Years & Up</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Mathias
Nace<b> </b>(58), </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Johan Nehs (26), Dewald Nehs
(24), Hans George<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u> </u></b>Nehs<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> (</b>21), Matthias Nehs, Jr. (27),
Michael Nehs (30), Jacob Nehs (31). </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Women 16 Years & Up</b><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">:</span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;"> </b><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Maria
Barbara Nehs </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">(</b><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">60), Ana Katherina
Nehs (28), Dorothea Neahs (27). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Children
Under 16</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Magdalena Nehs (7), Hans Jacob
Nehs (5), Michael Nehs, Jr. (1), Katherine Nehs (2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Britannia</i>, captained by Michael Franklyn, originally sailed from London/Cowes, but it picked up passengers in Rotterdam before sailing to Philadelphia. Soon after the ship landed in Philadelphia on 21 September 1731,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the passengers went to the courthouse to take an oath of allegiance to Great Britain.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "courier";"><b>By 1727, the influx of these
foreigners into Pennsylvania assumed such proportions that the authorities
became alarmed and the Provincial Council adopted a resolution requiring that
all masters of vessels importing Germans and other foreigners should, before
sailing from the European port, make a list of the names of all passengers,
particularly the males over sixteen; though often the names and ages of all
passengers, including women and children were set down. Then, upon reaching
Pennsylvania, the foreigners were obliged to sign a declaration of allegiance
and subjection to the King of Great Britain and of fidelity to the Proprietary
of Pennsylvania. This oath was first taken in the courthouse at Philadelphia,
September 21, 1727, by 109 Palatines. </b>F</span><span style="font-family: "courier";">rom <i>The Strassburger Family and Allied Families
of Pennsylvania</i>, by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, 1922</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">The
family remained in Pennsylvania for a time. Matthias’s first wife must have
died not long after their arrival, for he married a second time to Anna Barbara
Hoerter at Skippack, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, on 28, November, 1733. They had
two sons, John Henry and Johan Owldrick (or Ulrich), before Matthias died on 31
Jan 1741 in Phildelphia, PA. He is buried at </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Little Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery<b>,
</b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Earlington, Montgomery County<span style="background-color: #faf2e5; background: #FAF2E5;">, </span>Pennsylvania<span style="background-color: #faf2e5; background: #FAF2E5;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">Matthias’
son Hans Georg (who had been born in 1710 in either<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mitschdorf, Alsace, France, or Ittlingen,
Heilbronn, Baden-Wuertemberg, Germany) married Anna Maria “Mary” Eichelberger
on 13 March 1744 at the Lancaster Pennsylvania Moravian church in Lititz. Hans
Georg died in 1785; his wife in 1814.</span><br />
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son George Nace was born in the 1740s—probably in Hanover, York County,
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was for a time in Count Pulaski’s regiment. For his service, he received a land
grant for a hundred acres in Maryland. His Maryland plantation was called “Nace’s Tavern.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mary, William, and John. George died around 1808-1809 in Baltimore. His son
William inherited the farm, and his son John (1760-1852), who had married
Catherine Filston 1764-1855), received a land grant in 1782 for 170 acres in
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County, Virginia Naces. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt;">See </span><a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/08/nace-family-introduction.html" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">“Nace Family Introduction,”</a> <span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 18.66666603088379px;">the first post in this blog.</span> </div>
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Back in 2010, I posted about<a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/11/annie-pearl-nace.html" target="_blank"> Annie Pearl Nace's mysterious death</a> on July 30, 1911. The circumstances surrounding Pearl's death were a big family secret—her sisters apparently didn't want to talk about it, and my mother (Pearl's sister Blanche's daughter) was adamant that no one know. In her old age, Mama was angry that a cousin had asked her about it on more than one occasion.<br />
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When I was about eight or nine, I'd asked about what happened to my great aunt. I remember Mama telling me that Pearl's boyfriend "Otha" might have poisoned her. In her 80s, when I asked for more details, Mama denied ever telling me that. But lately, thanks to the Internet and Facebook, I've learned more of Pearl's story.<br />
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Otha was actually Otho Wilson Young, born in 1883, so he was seven years older than Pearl. His parents were Samuel and Rebecca Young. His family, like hers, lived in Botetourt County, Virginia.<br />
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He must have been serious about Pearl to pose for a picture with her at a Roanoke photographer's studio. I'm guessing the picture was taken prior to 1910, or certainly no later than very early 1910.<br />
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I know that after Pearl's sister Blanche married Howard Ruble on June 11, 1909, and moved to Roanoke, Pearl sometimes visited her sister's home on Rorer Avenue. In fact, when the 1910 Roanoke census was taken, 19-year-old Pearl was staying with them:<br />
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The census had to have been taken very early in 1910, because Blanche gave birth to her son Howard Lawrence on March 3 of that year. The baby isn't listed on the census. Since Howard was a fireman on the railroad and would often be gone overnight, it must have been a comfort to Blanche to have her sister stay with her. It's uncertain how long Pearl stayed, but when the Buchanan Census 0056 was taken in mid-April, she was listed as living with her parents and her younger sisters Ossie (age 16) and Zora (age 6). Her sister Cora (21), married for three years to T.O. Hunt and the mother of a two-year-old and a newborn, lived in the same neighborhood.<br />
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But what about Otho? What was happening in his life in 1910? According to the census, he was living with his widowed mother and younger sister in Buchanan district 0056 (same district as the Naces) and working as a laborer at a sawmill.<br />
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So—what happened between Pearl and Otho? Obviously there was a break-up. But who broke up with whom, and why? We'll likely never know for sure, but it didn't take Otho long to find a new love interest. On December 22, 1910, Otho Wilson Young married Annie May Haymaker.<br />
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Look back at the picture of Pearl and Otha together. Notice how serious—maybe sad—she looks. Her eyes seem blank. Her left hand has the fingers curled under—almost like a fist. Otho looks smug. Shouldn't the two of them seem happier if they indeed were a happy couple. Notice the photo of the younger Otho. Someone has made deep scratches across his throat. I used to think that maybe one of her sisters did that, but maybe Pearl did it herself. Was she so angry she wanted to cut his throat? And why did she keep the picture?<br />
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When Pearl died on July 30, 1911, Otho's new wife was seven months pregnant with their son Homer Godwin Young. Her three older sisters were all married—they'd been her current age or younger when they married—and they all had children. Did Pearl feel like an old maid? Did she have any marriage prospects or even any beaux? What happened on the last Saturday of July? Her obituary gives few clues:<br />
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The "very bright, cheerful girl" who was in excellent health took sick at noon on Saturday, July 29, and was dead by 8 AM Sunday of "<a href="http://www.henriettes-herb.com/eclectic/thomas/cholera-mor.html" target="_blank">cholera morbus</a>," which we'd now call gastroenteritis. From "best of health" to dead in less than 24 hours seems suspicious.<br />
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Were the two doctors correct in their diagnosis? Sometimes distinguishing <i>cholera morbus</i> from poisoning could be difficult in the old days. From <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PysQAAAAYAAJ&dq=poisons%20%26%20Robert%20Amory&pg=PA38#v=onepage&q=poisons%20&%20Robert%20Amory&f=false" target="_blank">Robert Amory's old book <i>Poisons</i></a>:<br />
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<i>Cholera morbus, </i>the book points out, is one of the disorders that might be confused with poisoning, but <i>cholera morbus</i> is "seldom fatal" and, if it is, death takes place "several days" later.<br />
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<a href="http://www.henriettes-herb.com/eclectic/ellingwood1/cholera-morbus.html" target="_blank">Another source</a> notes that <i>cholera morbus</i> occurs in hot weather:<br />
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It would likely have been hot that July day, and fruit would have been in season. But why had no other family members been taken ill? Surely they ate the same things she did. The source mentions that the prognosis for recovery is good if the disease is "seen in the early stages." Two doctors were summoned less than 24 hours after her symptoms began.<br />
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If Pearl had indeed succumbed to <i>cholera morbus</i>, why was discussion of her death so hush-hush through the years? Was Pearl really poisoned? And if so, by whom? If so, why was the crime concealed and not investigated? Why would the family never want it mentioned? We can speculate, but we'll never know for sure. . . .<br />
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As for Otho, he and his family eventually left the county, and he worked in Covington at the paper mill, as did one of his sons. The 1930 census gives details:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">Thanks to members of the Facebook Botetourt County Genealogy group for finding the obituary that pointed me in the direction of where to look for info.</span></div>
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<br />Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-13153324308919225922015-07-04T16:38:00.003-04:002021-11-21T11:20:43.061-05:00Andrew F. Spence<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I've blogged about the <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/spence-connection.html" target="_blank">Spence connection</a> before. But where the father of Sulmana "Frances" Spence Nace came from has been a family mystery for decades. It's <a href="http://www.vagenweb.org/bedford/bedf-m_s.htm" target="_blank">documented</a> that Andrew F. Spence married Mary <u>Lucy</u> Goff, daughter of Archibald Goff, on Dec. 19, 1849. She was about sixteen. During the course of their marriage, they had ten children. Here's the list from the <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/spence-connection.html" target="_blank">family Bible</a>:</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On September 7, 1860, 33-year-old Andrew, 27-year-old Lucy, their sons John H (age 9), Edward J (age 6), and William A (age 3), and their 4-month-old daughter Mary C.S. were living in the northern district (Lone Pine Post Office) of Bedford County. John was attending school. Also in their household was 30-year-old Mary Sweeney, whose vocation was "serving." Was she employed by the Spences, or was she somehow kin? </span><br />
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Ancestry.com, I learned that his name was actually Andrew <i>Frederick</i>
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This makes sense. He got his middle name from
his father, and he named his first son John Harrison Goff, likely John for his father. Andrew's wife was Mary
Lucy Goff—the daughter of Polly Harrison and Archibald Goff, so that accounts
for the Harrison middle name. His first daughter, actually his fourth child, was
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Despite being from
the north, Andrew served in Company C of the 58th Virginia Infantry—the Big
Island Greys (Chilton's/Arthur's Company of Bedford County.
The ten companies in the 58th were from <a href="http://jubalearlyudc.org/?L=blogs.blog&article=15"><span style="color: #420178;">Amherst, Franklin, Patrick, and Rockbridge Counties</span></a><span style="color: #141414;">.
The regiment was with General Jubal Early to defend Lynchburg in mid-June 1864.
Andrew must have gotten leave a few times, since Alexander was born in 1863 and
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">I was able to find his death certificate online (he died April 18, 1912 of "Euremic convulsion"), </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">and now I know he is buried in Lithia Baptist
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<![endif]--><!--StartFragment--></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">He was still
alive when his granddaughter Annie Pearl Nace died mysteriously in July of the
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Bill was the son of Zora William Nace Gross, the youngest Nace daughter. When the picture below was taken of the Nace family in 1902, Zora had not yet been born.</div>
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Here is Bill Gross as a baby, held by his cousin Alene Ruble at the Ruble home on Watts Avenue in Roanoke.</div>
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Here he is with Alene again on his birthday. Bill was born March 16, 1930; Alene was born March 17, 1913. No doubt they are celebrating both birthdays. Bill's dog was named "At."</div>
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The Gross family lived not far far from the Rubles in the Roanoke's Rugby section before moving to Newport News. Below is Bill's picture as it appeared in his obituary in <i>The</i> <a href="http://www.roanoke.com/obituaries/gross-william-claude/article_e2d513d1-a87e-579a-a767-37831434756e.html" target="_blank"><i>Roanoke Times</i></a>.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">William Claude Gross, 84, of Newport News, died at his home on March 22, 2014, surrounded by family. Bill moved to Newport News at the age of eight when his father came to work at the Newport News Shipyard and the C&O Railroad. He graduated from Newport News High School in February 1948.</span></div>
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Several Naces are buried there: <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaboteto/lbc00823.jpg">William Robert Nace</a> and his wife <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaboteto/lbc00822.jpg">Sulmana</a> (spelled this way on her tombstone, but spelled differently in family Bible) and three of their daughters. <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaboteto/lbc00746.jpg">Annie Pearl</a> <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/11/annie-pearl-nace.html">died mysteriously</a> on July 30, 1911. The date is hard to read on her tombstone.<br />
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Another Nace daughter, <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaboteto/lbc00835.jpg">Cora Hunt</a>, and her husband, <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaboteto/lbc00836.jpg">Thomas Orren Hunt</a>, are also buried there. Here is a picture of their five children: Claude Nace Hunt (1907-1984), William O. Hunt (1909-1968), Pearl (1912-1995), Lucas Dennison—called Den (1905-1976) and Elizabeth (1907?-?)<br />
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Cora and TO's daughter <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaboteto/lbc00868.jpg">Pearl Hunt Whorley</a> and her husband, Boyd Conrad Whorley, are buried at Lithia Baptist. Pearl Whorley's daughter <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaboteto/lbc00869.jpg">Peggy Ann</a> is among other Whorleys buried there. Here's a picture of the six Whorley children:<br />
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A third Nace daughter, <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaboteto/lbc00819.jpg">Ossie</a> and her husband, <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaboteto/lbc00818.jpg">George Goode</a>, are buried at Lithia, too.<br />
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But he's buried beside his wife in the <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15888957">Noftsinger-Styne-Pico cemetery</a> where a more elaborate stone marks his resting place. So where is he?<br />
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Now here's a mystery solved: Where was the older brother of John C. Nace buried? Thanks to <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/">Find a Grave</a> website, I've found <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29470733&ref=wvr">William MacDowell Nace's grave</a> in Maple Grove Cemetery in Kansas.<br />
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<br />Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-73173402759216073762011-06-23T14:37:00.000-04:002011-06-23T14:37:19.330-04:00Three Sisters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This picture of three Nace sisters was probably taken during the late 1960s or early 1970s.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I can remember visiting the house, which had been empty a long time, when I was little. That would have been more than 60 years ago. The picture below, also taken during the 1960s, is labeled on the back "Aunt Fannie's house at Lithia." I'm not sure who Aunt Fannie was or how she was kin.<br />
<span style="color: red;">UPDATE</span>: She was likely Mary Frances "Fannie" Nace Delong, a daughter of John Christian Nace. John lived with her when he was elderly. He died at her house in 1928. On the 1920 census, his is llisted in the Delong household, which was next door to the William Robert Nace household.</div>
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Lithia is a small town—and former train stop—in Botetourt County, halfway between Nace and Buchanan.<br />
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The red spot on the map below marks Lithia, which is just across the Blue Ridge Mountains from Bedford County, on this Google Earth map:<br />
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Lithia received its name from the lithium in the local water. Apparently this mineral water was quite desirable. (Several Naces lived well into their 90s. Did the water they drank had something to do with it?) Here are some posters advertising lithia water—and extolling its virtues— from Buffalo Lithia Springs, which was in Mecklinburg County:<br />
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I don't know whether or not the water from Lithia, Virginia, was ever marketed. However, there was a nearby springs where folks came to take the waters and it did ship its water "to all parts of the Union." From the 1877 edition of <i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NUQNhbNjUj0C&pg=PR11&dq=%22Blue+Ridge+Springs%22+%26+Botetourt&hl=en&ei=Q1I8TbeRMcbOgAf74tm6CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=%22Blue%20Ridge%20Springs%22%20%26%20Botetourt&f=false">Appleton's Illustrated Hand-Book of America Summer Resorts</a>, </i>which you can download free from Google Books, There's this entry<br />
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<a href="http://www.newrivernotes.com/va/bote1888.htm">Chataigne's 1888-89 Virginia Directory and Business Directory for Botetourt County, Virginia</a>, contains information about Lithia. Lithia had a distillery (owned by W.S. Hershaw, a general merchant (R.C. Noftsinger & Co.), two corn and flour mills (C.F. Fringer, David Bower), a saw mill (David Bower), and a fruit and vegetable packer (E.J. McCullough). I remember my grandmother (Blanche) telling me that when she was young, she and her sisters worked at the "canning factory." I don't know if it was McCullough's factory or another in the county.</div>
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Among Lithia's principal farmers, the directory lists James Falls, P. Kessler, L.C. Lackland, George Kelly, John Fringer, Fulton Fringer, David Bow, E. J. McCulloch, W.J. Noftsinger, Geo. De Long, W.A. Noftsinger. C.F. Fringer, <b><a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/08/john-c-nace.html">John Nace</a></b>, Robt. Goode, J.W. Parr, B. Kessler, J. T. Obenshain, W.H. Kessler, Charles Kessler, and S.S. Young.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our Spence-Nace ancestors are connected to the Goffs. Mary Lucy Goff (daughter of Archibald) married Andrew Frederick Spence on December 19, 1849. Their daughter Sulmana (also spelled Sulminia/Sulmena) Frances Spence married William Robert Nace in 1882. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first Goff in the Amherst/Bedford County, Virginia, area was John, who <a href="http://www.goff-gough.com/protected/JohnGoffWill1762-1763.pdf">made a will in 1762</a>. Here's some information about him that I found <i><a href="http://www.goff-gough.com/protected/bedford%20goffs%20cover%20page.htm">Bedford County, VA Goffs</a></i> on the <a href="http://www.goff-gough.com/">Goff-Gough</a> site:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although I can't find his death date, Archibald was 70 years old at the time of the <a href="http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/va/bedford/1850/pg0162b.txt">1850 Bedford census</a>. His occupation listed as farmer. It is likely that Polly was the mother of Mary Lucy Goff, since Mary was married to <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/spence-connection.html">Andrew F. Spence</a> in 1849 and thus would likely have been born several years after 1810. Mary's daughter named her eldest daughter <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/11/lucy-nace-mays.html">Mary Lucy</a>.</span></span></div>
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Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-72994261080206157912010-12-24T21:30:00.001-05:002022-12-25T12:25:57.036-05:00Christmas Message 1912<span style="font-size: medium;">In 1912, G. H. Broyles was the pastor of Lithia Baptist Church. My grandmother, Mattie Blanche Nace Ruble, received this little card with a photo of him pasted on the cover.<br />
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Inside was printed his Christmas message:<br />
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In December 1912, Grandma would have been married, living in Roanoke, and six months pregnant with her second child—my mother.<br />
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When she was younger, she received this carnation vase as a Christmas gift at a "Christmas tree" at Lithia Baptist Church.<br />
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The candle holder beside the vase was also hers, as was the smaller vase in the background. I don't know if they were Christmas gifts or not.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her maiden name was Spence. Her parents were Andrew F. Spence and Mary Lucy Goff, who were married on December 19, 1849. Lucy was the daughter of Archibald Goff of Bedford County. Jefferson Goff provided surety for the </span><a href="http://vagenweb.org/bedford/bedf-m_s.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">marriage bond</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><br /><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Spence names on the "Births" page are hard to read:</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">John Henry Spence Born De 24 1850</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Edward [Lott?] Spence Born Feb 10 1853</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">William [G?] Spence Born Feb 3 1855</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mary [?]Spence Born De 5 1859</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alexzander [?] A. Spence Born June 8 1863</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Selmenia F. Spence Born De 14 1864</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Daniel [might be David?] M. Spence Born June 12 1867</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lucie Jane Spence Born De 9 1869</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Walter F. Spence Born July 9 1875</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one infant Boy Born Apr 11 1858</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've tried Googling many of the Spence names but haven't had much luck. I'd love to know more about Andrew <strike>Francis </strike> Frederick Spence. Who were his parents? Where did he come from?</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Update: He came from Orange, County, New York; he was a stone mason. And his name was actually Andrew Frederick Spence, not Andrew Francis Spence as I'd heard for years. See <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2015/07/andrew-francis-spence.html">https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2015/07/andrew-francis-spence.html</a> for more info about him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Spense family apparently originated in Scotland. I found the following information on the Internet several years ago but neglected to note the URL:</span><br />
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Although the family name Spence is found in Ireland for centuries, it is ultimately of Scottish origin, having been introduced into Ireland by Scottish settlers. The name is classified as being of occupational origin, that is, derived from the trade or profession pursued by the initial bearer. In this instance the surname Spence is derived from the Middle English "spense, spence", a derivative of Old French "despense", denoting "an official in charge of provisions or a larder". Variants of the surname Spence include Spense, Spencer, and Spenser.</blockquote>
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The Scottish Spences of Wormsington were a sept of the clan MacDuff and standard bearers to this clan. Today, this name is numerous in Counties Antrim and Down and rarely found in the rest of Ireland. One of the earliest references this name or to a variant is Scottish in origin and a record of one Roger Dispensator (Latin for Spenser) who witnessed a charter by the Bishop of Moray in 1202. However, research is on going and this name may have been documented even earlier than the date indicated above. John Spens was bailiff of Irvine in 1260. . . .</blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">According to </span><a href="http://www.mdgenweb.org/somerset/history/dspence.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this online article</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, there were Spences in Virginia in the 1600s, particularly in Westmoreland County; the same article and this </span><a href="http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SPENCE/1999-01/0917342504"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">genealogy thread</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> also notes the family origin:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #453b33; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: 13px;">The family of Spens (or Spence, Spense) is of very high antiquity in Scotland, descended from a younger son of the Earl of Fife, and carried on its armorial bearing the lion rampant of the Clan MacDuff to denote descent from that ancient house<sup style="font-size: 7pt;">[2]</sup>. The name was sometimes rendered as "de Spens", or "of the Spences". Both the Scottish "Spens" and the English "Spencer" carry the meaning of <span style="font-style: italic;">steward</span>. [Source: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #453b33; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">John Wayland, 1930: </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Virginia Valley Records</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">: "The Spence Family", p 366.]</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's a lengthy thread on Rootsweb devoted to the </span><a href="http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/SPENCE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spence family</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, and </span><a href="http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SPENCE/1996-07/0837285420"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a reference on Rootsweb</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to a "Francis Spence, age 23" who arrived in Virginia in 1635. </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #453b33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The earliest Bedford County Spence that I can find </span><a href="http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~willspnc/spence/dnatables.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">online</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (on the Rootsweb Spens/Spence DNA page) is "</span><a href="http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stevensp&id=I04306"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Burwell Spence</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> born 1763 Bedford Co Virginia, wife Rebecca Puckett, resided Carroll Co VA." There's also a "James Spence, born abt. 1766 VA, married in Bedford Co VA, Eleanor Milam." </span><a href="http://awt.msn.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=bon_johnson&id=I02792&ti=5541"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another site</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> lists James Spence as born in 1770 and marrying Eleanor (b. 1774) on October 1, 1785, which would have made him 15 and her 11 when they married, so I'd guess one or more of those dates is wrong. (</span><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~milam/mike/Milamemailcollection.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another site</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> says they married in 1794 and had no known children.) </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #453b33;">How either connects to Andrew, I don't know. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin-left: 4.5pt; text-indent: -4.5pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">UPDATE: They don't. Andrew was from Orange County, New York. According to his death certificate, his parents were John Frederick Spence and Catherine Andrews.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #453b33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps someone reading this blog can provide information. Meanwhile, I'll do a separate post about the Goff connection.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-29651440770477547302010-12-22T15:58:00.000-05:002010-12-22T15:58:13.874-05:00More about William Nace, Jr.I've posted previously about <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/08/william-nace-jr.html">William M. Nace, Jr.</a>, but I keep finding more information. Thanks to the Lecompton Historical Society, another article on William is <a href="http://www.lecomptonkansas.com/pdfs/Bald.Eagle.Vol7.No3.Fall.1981.pdf">available online</a>:<br />
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From the above article, we know William's middle name—MacDowell—and that he owned a historic piece of property. A <a href="http://www.lecomptonkansas.com/index.php?doc=hist-ft-titus.php">post</a> on the Lecompton Historical Society's website gives us a look at this property that William Jr. owned:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">This article provides us with information about Nace ancestors' military service: the first John C. Nace was a captain in the Revolutionary War; William Sr. fought in the War of 1812. </div><br />
And William Jr. himself was involved in the Civil War. Unlike his brother <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/08/john-c-nace.html">John C</a>., who was in the 22nd Virginia, William fought for the North. (You can find info about Price's Raid <a href="http://www.legendsofkansas.com/priceraid.html">here</a>.)<br />
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I wonder what William's family back in Virginia thought about his Union sympathies.<br />
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On a hunch, because <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/08/william-nace-jr.html">William Nace Jr.</a> and Matthew were in <a href="http://www.lecomptonkansas.com/">Lecompton, Kansas</a>, I did a bit of Googling. I didn't find much—no evidence of a marriage, no death date, etc.—but I did confirm that he was indeed in Lecompton. I found this picture of the Rowena Hotel posted on the <i><a href="http://www.lecomptonkansas.com/index.php?doc=walk-sites.php&site=9">Historic Lecompton</a></i> website: <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another issue of the <i><a href="http://www.lecomptonkansas.com/pdfs/Bald.Eagle.Vol20.No4.Winter.1994.pdf">Bald Eagle</a></i> (Vol. 20, No. 4, Winter) had another story about the Rowena on pages 2 and 3—and another mention of Robert Nace.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>The LHS Newsletter Archive</b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>Volume Twenty, Issue Number 4</b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Originally Published in <span style="background-color: #a1ffff;"><b>Lecompton</b></span>, Kansas : Winter 1994</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Digitally Archived August 2006</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 19px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>THE ROWENA HOTEL</b></div><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Kansas had been opened as a territory in Au-</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">gust, 1854. The center of the government organized</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">at Fort Leavenworth at the United States Army Base.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">After a year of seeking an appropriate place for a</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">capital, <span style="background-color: #a1ffff;">Lecompton</span>, K.T. was chosen. There were</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">few dwellings there, so investors hurried to the town</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">to build hotels and houses. The territorial government</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">would soon meet there in addition to the U.S. govern-</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">ment offices, so good accommodations were a neces-</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">sity.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">The need for a lavish hotel in which the govern-</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">ment officials could be quartered was of great impor-</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">tance because many of them would be from the east</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">and accustomed to a more elaborate standard of</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">living than was available on the newly organized</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">frontier. As aresult, Aristides Roderigue organized a</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">group to invest in such an undertaking. The group</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">selected a plan for alarge stone hotel. As there were </blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">no stone masons in the area, Roderigue went to St.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Louis, Mo. to find some. There he engaged Mark</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Migliario to go to <span style="background-color: #a1ffff;">Lecompton</span> to build the hotel, and</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">his brother Constantine soon joined him, as he too</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">was a skilled stone mason. They were both Italian</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">immigrants and soon decided to make <span style="background-color: #a1ffff;">Lecompton</span></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">their home on a farm west and south of town, and later</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">built a large stone house where they lived the rest of</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">their lives, and it is still inhabited.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">The hotel building was started in 1857 and com-</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">pleted in 1858, was to be 45' by 90', have 9 rooms on</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">the second floor, lIon the third, 5 on the first,</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">besides an office and a large dining room. There was</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">also aseries of work rooms down in the lower level.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">It was to be heated with stoves, lighted with lamps or</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">candles, and have outdoor plumbing. There were to</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">be seven cisterns in the basement which would be</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">pumped into a large tank on a scaffold on the west</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">side as the water source. </blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">The exterior of the hotel had 4 entrances on the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">east, south, and west. The south entrance had a large</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">flat rock inlaid in the ground that served as a porch</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">that led to the beautiful double entrance glass doors</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">and across to the west side. Also carefully cut small</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">stones were inlaid in the area that framed the doors.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">The east side of the building had along" strip" stair-</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">case that led from the street directly up to the door</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">which also had alarge glass section in it.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Three huge chimneys rose above the roof and</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">accommodated all the stoves in the building, even the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">kitchen stove. There was a steep staircase on the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">west side of the building, that provided access to the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">second floor and care for the water tank. There was</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">also an entrance on the west that opened to the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">kitchen area and was a place to receive groceries and</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">other merchandise.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">S.D. Hemingway was the first proprietor, Charles</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Montandon was in charge of the saloon then in one of</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">the lower rooms in the basement, as was a barber and</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">repairman. The Kansas Stage Company's Office was</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">in the hotel, and stages left daily for all parts of the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Territory, and it also made connection with Missouri</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">River Steamers and the Hannibul and St. Joseph</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Railroad.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">When the Rowena Hotel opened for business, it</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">was considered the most lavish hotel west of the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Missouri River. It was very comfortable and had a</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">competent staff. The Territorial officers preferred to</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">stay there. On Jan. 2, 1859 there were fifty-four</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">guests registered at the hotel and the next day only</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">25. This was at the time the legislature was to meet,</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">and they were adjourning the meetings to Lawrence,</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">wanting to avoid <span style="background-color: #a1ffff;">Lecompton</span> and her reputation for</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">favoring slavery.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">The Rowena had been financed by a group of</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">people who promised to pay $500.00 each. Mr.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Leamer and Robert Stevens had participated in that</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">investment. In 1858when the Free State Legislature</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">voted to move to Lawrence, the federal officers</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">voted to remain at the Rowena, going to Lawrence</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">only when they had business to transact. The Rowena</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">had been doing well until then, but after that it started</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">losing money and needed the investors to come forth</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">with their money. Mr. Leamer signed the $8,000 note</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">but none of the others did. After the hotel failed</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Leamer stepped forward again and paid the whole</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">$8,000 plus $2,000 to pay other expenses. None of</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">the other participants helped. </blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">In addition to that the chef had ordered groceries costing over $500.00</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">which he also paid.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Entertainment became an important part of the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">activities at the hotel. A large saloon was under the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">supervision of <span style="background-color: #fffe5f;">Robert Nace</span> a former native of the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">"old dominion," so he was amply able to conduct the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">saloon in a quality way. Hemingway had recently</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">erected in the Rowena Hall two of Brunswick & Co.'s</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">celebrated marble "bed Billiard" tables and that also</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">attracted customers.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">The dining room was aplace for entertainment</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">and conversation. In 1858 when James Denver was</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">appointed Territorial Governor, and the territorial</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">legislature was in session, the place was full to over-</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">flowing. A guest entered, very excited over news he</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">had just been told, that gold had been discovered in</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">neighboring Colorado. During the discussion, a group,</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">primarily legislators and U.S. government officials,</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">decided to organize a small wagon train and send</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">them to Colorado to a place in the Rocky Mountains,</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">where they would stake out claims for their backers</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">and also to plat a town there, as that was still a part</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">of Kansas Territory. A caravan was put together and</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">left from the Hotel. It traveled west for several weeks,</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">finally arriving at the site ofthe gold discovery. Upon</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">investigation it was found that all desirable claims had</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">been taken. However, the group staked out a town</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">and platted it before leaving. The government needed</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">that done, as so many people were going there to</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">settle and some organization was essential. They then</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">left for <span style="background-color: #a1ffff;">Lecompton</span>. On their last day of the trip they</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">conceived the idea of killing all varieties of wild game</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">they could get, clean and skin it, then upon their</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">arrival at the hotel, give it to the chef to prepare a big</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">dinner for that night and invited all their promoters to</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">a wild game feast, perhaps to try to compensate for</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">the lack of gold claims. This was done, and at the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">feast that evening, they were discussing what to name</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">the new town, and couldn't agree. Just then Gov.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Denver entered the room, and several enthusiastically</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">yelled, "Call it Denver. "It was met with loud cheers,</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">and it was so named. That is how the big city of</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Denver, Colorado was platted and named. So the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">results of the trip were a city well planned, a wonder-</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">ful meal, and a city well named.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">In January, 1859, the hotel keepers made prepa-</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">rations for the multitude of people who would come</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">to the territorial land sale. They came from all over the</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">east, south and west to buy land for farms or for</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">homes, so the hotels were always over crowded.</blockquote>But what eventually happened to Robert? Did he go to Denver with the multitude? The Denver Public Library posted a list of the "<a href="http://history.denverlibrary.org/research/fiftyniners/W.html">Fifty-niner's Directory, Colorado Argonauts, 1858-1859</a>" in which Robert Nace, while not listed, was mentioned:<br />
<blockquote><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">WYNKOOP, Edward W., came with the Lecompton Party 1858, and a street in Denver still bears his name. He was a member of the Denver City Town Company, and lived here, but was also a resident of Arapahoe Village in this year, and later. In the diary of Jackson, published by Hall, he is said to be one of the proprietors of that place. In 1859 he was a friend of Bliss, and in the noted duel between that pioneer and Dr. J. S. Stone, on Mar 5, Wynkoop was his Second. (See under these names, also see files RMN of date.)</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The following record from Arapahoe County Land Records, Liber D, p. 275, old, gives a little information: Edward W. Wynkoop, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">partner of Robert M. Nace of Lecompton, Kansas Territory</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">, grantors, Sep 5, 1859, to Jerome Kunkle of Rising Sun, Jefferson County, Kansas, consideration $400” (here follows description of lands or lots), “all their goods and chattels, mortgaged,” the grantors acknowledging paper in Dauphin County, Kansas. This was recorded in Denver Feb 15, 1860: Mr. Wynkoop did not withdraw from the community at this time, for there is a mention in the Colorado Republican and Rocky Mountain Herald, Aug 24, 1861 as follows: Married, in this City, Wednesday, Aug 21, 1861, at Mr. Wakeley’s on Larimer Street, by Rev. Mr. Kehler, Lieut. Edward W. Wynkoop and Miss Louisa M. Brown, both of Denver. Later it is stated in the paper of Apr 15, 1882 (or near that date) that “Ned Wynkoop, a pioneer of 1858, is visiting friends in Denver, and is much surprized at the City’s growth.” This was quoted in the reminiscent column of the Rocky Mountain Herald, Apr 17, 1926.</span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What became of Robert? Another Nace family mystery. . . .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">~</div>Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-29361052086367613242010-12-19T10:56:00.001-05:002020-11-08T16:16:45.848-05:00Nace Settlement<div style="font: 12px Helvetica; margin: 0px;">
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Botetourt County Court Clerks Office, September 2nd 1863. This Sale Bill of the personal property of <a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/12/william-naces-will.html">William Nace dec'd</a> was this day returned to said office and admitted to record.</blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 Shovel Plough (.45)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 Cotter & Mattock (2.00)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The estate wasn't completely settled until February 1864. Here's a transcription Pat Nace sent to me several years ago:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know that his oldest son, </span><a href="http://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2010/08/william-nace-jr.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">William M. Nace, Jr.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, was in LeCompton, Kansas, at this time and that John C. Nace was in Botetourt. But what became of Matthew H. Nace? Apparently he wasn't in Botetourt County when his father died. Where was he?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I Googled and found </span><a href="http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=neldastephenson&id=I9403"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=neldastephenson&id=I9403">Evaline Ann Frances Christian</a></span> was born ABT 1830, and died BEF 1908. She married <a href="http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=neldastephenson&id=I15347"><span style="background-color: #fffe5f;"><b>Matthew H Nace</b></span></a>, son of William N [M?] Nace. He was born ABT 1824 in Virginia. She married <a href="http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=neldastephenson&id=I15350"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Robert William Pate</span></a> ABT 1849. He died ABT 1868. </span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Update: This information is mostly false. </span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #38761d;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times;">Matthew and Evaline had a child, Jennie Nace, born in 1849. (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The source given for this is the</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times;">1850 </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Richmond, Virginia, Census</span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: black;">.) <span style="color: #cc0000;">Actually they had more than one child.</span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Now, where did Matthew meet his wife? Evaline's mother was </span></span><a href="http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=neldastephenson&id=I8685"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Saluda Baker (Fuqua) Christian Watson</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, who was born </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">02 NOV 1805 in Charlotte County, Virginia, and died </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">09 NOV 1886 in Lecompton, Douglas County, Kansas. She is buried in the Lecompton West Cemetery. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Did Matthew go with his brother to Kansas and die about the time his daughter was born? <span style="color: #cc0000;">No.</span> Or—did he somehow end up in New York in 1856 as the head of the failing Nace & Company? If so, did he run away to California—or was he indeed driven to self-destruction—when the business failed? Or was it a different Matthew H. Nace in New York? <span style="color: #cc0000;">Answer at bottom of this post.</span><br /></span></div>
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This probably isn't the Matthew H. Nace from Botetourt. [<span style="color: red;">UPDATE; It is. See</span> <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2018/07/matthew-harvey-nace.html">https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2018/07/matthew-harvey-nace.html</a>] It is surely a coincidence that this Matthew H. Nace has a brother W. M. and a father who was alive in 1856. There were a lot of Naces in Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as in Virginia, and Matthew and William were common names in the mid-1800s. <span style="color: red;">[But our Matthew Nace is indeed the one who wrote the above letter.] </span><br />
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So—the unsettling questions is this: Whatever happened to Matthew H. Nace? Anybody know? <span style="color: red;">Eventually I solved the mystery. See these two posts:<br /></span></div><span style="color: red;">
</span><div style="font: 16px Times; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></div><div style="font: 16px Times; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-i.html">https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-i.html</a></div><div style="font: 16px Times; margin: 0px;">and <a href="https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-ii.html">https://nacelithia.blogspot.com/2019/04/matthew-nace-mystery-part-ii.html</a></div><div style="font: 16px Times; margin: 0px;"><br /></div>
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Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700926064354404413.post-56086928754482125772010-12-17T16:15:00.000-05:002010-12-17T16:15:38.865-05:00Wm. Nace Inventory<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After William Nace had died in the spring of 1863, three men</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">—Joseph Robinson*, Madison Waskey, and Joel Booze</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">—were appointed by the court to inventory his possessions. Although much of his personal property was left to his widow, Martha Lackland Nace, some items would be sold at auction in August.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">What he owned at the time of his death tells us a good deal about his life:</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9 Hogs</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">72.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Bay Mare</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">400.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">16 Sheared Sheep</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">160.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4 2-Horse Plows</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">24.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 Double Trees & 4 Single Trees</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 Steers</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">100.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Silver Watch</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">50.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Saddle & Blanket</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">30.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Secretary</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">50.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Medicine Box</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Wardrobe</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">30.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Bureau, Looking Glass, & Lamps</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">26.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Lot of Bed Clothing</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">200.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">16 Sheets</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">80.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5 Pillow Cases</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">21 Towels</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">12.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 Willow Baskets</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 Pair Sheets 40.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Lot Jars & Demi-Jars 10.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Iron Kettle</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Tea Kettle & Oven</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Lot Pots & Ovens</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Pair Standards & Candle Mould</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Shot run & Powder Flask</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Amount Bonds</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">732.43</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Cart</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">30.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Wagon</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">75.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Buggy & harness</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">250.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Bay Horse</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">500.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 pair Plow Gear</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Harness</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8 Shovel Plows & 2 Coveter [Coulter?]</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Cow & Calf</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">60.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Grey Horse</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 Riding Bridles</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Negro Man</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">800.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Table</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9 Windsor Chairs</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">18.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Clock</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3 Feather Beds & Bedding</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">225.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9 Bed quilts</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">100.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">18 Table Cloths</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">90.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6 Pair Pillow Cases</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7 pieces Toilet</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9 Counter Pins [Panes?]</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">90.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Walnut Chest & Table</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Copper Kettle</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">30.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Cooking Stove & Furn.</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">45.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Safe</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 Brass Kettles</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 Small Tubs</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.50</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Lot Dinnerware</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">100.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Amount Money on hand</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">560.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 Pair Saddle Pockets</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10.00</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Swingletree & 2 Lock Chains</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10.00</span></span></li>
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<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And the money is left in the hands of Mrs. Nace.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">—Joseph F. Robinson, Madison Waskey, Joel Booze</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We the above named appraisers have fairly and impartially appraised the property above to the best of our skill and judgment this 3oth day of May 1863.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Botetourt County Clerks Office June 8 1863</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This inventory of the real & personal property of William Nace dec'd was this day exhibited in said Office and admitted to record.</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Test, F. Waltz, Clerk</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">*In one place Joseph's middle initial is T; in another, it's F.</span></span></div>Becky Mushkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.com0