Descendants of Richard PACE Gentleman

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65. Joseph Thomas PACE

RECORD: National Archives, Military Records, Conferate Records, Louisiana

Joseph T. Pace, Pvt. Co. B 12 La. Inf., enlisted Feb. 25, 1862 at Arcadia, Louisiana by Capt. Standifer.  J. T. Pace was captured and paroled at Vicksburg on 4 July 1863.

RECORD:  1880 SOUNDEX LOUISIANA, Vol. 3, E.D. 14, Sheet 22, Line 8, Claiborne Parish, Ward 6:
Pace, Jos. T., White, Male, 35, born Georgia
Pace, Alabama, Wife, 20, born Lousiana
Pace, Benj., Son, 3, born Louisiana
Pace, Wm., Son, 1, born Louisiana

RECORD:  1900 SOUNDEX LOUISIANA, Vol. 10, E.D. 22, Sheet 12, Line 13, Claiborne Parish, Ward 6:
Pace, Joe T., White, 55, born May 1845, Georgia
Pace, Sarah, Wife, 45, born June 1855, Louisiana
Pace, William, Son, 21, born Oct. 1879, Louisiana
Pace, John B., Son, 16, born Aug. 1884, Louisiana
Pace, Emma, Daughter, 12, born Nov. 1888, Louisiana Pace, James, Son, 10, born Jan. 1890, Louisiana

RECORD:  1910 SOUNDEX LOUISIANA, E.D. 24 Sheet 12, Claiborne Parish Pace, Joseph T., White, 65, born Georgia
Pace, Sarah A., Wife, 55
Pace, Benjamin W., Son, 31
Pace, Emma E., Daughter, 22
Pace, Sarah T., Daughter in law, 20, born Texas
Pace, Elvin L., Grandson, 12
Pace, Willie May, Granddaughter, 9
Pace, George F., Grandson, 5
Pace, Vera G., Granddaughter, 2
Pace, James J., Grandson, 1-1/12

Sarah Alabama MASK

RECORD: U.S. Census - 1860 - Clairborne Parish, LA

75. Mary Ann Rebecca PACE

RECORD:  Just Folk, The Crowell Family of Louisiana, Joyce Parker Hervey, privately printed, 1984.

    After her husband (Jesse's) death, Mary lived with her children, particularly with Hattie. She was a great story teller. Her granddaughter, Pauline Young, remembers sitting around the fireplace in their home at Hurricane (about 1934-1938) listening to "Grandma" tell stories about growing up in the woods where the wild animals, especially the panthers, howled at night.

    Mary spent her last years living in Dubach with her daughter Gladys (Young) Jones. Gladys had divorced her husband when her children all left home, and was happy for her mother to stay with her. When Mary became sick and needed constant care, she was moved to the Meadowview Nursing home in Minden. She suffered a stroke in May 1964 and did not regain consciousness. She died about a week afterwards, on May 12, 1964, and was buried at the Hurricane Cemetery next to her husband. Several of her children are buried nearby.

    Mary's obituary appeared in a newspaper: "Mrs. Mary Young Succumbs at 82. Special to the Journal. RUSTON. Mrs. Mary Young, 82, died at 3:15 a.m., today in Meadowview Nursing Home at Minden following a lengthy illness. She was a native of Natchitoches and a member of the Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Hurricane Baptist Church, Arcadia, with the Rev. D. A. Doughty officiating. Burial will be in Hurricane Cemetery, Arcadia under direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston. Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Bertha Boyd, Bossier City, Mrs. Gladys Jones and Mrs. Hattie Colvin, both of Dubach; four sons, E. A. Young, Taylor, Dewey Young, Arcadia, Dallas Young, San Antonio, Tex., and Jack Young, Stockton, Calif.; and 29 grandchildren."

Jesse Moses YOUNG

RECORD:  Just Folk: The Crowell Family of Louisiana, Joyce Parker Hervey, 1984, privately printed, page 320

    Born on the 19th of April in 1879, in Walton County, Georgia, Jesse Moses Young was the sixth child of seven children born to James Harrison Young and his wife Mary Frances (Greer) Young. He was named for both his grand-fathers.

    When Jesse was about six years old, his mother left Georgia and moved to Louisiana with several of her brothers. Jesse did not see his father again for about 24 years, when he came to Louisiana to visit them about 1909.

    Jesse married Mary Ann Rebecca Pace on August 17, 1897. Their marriage was recorded in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, at Arcadia, but they lived in Claiborne Parish, near Hurricane. Their children went to school and to the Baptist Church at Hurricane. Jesse farmed and kept boarders to support his family. He was described by his daughter-in-law, Leola (Crowell) Young as tall and thin, with a moustache. He was an easy-going man, and he worked hard. Early in his marriage, Jesse and Mary separated, because he had a drinking problem. Mary told him she would not be reconciled with him until he quit drinking. Perhaps she was aided a bit by fate, for one night Jesse had a vivid dream that he had died and gone to Hell. He could hear his hair singeing as he walked through the eternal flames. When he awakened he swore that he would never drink again.

    Jesse developed heart trouble while he was still a relatively young man. He moved his family to Texas, around the Joaquin and Logansport area several times, but the climate in Texas did not agree with him and he had to take his family back to Louisiana. They were in Texas when their eldest son  Audris finished the 8th grade (about 1914).

    When Audris was seventeen years old (about 1918), the Young family again were living in Texas. After the U. S. entered World War I, Audris decided he wanted to be in the army, so he lied about his age and joined. His mother was so upset and made such a fuss about it, that Audris' father went to the Army post and brought Audris home after he had been gone only one month.

    Jesse was seriously ill with a heart ailment and was under doctors orders not to do anything that required physical exertion. He was not to walk fast or too far, and most especially, he was not to work. During the Depression of the  early 1930's, there was scarcely enough money to buy his medicine. Their son, Jack, worked at the C.C.C. camp and sent money to them when he could. If the money did not come, Jesse did without the medicine.

    In the winter of 1935, on January 9th, Jesse and his youngest son Preaus were cutting some small pine trees to make posts for a fence around their garden, when Jesse suffered a heart attack, fell over and died immediately. His wife, who was a rather large woman ran to him, having to crawl under a barbed wire fence to reach him, but he breathed only one time after she reached him.

    About the same moment that Jesse died, his daughter-in- law, Leola Young, Audris' wife, was in her house at Watson's sawmill, not too far from Jesse's house. She had been doing the laundry and had a big pile of clothes in the middle of the floor. She turned towards the locked door and saw a vision of Jesse flash in front of the door for an instant. A little while later, Mr. Watson came to the house to tell them that Jesse had died.