HI I saw your question on Dempsey Pace Bastrop Co, TX land. He was one of the 8 children of Gideon Pace,( 1828 settler in Austin Colony), who died in September 1829 leaving the children orphans. Four of his sons, James R., William C., Wesley W., and Dempsey C. fought at the battle of San Jacinto. James and Dempsey also fought at the Battle of Bexar. They were from TN. Gideon was the son of William Pace and Sisely Walker. In the Biographies of the San Jacinto Veterans prepared by Mr. Kemp...He states they are from VA. Which is not correct. MR Kemp assumed that the Gideon Pace sons were the sons of a William Pace from Sabine Co. TX.-- Who had 8 children and was from VA. William DeWees was Guardian of the Pace Children. Dempsey Council Pace married Elizabeth Dabney in Columbus, Colorado CO TX in 1845 They had 4 Children, Wayne(died 1861), Robert James( my Great-G Grandfather),Laura Pace Keylick, and Dempsey C Pace II( he was born in Dec 1851 after his fathers death in Oct. 1851. -----Original Message----- From: pace-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pace-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of pace-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:01 AM To: pace@rootsweb.com Subject: PACE Digest, Vol 5, Issue 32 Today's Topics: 1. Steger Creek Stores in Va-owned by Michael & Alex Pace (Lois L. Carey) 2. Re: Pace Land Records for The Republic of Texas and The State of Texas... (Fpg0663@wmconnect.com) 3. George Robin Pierce m. Elvira Mc Claren Steger (Lois L. Carey) 4. Pace Land Records for The Republic of Texas and the State of Texas... (Kim Stracener Zapalac) 5. New Pierce-Pace John of M posting (Roy Johnson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:27:37 -0500 From: "Lois L. Carey" <lcarey34@verizon.net> Subject: [PACE] Steger Creek Stores in Va-owned by Michael & Alex Pace To: <PACE-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <9021D52E4EE24783802BD59F6C51E994@yourw04gtxld67> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" iIf you google Steger Creek you will read of the ancesty of the owners Michael & Alex Pace which says Michael Pace is the gre-grandson of Robert Septimus Pace and the Grandson of Robert Stanley Pace and the son of Stafford Buck Pace. These paces are descendent of William Moment Pace who was born 1806 and married Dicy King. I believe there is some connection between my Pace family and theirs because of a chancery suit brought against them by my grandfather, John Walker Pace b. 1843, who has been connected to John Of Middlesex thru DNA To my knowledge no descendent of William Moment Pace has done the DNA test although Mr. Robert Pace who is elderly but still lives in Fluvanna did agree to do it several years ago. He has never been married and lives alone in Troy,Va I understand he has many antiques from the Pace family at his home. Would love to know if they have the same DNA ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:58:40 EST From: Fpg0663@wmconnect.com Subject: Re: [PACE] Pace Land Records for The Republic of Texas and The State of Texas... To: pace@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <f5a3.2b940115.38bfd320@wmconnect.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" KIM, I wonder which Dempsey Pace this was who bought land in Bastrop Co., TX. He stated he had been in Bastrop Co., TX abt. 1828 and was a single man. He bought 1,476.13 acres and it sure was cheap at that time. Thanks, Addie</HTML> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:17:30 -0500 From: "Lois L. Carey" <lcarey34@verizon.net> Subject: [PACE] George Robin Pierce m. Elvira Mc Claren Steger To: <Pace-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <40B10511337043E586FDAB887315B1E9@yourw04gtxld67> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I Have a lot of info in my records about this family For Starters- In Fluvanna County ,Va lives a Robert Pace whose family supposedly bought land from a Steger family . I have the following: William Maclaren Steger b. July 31, 1807 in Buckingham County,Va + Maria Louisa Seargeant Sept 1831-Buckingham Co Va Their daughter Elvira McClaren Steger b. 1845 in Christian County, Ky(western part of the state) + George Robin Pierce m. on Nov 18, 1862 I believe some of this info in from the Fluvanna co historical Society Bulletins Also in Va there is a store which uses the name Steger because they have some connection to fhe Fluvanna County Stegers. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:54:11 -0600 From: "Kim Stracener Zapalac" <zapnyou@aol.com> Subject: [PACE] Pace Land Records for The Republic of Texas and the State of Texas... To: <pace@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <001701cabb1c$10676390$31362ab0$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm not sure which Dempsey Pace this may be. The El Camino Real (Kings Highway) runs through Bastrop (Mina). This Dempsey Pace settled around the time that Stephen F. Austin set up the "Little Colony" of 100 families in this area, so I would think you might start with some of those sources. Another famous Texas family that came from this group was the Burleson families along with some other families that came from the Nacogdoches/Natchitoches areas (again located on the El Camino Real as was San Antonio). Another source might be the Catholic church in this area. Remember that they were "supposed" to practice the Catholic faith to be able to settle in Texas. And people left this area after The Republic of Texas and later State of Texas formed to new land grants either for their service or for other "free" land. Kim ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:35:30 -0600 From: "Roy Johnson" <royj@webster.edu> Subject: [PACE] New Pierce-Pace John of M posting To: <pace@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <001801cabb43$5b8646d0$1292d470$@edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I just posted the alleles on the John of Middlesex chart for our second Pierce who matches with Pace and the other Pierce but not with anyone else on the Pierce study. http://www.pacesociety.org/DNA/JohnOfM.htm Jack Pace has sent me a whole bunch of Pierce-Pace records that I have not had time to analyze. Apparently Pierce and Pace surnames were interchanged often in the Shropshire area and in the Middlesex area (including descending lines) . However, I have not seen instances of this interchange in other Pace lines. Has anyone? If this is a peculiarity of Shropshire and Middlesex, it further corroborates the Shropshire origins of John of M, although I think we have enough evidence already. I have not yet posted the short lineage of this donor, but I will try to get it up soon. Roy Johnson ------------------------------ To contact the PACE list administrator, send an email to PACE-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the PACE mailing list, send an email to PACE@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of PACE Digest, Vol 5, Issue 32 ***********************************