Subject: Re: [VAALBEMA] RE: HISHOLM, GIANNINY, GAINES, HUMPHREY, MULLINS, AND PACE Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:22:48 -0800 From: "Heather Olsen" <kitchen6@earthlink.net> To: VAALBEMA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VAALBEMA] RE: HISHOLM, GIANNINY, GAINES, HUMPHREY, MULLINS, AND PACE > Hello Rosie B. > and Agnita > I am interested in your Pace connection > mine is as follows , no parents for Mary Polly I am not researching the PACE family, however, and not documented by me I have a Mildred PACE married to Rev. William BASKETT, in the Albemarle/Fluvanna area, they are the parents of Elizabeth 'Betsy' BASKETT who married John Tate KENT (my family). They were married in Aug 1798, in Fluvanna County. I think that Rev. Baskett was a Baptist minister, as that branch of my KENT family settled in Antioch and started a Baptist Church there so you might try any church records that are there. Heather Kent Olsen Ft. Lewis WA ------------------------ Heather, Thanks for that reference. It's too small a world! I seem to recall a side-ways connection to Milly Pace Baskett (a distant cousin to my Benjamin Pace), though the details are escaping me at this moment. It's been so long since I looked at this material. And, while I'm not related by blood to Rev. Baskett, one of my PARRISH relatives was the second husband to one of his daughters. Can't recall which relative or daughter right off (it's too late for heavy thinking tonight), just that the offspring were from another marriage, so I'm not related to the good Reverend. There's a wonderful footnote about Rev. and Mrs. Baskett in "The History of the Virginia Baptists." The original book was published in the early 1800s, updated and reprinted some years later, and then reprinted again in the 1890s. The footnote from the second edition tells of their passing, a few days apart, and the large memorial service. There's also a mention of one of his daughters who went to Kentucky as bride to another noted minister. (I found a copy of the book in the Library of Virginia.) My Italian immigrant, Antonio Giannini (later Anthony Gianniny), became an apparently itenerent Baptist minister in his 50s, and performed many marriages in the Albemarle/Nelson/Fluvanna area. We've found a description of his preaching as a guest at a service in Lynchburg, but so far haven't turned up any of his church records. best, Rosanna Bencoach