Some of you may want to check the 14 Oct 2000 Kingsport Times-News item below shown below. Only thing I see wrong with the Item is the location is not in Haynes Valley but that is close enough. The URL is www.timesnews.net Jim Brown Scott Revolutionary War veteran honored with new grave marker Fred Thrasher of the Abingdon chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution parades the colors at Jones Cemetery in Scott County. Ken Murray by KEVIN CASTLE YUMA — The playing of “Taps’’ echoed through the fall-painted mountains of Haynes Valley as William Pace’s ancestors gathered to say “thank you” from a grateful nation. Sons of the American Revolution chapters of Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, and Alabama converged at the Jones Family Cemetery Friday to honor Pace, who was one of then-Gen. George Washington’s elite troopers during the Revolutionary War. According to Bill Bellomy, president of the S.A.R.’s Texas chapter and Pace’s great-great-great-grandson, the war patriot was one of Washington’s hand-picked Life Guards, or bodyguards, who protected the general in all situations and stood guard outside his various battlefield headquarters. Pace became a member of the 14th Regiment of the Virginia Continental Army at the age of 31, later on becoming one of 47 Life Guards for Washington. At the end of the war, Pace was one of only four of the guards remaining. Bellomy also noted during the ceremony that Pace once camped out behind Independence Hall in Philadelphia and is one of the only documented soldiers to be on the soldier roll at Valley Forge, Pa. Pace was also involved in some of the war’s historic battles, including engagements at Brandywine and Germantown, Pa., Monmouth, N.J., and Yorktown, Va. He later moved to Scott County from Fluvanna County, passing away at the age of 70 in 1815, according to Bellomy. “I am a descendant of a person who made a difference, who kept one of the nation’s greatest leaders alive. As a result of that, we have a nation that is unlike any other,’’ said Bellomy. “With the events in Yemen that took the lives of American soldiers recently, it makes you think of the price some people will pay to keep our country safe. Events like those are tragic, but I hope they bring people in our nation closer together.’’ The new marker was placed on the gravesite Friday morning and formally dedicated during the ceremony. Bellomy said that weather and time had taken its toll on the original shale marker. The modern concrete marker bears these words: IN MEMORY OFWILLIAM PACE SGT. CONTINENTAL ARMY GEORGE WASHINGTON’S LIFE GUARD 1745 — 1815 The Veterans of Foreign Wars Chapter 3382 of Kingsport presented the colors of America for the ceremony.