Re: Buckner Pace
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Buckner Pace
Jane Doe 2/11/12
Do you mean that the Francis Pace, son of Richard Pace and Sarah Woodlief, may have been grandfather of Buckner? I thought it was pretty well established that Buckner was born ca. 1735. Francis was born in around 1718, right? He died ca. 1791 in Dinwiddie County, which was formed from Prince George County in 1752 (Brunswick was formed from Prince George in 1720).
Buckner's daughter, Tabitha, married Jesse Gill, who was born ca. 1767, in 1792 in Wake County. If Buckner was of age in 1777 to jointly sell, he was born before 1756. If Tabitha was of average marrying age in 1792, she was born before 1772, making Buckner more likely born before 1750. I imagine that the first records of Buckner Pace, in terms of time, make him born even earlier.
The newspaper article concerning his tragic demise puts him at about 1740 for a time of birth (and a death date of June 23, 1811):
"Wake County, NC - Mr. & Mrs. Bucknet Pace, 1811
Raleigh, NC - July 5
Dreadful Occurrence
A letter from a respectable gentleman of this county, mentions the occurrence of an awful incident on the night of Sunday the 23d ult.
On that evening, he states, there was the most violent storm ever witnessed by any of the inhabitants. During it continuance, the house of a Mr. Buckner Pace was struck with lightning, and almost entirely consumed; most of the white people of the plantation being absent, and only one black woman and a boy remaining at some distance in their hut.
Out informant observes that he was called on the next morning by John Davis, Esq. to go and examine the spot. They found the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Pace, with their dwelling house, reduced to ashes. They were lying, one on each bed, with their heads across towards the wall. It was supposed from this that they had sat down on the beds at the commencement of the storm and perhaps afterwards lain down.
The bodies were entirely consumed and at the end of the house where the beds stook were found fractured pieces of wood, shingles, rafters, &c supposed to have been torn off by the lightning. The site was most afflicting that he, and hundres of others, had ever seen.
Mr. and Mrs. Pace were about 70 years of age, had been long respectable inhabitants of Wake County and have left three children behind them. Their remains were decently interred.
The storm took place after dark and the old black woman and boy had fallen asleep while the rain continued. When they awoke finding the dwelling house in flames, they attempted to alarm the neighbors but no assistance was procured until morning."
Source: Poulson's American Daily Advertiser - July 12, 1811
I believe this disproves the notion that he was a grandson of Francis Pace, who was born ca. 1718, who did not have his son John Pace (who married Ann Russell) until about 1749.
Francis Pace could have been Buckner's father. A Richard Pace who died in 1736 in Bertie County, NC and named a wife Rebecca had a daughter named Tabitha who married a John Moore.
The more I look at the clues, the more I see a relationship to the family that came from Richard Pace and Sarah Woodlief, however many generations after them Buckner was born...
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