Located on the Tom Duffey place which is 1.5 miles west of Simpsonville.

Read by Bill Starnes & Cloddie Hinson,  Nov 27, 1998.
Submitted by the Upshur County Historical Commission.

As hard as we all try, we are human and sometimes when reading a cemetery we miss a grave covered with leaves, fireants, or bushes. Sometimes the headstone has sunk and is mostly underground. Our area also has many graves only marked with iron ore rocks and even many unmarked graves. There are headstones that have long ago been destroyed by the elements or even vandalizm, and are hard to impossible to read the details. We would appreciate it if you would let us know if you did not find your relative which was buried here, and would appreciate your letting us use the information you know about them. With the combined efforts of us all, we can make the Upshur County website bigger and better.

James Pace                                                  
Born:  May 7, 1811        Died:  Dec 19, 1900
Per Ronald Wade - James Pace - Born in Georgia, on 7 Nov 1839 in Troup, Ga. he married Catherine Cohorn (1816 – 1896).  They were living in Troup Co., Ga. during the time of the 1840 Federal Census and by 1850 they were in Carroll Co., Ga.  By 1870 they had moved to Upshur Co., Texas.  Their children included Sarah Elizabeth Pace born about 1841, Thomas Pace born about 1845, Mary Pace born about 1847, James Pace born about 1848, Martha Pace born about 1850, Benn Pace born about 1852, John Pace born about 1854, Alexander Pace (1855-1869 buried also here), Amanda Pace born about 1856 and William Pace born about 1858.  I feel that both James and James Jr. both 1848 served in the same unit in the Civil War but have yet to confirm this.  Alexander probably served as well.

(Cat) harine Pace  (think, stone is broken)  
Born:  Feb 4, 1816           Died:  Nov 17, 1896
An earlier reading gives the above as:
Catherine             w/o James Pace; m. Nov 8, 1839
b. Feb 4, 1816        d. Nov 17, 1896
Per Ronald Wade - Catherine Pace, married James Pace (1811-1900) on 7 Nov 1839 in Troup, Ga.  Their children included Sarah Elizabeth Pace born about 1841, Thomas Pace born about 1845 and served as a Private in Co. I, 14th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Johnson's Mounted Volunteers) , Mary Pace born about 1847, James Pace born about 1848, Martha Pace born about 1850, Benn Pace born about 1852, John Pace born about 1854, Alexander Pace (1855-1869 buried also here), Amanda Pace born about 1856 and William Pace born about 1858.

Alexander Pace 
Born:  Apr 16, 1855          Died:  Mar 4, 1869
Per Ronald Wade - Alexander "Alex" Pace, born the son of James Pace (1811-1900) and Catherine Pace (1816-1896). 

Cemetery appears to have been bulldozed at one time----markers probably disturbed and possibly graves lost.
 

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