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Does this Chumbley belong to any of you?
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From: "GEORGE PARK" <mjp(a)rivnet.net>
To: <galati4(a)neok.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 11:57 AM
Subject: PML Search Result matching Chumley
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> Subject: [PACE-L] Civil War Soldiers
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>
> I believe # 21 on the NC Civil War Soldiers list is the John Pace who
> died in Camp Douglas, Illinois Feb 6, 1865
>
> >From Confederats Soldiers, Sailors and Civilians Who Died as
Prisoners
> of War at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, 1862-1865 , he is listed
two
> names down from my gg grandfather, Burrell Verner Pace. I believe Dr.
> Jones told me they were cousins, but I have not checked to see where
> this John fit in the family. I sincerely hope they knew (or became
> acquainted with) each other and were of some comfort to each other in
> that premature end to their lives.
>
> Can someone confirm the above?
>
> A total of 4,454 men are buried at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. A
> large monument was erected (1895)over what is called Confederate
Mound
> and names are inscribed on bronze placques and added in 1910.
>
> To be noted, from the book above, my ancestor's name was misspelled as
> Barnell Pace, so I assume that is the spelling on the placque. He died
> January 28, 1865. He was 47 years old.
>
> Of interest to note is that the ONE Hardin/Pace/Doyal close cousin
who
> has worked with me and supplied me with pictures etc. is Vange
McWhorter
> Koch. She grew up in Chicago, and neithershe or her mother Altie
Doyal
> McWhorter, granddaughter of Burrell, knew that the buriel place was
> right across town from them.
>
> I have never been able to find our the particulars, but my guess is
that
> he was riding with the Home Guard Unit and they were involved in a
> skirmish, perhaps as far away as the work at the Battle of Nashville.
I
> am not a CW historian, and this is my best guess.
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>
> My Burrell Verner Pace's CW information is as follows. He was in
> Alabama, and these are my informal notes:
> Burl Verner and his wife Hannah Hardin along with one daughter,
> Isabella moved from their home in the area of Greenville District, SC
> and Henderson Co. NC to homestead in North Alabama. Records of the
land
> they purchased are listed below.. They came a long way to reach this
> land. At least two of Hannah's siblings came about the same
> time--Harriet and her husband, Henry Norman and Samuel, who married
> after he reached DeKalb Co. AL Six children were born to Hannah and
> Burrell
>
> >From Application of Widows of Deceased Soldiers of the Confederate
> States of Alabama, Burrell Pace was a private in Capt, Wiley Newman's
> Alabama Volunteers under Col Cas. Newman.He was captured in November,
> 1864 ( this date of capture from a letter written by his daughter,
> Isabella Pace Patrick)and Burrell died a prisoner at Camp Douglas, IL
on
> Jan. 28, 1865. Note: this Wiley Newman is the grandfather or great
uncle
> of Moses Newman who married Mayme Ruth Doyal, Burrell's granddaughter.
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>
> Broadfoot lists 3 men in the Wiley Newman's Unit, listed above, W.L.
> Cain, 2nd Lt. William Y or T Chumley and Burrell Pace.
> On Hannah's widow's pension, her address is given as "Chumley"- in
other
> places as Hendrixville
>
> Hannah lived for more than 45 years after Burrell's death. She never
> remarried, but in turn she gave each of her children about 50 acres of
> ridge land, and they all lived in a row for some time. After her
death,
> the children began to move.
> Jeanne Park
>