George Nace
GEORGE NACE
Born: 23 October 1790, Maryland.
Married: Elizabeth Ann Staley
Died: 11 January 1872, Pike Co., Ohio.
Buried:
Children:
John S., Peter, Dolly, Catherine, Jacob, Margaret, Mary A., and others.
Biography:
George, son of Henry and Magdelena Nace, was born when his parents were enroute to Berkeley Co., (West) Virginia from Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. When a young man, he went down to Boutetourt Co., Virginia where he lived for a number of years. On 11/12 October 1814, he married to Elizabeth Ann Staley, daughter of Jacob Staley, who was born 1792 in Boutetourt Co. They were married by a Rev. John Helms. In 1818, George and his family moved to Pike Co., Ohio where they settled in Mifflin Twp., along Straight Creek. The value of his real estate in 1850 was set at $800. Ten years later that figure rose to $1,100 along with $720 in personal estate. In the 1860 census, his wife appears named as “Betsy”, and at 68 years of age, was listed as “insane”. She was undoubtedly suffering by then from dementia in old age. They lived at that time beside their son John. In 1870, George was apparently a widower and he was living with his grandson Jeremiah Kesling. At 80 years of age, he was then termed as “infirm”. In his younger days, however, George was a farmer, hunter and woodsman. He loved to amuse neighbors and friends with stories of his hunting trips into the wilderness.
Children:
1) John S., born in 1816, Boutetourt Co., Virginia. He was a farmer and married to Mary Ann Kesling, who was born about 1820 in Ohio. They lived in Mifflin Twp. Pike Co., Ohio. They had at least six children, though one source says that they had ten children. He died 22 April 1884, Pike Co., Ohio. He and his wife are buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Sinking Spring, Ohio.
a. Nancy Jane, born 1840 and died in 1897. She married to Leander McKeehan (1833-1900), a blacksmith. They had two children.
b. George Washington, born 22 February 1842 (1900 census Says 1841) and died on his birthday, 1922. He married to Margaret Charlotte Tolle, born February 1838. He was a soldier in the Civil War, serving in 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. A list of Civil War veterans lists him as suffering from "heart and lung disease". He served from October 1862 until March 1863. He and his wife had at least nine children, three of whom had died by 1900.
c. William, born c. 1843.
d. Sanford F., born 13 January 1844. He married Elizabeth Penn on 14 Mary 1878 and died 27 March 1926, in Pike Co., Ohio. He is probably the Sanford Nace who served in the Civil War.
e. Sarah E., born c. 1849, who married to a Bruce.
f. John Franklin, born 28 October 1858, died in 1928. Still single in 1880, he later married to Mary Eva
Barrett (1864-1935). They had five children.
2) Peter, born on 17 April 1817, in Berlin Twp., Pike Co., Ohio. He married on 9 December 1841 to Maria Holten. He died on 23 October 1869 of consumption in Mifflin Twp., Pike Co., Ohio. His wife survived him. He was a farmer and in 1850 his real estate value was listed at $400. In 1860 his real estate was up to $1,200 with personal estate of $795. He was illiterate. In 1870, Maria remained heading up the family there in Mifflin Twp.
a. James, born c. 1843, still single and at home in 1870.
b. George, born c. 1844.
c. Thomas, born c. 1846, still single and at home in 1870.
d. William Henry, born c. 1849, still single and at home in 1870.
e. Mary Ann, born c. 1851.
f. Amy Jane, born c. 1853.
g. Nancy C., born c. 1855.
h. Loduskie, a daughter, born c. 1859.
3) Dolly, born 1819 in Mifflin Twp., Pike Co., Ohio. She married to John Kesling on 12 April 1838 and had nine children. Two of their children had died by October, 1872. She died on 28 February 1883. John died on 19 October 1866 at 47 years, 8 months and 19 days of age. He died at home of cholera, supposed to have been communicated to him while on a visit to Cincinnati.
a. Jeremiah, born 1840 and died 1888. He married to Permelia Fulk and was a soldier in the Civil War. His grandfather George Nace lived with them in 1870.
b. John Wesley, born c. 1843. One source says c. 1846.
c. William, born 1844 and died 1921. His wife was named Emily and he was a solider in the Civil War.
d. Thomas J., born c. 1850.
e. Catherine, born c. 1852.
f. Franklin P., born c. 1854.
g. Charles F., born c. 1857.
h. Nancy E., born c. 1860.
i. name unknown.
4) Catherine, our ancestor. See entry on Winfield Scott Beekman.
5) Jacob, born 1826, married to Mary Polley Johnson on 15 February 1852 and had three children. Jacob was a farmer and in 1860 his real estate and personal estate were valued together at $1,659. Ten years later it was one dollar more, $1,660! In 1880, they lived in Mifflin Twp., Pike Co., Ohio. Mary was about a year older than Jacob.
a. Demaris, born c. 1853, a daughter.
b. Robert C., born c. 1856.
c. Thomas, born c. 1858.
6) Margaret, born 29 November 1828, married to William Gerry Beekman, son of Aaron Beekman, on 16 January 1848. He was a minister, farmer and squire and lived from 28 June 1828 to 22 February 1901. She died 11 November 1891 and is buried by her husband at White Oak Cemetery, Beavers Ridge, Pike Co., Ohio.
a. George E., born c. 1849. He was a school teacher and did bookkeeping. He lived with his brother Aaron in 1910.
b. Winslow Park, born c. 1851. He married Virginia Knox and they had three children, one a son named William G. Beekman. He is buried in Cynthiana, Ohio.
c. Aaron Asbury, born 3 February 1852. He married Cora A. Evans on 29 August 1880 in Pike Co., Ohio. Cora was the daughter of Methodist minister Rev. Charles Evans and his wife Irene (Irene married secondly Winfield Scott Beekman). After Cora died (on 4 April 1915), Aaron remarried to Martha
Rhoads of Sinking Spring, Ohio. He was not remembered as being a very kind man! He died 9 March 1937.
d. Elizabeth Jane, born c. 1855 and married in 1872 to Jesse W. Shanks, who was born 1852, Sunfish Twp., Pike Co., Ohio.
e. James B., born c. 1857. He married to a Vanness.
f. Nathaniel G., born c. 1860. He married to a Slagle and moved to Danville, Illinois.
g. Mary C., born c. 1863. She married Benjamin F. Beekman c. 1885 and had two children by 1910.
h. Verna A., born c. 1866 and died 1954. She married to William Rayburn (1862-1940).
i. Virginia P., born c. 1868 and married Jacob Genther.
j. Margaret Francis, born c. 1871 and died 14 December 1871 in infancy.
7) Mary A., born c. 1836 and who lived at home in 1850.
8-) Names unknown. In the census of 1880, household of John Nace, eldest son of George Nace, a niece of John is given as Mary M. Jones (age 28) and a nephew is listed as William Haines (age 4).
Submitted by Michael & Donna Brown
Sept 2007
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