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Source: "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, INDIANA" GOODSPEED
BROS. 1884
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, WASHINGTON COUNTY, INDIANA
PAGE 871
BEVERLY T. PACE was born in Barren County, Ky., June 25, 1845. His parents,
Joseph W. and Harriet L. (Whitlow) Pace, were both natives of Kentucky.
Their respective parents were natives of Virginia and North Carolina, and
among the pioneer settlers of the Blue Grass State, and were people of the
highest respectability. Subject's parents always resided upon a farm and to
them were born a family of five sons and three daughters. The mother died
in 1863. The father is yet living and resides in Texas. Beverly T. Pace
was reared upon the farm. October 28, 1861, be enlisted in Company K, Capt.
P. S. Rush, Thirteenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (Union), commanded by
Col. E. H. Hobson, and served three years, participating in the battles of
Perryville, Knoxville, the campaign in and around Atlanta and numerous
lesser engagements. He was mustered out at Louisville, Ky., January 12,
1865. March 30, 1865, be enlisted for one year in Company I, Eighth United
States Veteran Volunteers, commanded by Gen. W. S. Hancock, and served
until March 29, 1866. The month following his last discharge he came to
Salem, Ind., where be embarked in the jewelry business, in which he has
since continued. He married Miss Sarah A. Depp, a native of Glasgow, Ky.,
her birth occurring July 8, 1843. From this marriage three children were
born: Hattie and Mary, living, and Cleofas D., dead. Mr. Pace's marriage
was solemnized March 26, 1867. He is a stanch Republican, a member of the
G. A. R. and I. 0. 0. F., and of the Baptist Church. Subject's father, who
on the breaking out of the war resided in Metcalfe County, Ky., was with one
exception the only man who voted in that county for Abraham Lincoln in 1860,
and during the entire war was a stanch Union man.
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