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- !DEED:14 Jan 1847 Marion Co., SC Deed Book V, p. 12
John Blackmon Sr of Marion Dist., SC by note of hand and promissory note, became indebted to John Mace Jr in sum of $100 to be paid 1 January next and dated 13 Jan 1847 given for value received ... tract of land whereon I now live, purchased by me of Levi Jones and being all the land which I own where I live containing 50 acres bounded by John Mace and Estate of J. G. Crawford. If not paid, deed to remain in full force ...
S: John Blackman Sr.
Wit: A. Q. McDuffie, A. J. Spears
* From "Abstracts of Marion County [SC] Deed Books U and V 1846-1853", Lucille Utley, Kathy Loyd, John M. Gregg. Three Rivers Historical Society, 2003.;
!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC pg 76 # 1130/1135
John MACE, 31, Marion
Burzilla, 18
Lucinda, 2;
!CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist, SC # 1263
John MACE, 40
Martha, 73
M. L. (f) 11
M. E. (f) 9;
!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co, SC Kirby # 3
John MACE, 56
M.L. (f), 21;
!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 2033 Henry Berry, Marion Co., SC 1876
Will 25 Feb 1876
Sons Gewood, Elihu and James Berry
dau Mary Fore wife of Stephen Fore
Gr-da Leucinda Edwards wife of Willie Edwards and Margaret E. Sellers wife of John C. Sellers, children of my dau Virzilla Mace decd, wife of John Mace.
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!CENSUS:1880 Marion Co, SC Kirby # 214
John MACE, 66, widow;
!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 148-157
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Cross Roads Henry Berry's third and youngest daughter, Virzilla by name, married the late John Mace; the fruits of the marriage were two daughters, Lucinda M. and Maggie Ellen their mother died when they were quite young, aged eight and six years respectively ; they were raised without any mother by their father; he never remarried; the girls grew up to womanhood, and the younger, Maggie Ellen, married John C. Sellers, 23d December, 1869; four years afterwards, Lucinda M. married William G. Edwards ; both Lucinda M. and Maggie E. are dead; the latter died 26th April, 1888, the former died in 1896. Maggie left six children surviving her, viz : Lucy, Benjamin B., Annie, Wallace D., Leila and Maggie Ellen (called Pearl), the latter only three days old at her mother's death; she was taken by her aunt, Rachel Norton, who has kept her till the present time ; she is now thirteen years old. Lucinda M., wife of William G. Edwards, left at her death five children, three daughters and two sons ; the daughters are : Mary, now the wife of J. Dudley Haselden; she has two children, both sons; also, Maggie and Carrie Edwards. The two sons are Henry A. Edwards and Samuel Edwards. Henry, the elder son, after taking a two years course in Wofford College, went to Vanderbilt University, Tenn., arid took a three or four years course in the medical department of that well equipped institution, and is now a young "M. D." . ;
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