Amos Franklin Pace by Emma Margaret Tree Pace

History of Amos Franklin Pace

5 March 1875 - 11 February 1955

As written by his wife, Emma Margaret Tree Pace in 1958

Amos Franklin Pace, Son of George Milton and Sarah Alvira Stanley Pace, was born 5 March, 1875 at Atkinson, Swnmit County, Utah. He was the sixth son of a family of fourteen; six girls and eight boys.

The family lived on the ranch at the head of Silver Creek Canyon in Summit County. They milked cows, made butter and cheese, which products they took by horse team and buggy into Salt Lake City and sold them, or traded for other commodities.

Frank, as he was most commonly known, went to school in Snyderville and later in Coalville. His father was Bishop of what was called the Parley's Park Ward. He was still Bishop at the time of his death, and had served in that capacity for 23 years.

Frank met his future wife, Emma Margaret Tree, at Snyderville. They kept company and courted for seven years before their marriage in the Salt Lake Temple on 21 June 1899. The first winter following their marriage, Frank was called on a six-week mission for the M. 1. A. He labored in Coalville and the other wards in that end of the Summit Stake.

The fIrst child, a son, Alvin, was born at the ranch. When he was one year old the family moved to Hoytsville to run the Pace Ranch, which was owned by the Pace brothers. The family lived in a little log house in the mouth of Cottonwood canyon, on the spot where the cistern now stands. The second child, a son, George, was born here. When he was still very small the family purchased and moved into the Dick Redden home-which is still the family home.

The next child was a daughter, Elsie, then two years later a third son, Eugene was born. When Eugene was a year and half-old Frank was called on a Mission to the Southern States, where he labored for two years, filling an honorable mission for the church. At the time he was called on the mission he was in the Hoytsville Ward Sunday School Superintendency. Upon his return home he was chosen as First Counselor to Bishop Irwin Crittenden of the Hoysville Ward, which position he held, with the same bishop, for twenty-seven years.

When the Pace brothers withdrew from the partnership Frank and his older boys brought the Hoytsville farm. Three different times he sold all his cows except one to make payments on the farm. Later on more land was purchased from Jack and Carl Redden and the Range Company, in order to provide work and make a living for their large family of eleven children, three girls and eight boys. In addition to those previously named, the children in order of their ages were: Kenneth, Raymond, Thelma, Reed, LaBelle, and Vernal.

In addition to filling a mission himself, Frank sent and kept three sons in the mission field. He held many Church and civic positions, including Member of School Board, Member and Director of the Wanship and Rockport Range Company.

On his Seventy - eighth birthday Frank was honored at a dinner at the Temple Square Hotel by his wife, Emma and their eleven children and their husbands and wives. Following the dinner the entire company, 24 in all, went through the Temple on an Endowment session. This was a proud day for Frank.

        Amos Franklin Pace died 11 February 1955; buried 14 February in the Hoytsville Cemetery. Surviving were his wife, 8 sons, 3 daughters, 42 grandchildren, 5 great grandchildren, 2 brothers, and 3 sisters.