History of George Milton Pace by Emma Margaret Tree Pace

History of George Milton Pace

9 January 1837 - 6 March 1897

by Emma Margaret Tree Pace

George Milton Pace was born 9 January 1837, a son of Elisha Pace and Eliza Baldwin.  He had one brother, Edwin, and a sister, Amanda, born in Licking County, Ohio.  His father died in July 1844.  A year after his death their mother, with the three children, moved to Nebraska and settle at Omaha.

In 1848 they journeyed with the Lorenzo Snow Mormon Company on the treck to Utah, arriving in Salt Lake City that fall.

George Milton met and married Sarah Alvira Stanley, a daughter of Alexander Scoby Stanley and Philinda Upson.  They were married 7 March 1860.  Four children were born in Bountiful, Utah.  They then moved to Parley's Park, Summit County where they were engaged in farming and dairying (sic) with Amos Atkinson, Oren Hatch and John Moss families.

For a number of years they moved to Bountiful for the winter months.  George Milton was made Bishop of the Parley's Park ward, which office he held until his death, some twenty-three years later.

George Milton Pace died 6 March 1897.  He was the father of 14 children, six girls and 8 boys.