Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Brace, Lucius F. August 30, 1822 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak naela@earthlink.net February 23, 2008, 8:22 am Author: Hardin & Willard Brace, Lucius F., Winfield, is one of the assessors of the town of Winfield, which office he has held for seventeen years. He was born August 30, 1822, and has been on the farm where he now lives since 1847. He is son of Captain Asahel Brace, whose father was Deacon Able Brace, one of the first settlers of Winfield. Lucius F. Brace married Margaret J., daughter of Israel Young, of Columbia. They have one son, Frank L. Brace, editor and proprietor of the "West Winfield Star," also supervisor of the town of Winfield. Murray Eleazer Brace was born on the farm where he now lives, the old homestead of Eleazer C. Brace, his grandfather; and after him it was owned and occupied by his son, Parnach P., after him by his son, Murray Eleazer Brace, who still owns and occupies the old homestead of about 100 acres. Parnach Brace was born on this farm January 28, 1838, and died here June 2, 1885. He was married to Lizzie Round December 13, 1864, she was a daughter of James K. Round, a native of this town, who was born June 3, 1809, and died April 16, 1849. He married Barbara Clapsaddle, of Columbia, November 12, 1835, a daughter of Dennis Clapsaddle. Mr. and Mrs. Round had two children, Lizzie and Murray; the latter was born September 25, 1836, and enlisted October 13, 1861, sergeant in Company C, Fifty-eighth Illinois Volunteers. He came home on a furlough on account of disability, and died four weeks later, July 29, 1861. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/ny/herkimer/bios/brace314gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb