Southampton-King and Queen County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pace, Maria L., 1933 

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MARIE LOUISE CAUTHORNE SMITH PACE

   Mrs. Maria Louise Pace, wife of W.T. Pace of this town, died at her home in 
West First Avenue Sunday morning after an illness of a few months.  Mrs. Pace, 
who was in her 54th year, was the daughter of the late A.B. Cauthorne and Mrs. 
Virginia Cauthorne of King and Queen County, Virginia and, before her marriage 
was Mrs. Marie Louise Smith of Baltimore.  Besides her husband, she leaves one 
sister, Mrs. J.D. Haggerty of Sussex, N.J.; three nieces, Mrs. Fred Tucker, 
Mrs. Williard Pierce, and Mrs. Emmett Ragland, all of Richmond.

    During her residence of nearly 11 years in Franklin, Mrs. Pace had been 
active and useful in church, community and cultural affairs; was a woman of 
unusual abilities and exceptional personality, and had made many valuable 
contributions to the life of the town and community.  She was a former 
President of the Franklin Music Study Club, and for several years was State 
Treasurer of the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs, recently resigning on 
account of ill health. She was a consistent communicant of High Street M.E. 
Church and young people’s leader in that organization.  She was also leader of 
the woman’s group of Zone One of the Portsmouth-Newport News M.E. Conference.

   Funeral services were held from the Pace residence Monday afternoon at 4 
o’clock, conducted by the Rev. Roscoe Jones of the Methodist Church, assisted 
by Dr. Elwood W. Jones, Rev. R.D. Stephenson and Rev. J. Sutherland-Watt.  The 
body was taken by motor to Baltimore Tuesday morning for interment in Loudon 
Park Cemetery, accompanied by Mr. Pace, W.T. Pace, Jr., Frank S. Pace of 
Norfolk, Mr. and Mrs. J. Fenton Matthews, Rev. and Mrs. Roscoe Jones, Phoebus 
Jones, Dr. and Mrs. J.D. Haggerty of Sussex, Mr. and Mrs. I.L. Sutherland of 
Richmond, Miss Sue LaFrage of Norfolk, Cecil Vaughan, 3rd, Geo. H. Parker, 
Harry Steinhardt, W.J.M. Holland, Jr. and Stanley Holland.

   Services were conducted at the grave in Baltimore Tuesday afternoon by Rev. 
Roscoe Jones, assisted by Dr. John Paul Tyler, presiding elder of the 
Baltimore District Conference, M.E. Church, South.  The pallbearers were: W.T. 
Pace, Jr., Frank S. Pace, I.L. Sutherland, Dr. J.D. Haggerty, S.R. Wallis-
Parrish, Marion L. Elliott, Arthur Pierce and John L. Porter of Baltimore.


Maria Louise (CAUTHORNE SMITH; Mrs. W.T.*) PACE, formerly of Baltimore, MD, 
King and Queen Co. native?, d. 30 Apr 1933, at home, Franklin, age 54, 
interred in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, MD, 2 May 1933, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 5, 1933 

*husband Willie Thomas PACE, Sr. (1866-1954) is buried with the first of his 
three wives in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section I, Plot 20), Franklin. 
(Southampton County {SCHS} Historical Society, Cemetery Project) 

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