1894
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- October 10 - The long-time bachelor Thomas S. Martin married Lucy Chambliss Day (1875-1915) of Smithfield, daughter of a local politician and twenty years Martin’s junior. The couple would have two children, Thomas Staples, Jr., and a daughter, Lucy. Martin represented Virginia in the United States Senate for nearly twenty-five years.
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- December 15: On this Monday, B. R. Pace, ex-Mayor of Charlottesville and president of the People’s National Bank, died suddenly in Charlottesville. Death is supposed to have been due to the bursting of a blood vessel. According to the Westminster, Md. Democratic Advocate newspaper, Mr. Pace was reported to have been 60 years of age.[1]
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- ↑ https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038292/1894-12-22/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1777&index=0&rows=20&words=B+Charlottesville+Pace+R&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=B.+R.+Pace+Charlottesville&y=14&x=14&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 The Democratic Advocate., December 22, 1894