Samantha Elizabeth Stephens

I remember Ma Pace. My dad and my grandmother loved her as their blood mother/grandmother and as a young child I knew no difference and loved her kind ways.
My grandmother (Bessie Nora Pace) told me that although she loved her own mother Ida Nora Burfield) that she didn't remember her well, but that Samantha was a true mother to my grandmother in every way.

When Ma Pace married my great grandfather (Pa Pace of course) she had 5 young children of her own...yet married a man with 10 of his own and together they had 5 more children....and all were raised as each other's own. Remarkable