David Benjamin NACE / Juliet Danner WAMPLER

	David B. Nace, taken from a photo card printed in Jacksonville, Illinois. Although the card contains a Luxury Tax stamp (meaning it was printed from 1864-1866), the location suggests that the photo was actually taken before 1860.
	David B. Nace and wife Juliet with two grandchildren: David Nace and Helen Nace. This location is believed to be the Bruce Nace home in Kansas City, Missouri. Assuming that Helen is four or five years old, this photo would have been taken in 1897 or 1898. Click here for a larger version.
	David and Juliet pose with grandchild Helen, presumably around the same time as the prior photo.
	David Nace from a 1933 newspaper article reporting that he was awarded the Town Cane of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in honor of being the oldest resident. Click here for the full picture and article.
	Entrance to Cedar Grove Cemetery in Chambersburg, PA where David B., his wife, and his sister Nell are buried.
	One side of the Nace plot, where David B. and his wife are buried.
	Close-up of David B.'s grave marker. The small star indicates that he served in the Grand Army of the Republic (Union Army) during the Civil War.

	Juliet D. Wampler, taken from a photo card printed in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The card contains a Luxury Tax stamp, meaning it was printed during 1864-1866.
	Juliet Wampler in a mid-1860s portrait.
	Detail from above photo.
	Juliet's grave marker in Cedar Grove Cemetery.

[NI102] "David Nace was born on his father's farm near Halifax, PA. As a young man he learned the carpenter trade, then was in Jacksonville, Ill. for a short time, afterward coming to Chambersburg, PA about 1859. Here he clerked in the store of Elias Hoke. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, he came to McConnellsburg, PA, where he and Mr. Jacob Hoke opened a general store. His Army service was with Co. A, 126th PA Volunteers. Mr. Elias Hoke -or rather the firm signing 'J. Hoke and Co.' gave David Nace the following letter of recommendation:
The bearer, Mr. D. B. Nace, has been in our employ five years as a salesman. and we unhesitatingly testify to his honesty, integrity, punctuality, and excellent business qualitites. We have never had in our employ a young man of such excellent business qualities as Mr. Nace." Later, he went into business for himself, building the house the First National Bank now owns-and where he had his store. He was very sucessful, later organizing the first bank in Fulton County-The Fulton County Bank. In 1894 he and his family removed to Chambersburg. Here he was in the mercantile business for a year or two, then helped organize and was treasurer of the Chambersburg Trust Co. for several [years]. He was a member of the board that organized and built the Chambersburg Hospital and was business manager of the hospital for several years. He was a devoted member of the Methodist Church, deeply religious, always a leader-and Superintendent of the Sunday-Schools both in McConnellsburg and in Chambersburg. He was very quiet, an austere reserved man of absolute integrity, respected by all who knew him. He is buried beside his wife in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg, PA. He was a slight man but of remarkable physical stamina, never ill, living to be more than ninety-five years of age and keeping all his faculties to the last."

[185] 264 S. Main St.

[186] 546 Montgomery Avenue

[NI103] Mam-Mam's notebook states:
"Juliet Danner Nace was born in Chambersburg, Pa., and spent her girlhood there. She must have been a gay, attractive young woman-there are in the possession of her daughter poems written to her by young soldiers who were quartered just opposite her home. She was a member of Zion reformed Church in Chambersburg and a teacher in the first Infant Sunday School. Here she was married. Church records show that there were Wamplers on the church rolls at Zion Reformed for ninety-two years--members, trustees, and deacons-Aunt Orpha being the last of the name, at least, in Chambersburg. Juliet Nace came with her husband to McConnellsburg after their marriage. Her se was a devoted member of the Methodist Church, teaching in the S.S. and making herself greatly beloved. Years later one of her pupils said of her-"All I have ever made of myself I owe to Mrs. Julia Nace." Her family called her the most unselfish person that ever lived; and a daughter says of her, "She was the loveliest thing in my life." In the new Methodist Church of later years, her family has placed a window--the large window in the north end- in loving remembrance of this mother. Her later years were lived in Chambersburg where she died and is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery. "Her children shall arise and call her blessed."

Johnston's book indicates that during the burning of Chambersburg by the Confederate Army, she and her sisters, Susan and May, helped to form a fire brigade and fought the fire, in defiance of the rebel resistance.

[BI103] Cindy Nace Barnes's Charts indicate Juliet Danner Wampler was born in 1839

[NI105] Johnston's book, p239, indicates:
"Nell graduated in music at Wilson College in 1900. She lives unmarried at home with her father in Chambersburg, Pa."

[182] [S8] Charts by Cynthia Withington Nace Barnes

[183] [S10] Mamam's Notebook

• PAGE: p. 10
  

[181] [S97] Tomb Marker of David Benjamin Nace

[184] [S69] 1880 United States Census

• PAGE: FHL Film 1255133; National Archives Film T9-1133; Page 91B
  

[189] [S9] Johnston's Book

• PAGE: p. 237
  

[190] [S10] Mamam's Notebook

• PAGE: p. 11
  

[187] [S89] Birth Certificate of Merrill W. Nace

[188] [S98] Tomb Marker of Juliet Danner Wampler

[191] [S69] 1880 United States Census

• PAGE: FHL Film 1255133; National Archives Film T9-1133; Page 91B
  

[196] [S8] Charts by Cynthia Withington Nace Barnes

[197] [S9] Johnston's Book

[195] [S96] Tomb Marker of Nellie Nace

[198] [S69] 1880 United States Census

• PAGE: FHL Film 1255133; National Archives Film T9-1133; Page 91B
  

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