The Guilford Genealogist (Vol. 29, #4, Fall 2002, Issue #99) cites the Greensborough Patriot of 8 January 1848: List of Letters remaining in the post office at Greensboro NC, Jan.1, 1848. ABNER PACE (had left Guilford Co.about 1844 to go to Rowan Co. NC, where his son John Fletcher Pace was born in 1844. Perhaps he had returned to Guilford Co. temporarily but by the 1850 census he was residing in Salisbury, Rowan Co., NC, with his wife (Julia Ann REID of Guilford Co., NC) and son. By 1850 Abner's brothers Young and Needham Pace had also left Guilford Co., Young Pace and his mother Zilpha Pace (with retarded son David) going to Mecklenburg Co.,NC, and Needham Pace going to Iredell Co., NC. EDMUND PACE or RICHARD SMITH I don't know what this double entry means on Edmund Pace and Richard Smith. Could they have been in business together? What this would seem to establish is that both of these Pace men had been in the Greensboro NC area recently in late 1847 or early 1848 and had left. Perhaps they had visited and mail was sent to them there, or perhaps they had been living there and then left. Letters seem to have been held in the post office for a period of time and then deposited in the dead letter box. Betty Pace