Gordon W Pace posted the following: From Gordon W Pace, 5-24-04 One of the major Pace lineages for which the ancestry is undiscovered, is that of William R. Pace and Sarah Hendrix of Giles Co, TN and Benton Co, AR. This is the ancestry of DNA test subject #15541 as well as the ancestry of James Dean Pace of Benton Co. This is briefly what I know about this lineage: William Pace was b. abt. 1770 in SC and died abt. 1825-30, probably in Maury Co, TN. He married Sarah Frazier abt. 1803 in Mississippi Territory, daughter of William Frazier and a Native American. Per Gale Judkins, family lore says that this family was closely associated with the Choctaw tribe in Mississippi Territory and Sarah may have been a full-blood Choctaw. The area of residence prior to the removal of the Choctaw was near what is now Yalobusha Co, MS. The family apparently arrived in TN before 1811. Their children were: Alpha Pace b. 1804, d. 1875 Giles Co, TN, m. John Escue Rachel Pace b. 1809, Thomas Pace b. 1811, d 1848 in Lawrence Co, TN, John Jackson b. 1815, d. aft 1870 Giles Co, TN, m. Mourning Logan 1850 Lawrence Co, TN, Dempsey b. 1818, d. aft 1880 AR, m. Sarah Cooper in Hardin Co, TN. William R. Pace b. 1836? Giles Co, TN, d. aft 1890 Benton Co, AR. Thomas Pace m. Mary Hendrix 7/17/1833 in Lawrence Co, TN, daughter of William Hendrix and Sarah. Their children were: James Dean Pace b. 1835 Giles Co, TN, d. aft 1880 AR Christopher C. b. 1836 TN Sarah E. b. 1840 Sophrona H. b. 1842 Robert Richmond b. 1844 Thomas J. b. 1845 William R. Pace - birth year from census records range from 1828 to 1836. On the 1880 Benton Co, AR census (Brightwater Twp) he shows both parents b. TN. William m. Sarah A. Hendrix (sister of above Mary) on 9/12/1849 in Lawrence Co, TN. Their children were: William J. , John S., Martha Almyra, Thomas E., General E., Mary A., Sarah Rachel, Susan Arphetty, Fanny H., George M., and Joseph H. b. 10/14/1871 Benton Co, AR. The following children were in the household of William R. on the 1880 census: John S., Mary E., Sarah R., Fanny H., George M. and Joseph H. Also in the hh were William Hendricks 35 and James Hendricks 18, relationship not noted but undoubtedly close relatives of Sarah and Mary Hendrix. Does anyone have a clue as to the ancestry of William Pace b. abt. 1770 SC? As the James Dean Pace biography indicates, his family believed him to be a descendant of Richard Pace of Jamestown but the one DNA test [15541] from this line seems to refute this. What is greatly needed is another test subject from this line to see if the results match the first. Gordon W. Pace We now have that second test, and it exactly matches the first. Kit 40018 exactly matches 15541 25/25. So it would appear that this line is NOT of the Richard Pace lineage. Grandfather of 40018 is great grandfather of 15541. These results can be seen on the Results and Donors pages of the DNA site, http://www.pacesociety.org/DNA/ Roy Johnson