I thought some where I had info that Pace's lived in Stinking Crk, but do you think I can find it?... It may have been that Jesse Pace who I don't believe is ours or that Robert Pace of Wake Co NC ... John Pace may have info as I know I sent him a lot at one time... mine maybe in my old Computer which I haven't extracted yet... But this is some good reading abt the Hillbilly's who were Mountaineers and how they lived in Stinking Crk Ky and its one mans interview ....and I believe its more abt the modern day Hillbilly....I did a fast read thru... I found it interesting as I have no knowledge of how My Ancestors lived and felt, it did give me a peek into possibly how some of my People may have lived... mine were farmer, but I do know one of the Pace's owned part of one of thoses Mines in Harlan Co Ky ...I am now going to Order it... as am told Pace's in it... Darlene Pace some EXCERPT Due to mining the coal in those Ky Mt. He is a colorful writer... The hillbilly is a mountaineer without mountains, and the gullies of erosion in his spirit and soul are as evident as are the gaping wounds in the hills around him. The visible parallel of simultaneous destruction of hill and human being is shattering.. A mountaineer when asked how his ancestors came to this place answered, "They walked."True, they walked. But as they walked they fought the Choctaw, the Shawnee, the wild animals, and each other. In a country where only the most savage could survive, the mountaineer survived. His historic enemies are dead and gone. The mountaineer was a savage man because his heritage was savagery. Of English, Scottish, and Irish descents, he came, not as a clean cut, wholesome, educated explorer, but as a man scarred by years of abuse. By 1800 there were hundreds of such settlers across the Kentucky mountains. Each family was an entity to itself; it provided its own vegetables and meat, treated its own wounds and ills, killed its own enemies, made its own corn whiskey. http://www.tcnet.net/ky/knox/Doc1.html