Would be interesting, though, to know whether he was Zilpha's or not. Not my line, but interesting. On the 1880 census there is a girl named Bettie Garner b. 1862 living with Zilpha and her husband in Selma. She is described as daughter but if the record is correct (big IF) she was born eight years before their marriage and is nine years older than the eldest of the other children. It doesn't seem likely Bettie could be Henry Garner's daughter from a previous marriage as he would have been only 16 when she was born. (Again, that's IF the census records are correct). So whose daughter is she? She is the right age to be the same child as the Frances E. Pace living in the household of John Pace on the 1870 census (Frances Elizabeth, hence Bettie, perhaps). Meanwhile McDaniel Pace, four years older than Bettie and grown and married, is living with his wife and son Leonard in Beulah. Perhaps McDanel and Bettie were brother and sister, both born to Zilpha long before her marriage to Mr Garner. And Bettie took the surname of her stepfather and became a Garner, whereas the boy, McDaniel, was given land by his grandfather and kept the name of Pace. This is just speculation, but it seems to me that if there were TWO unaccounted-for children, that makes it more likely that Zilpha was the mother. DNA might possibly give a satisfying answer, yea or nay. And if so, then the descendants of McDaniel Pace would know which male line he came from. Ellen