My Pace connection is through Elizabeth Pace (m. Wiley Etheredge) who was the daughter of William Pace and Drucilla. They all wound up in Clarke County, Alabama, in the 1820’s where William died in 1826. Bruce Howard has done a good job of presenting information on these Paces, but it can get confusing since so many Pace cousins shared the same given names (William, John, Dempsey, etc). In trying to figure out those Clarke County Paces, I went to the 1830 Clarke county census, using both a transcription and downloaded pdf images. On page 228 (page number is the original from pdf images), Demsey Pace is living next door to William Thornton and one house away from Abner Turner. This must be in the West Bend community within a mile of the house where I grew up. The Turners were our neighbors when I was growing up, still living on the land where Abner Turner had settled prior to the Creek Wars of 1813/14, and near the Turner stockade where some of the Paces holed up during parts of the conflict. In my youth, some Thorntons were still living just down the road from our house. On pages 244-245 we find: Richard Pace Followed by three Thornton households followed by Wiley Ethridge (husband of Elizabeth Pace) Next door to Frederic Pace Next door to Burril Pace After 9 houses we find William Pace After 11 houses we find Drewcilla Pace [Spellings are as given in the census with the exception that I have changed “Thorington” to Thornton. I know of no Thoringtons in the area but there were plenty of Thorntons – see some of the witnesses of the William Pace estate documents.] This second group of Paces may be in the Ulcanush Baptist Church area near where John and William Pace originally settled (north of Coffeeville and SW of West Bend), but I can’t be sure. All of the Paces shown in the 1830 census are listed as legatees in the estate of William Pace (m. Drucilla, d. 1826) with the exception of the William who lived between Burrel and Drucilla in 1830. The age range of the Pace adults would seem to fit the children of William and Drucilla. The two daughters (Anna and Susannah) who married McCullar brothers appear to have moved away. (The William Pace estate records are in the members-only Pace database maintained by Val Tice. I have copies that were sent to me by a generous cousin who had visited the Clarke County courthouse.) My hypothesis here is that all of the Paces who remained in Clarke County, AL, in 1830 are descendents of William Pace (m. Drucilla, d. 1826) with the possible exception of the younger William. Bruce Howard lists a William as one of the older sons of Dempsey, so perhaps this William is his son and Drucilla’s grandson? The remainder of the John Pace descendents appear to have moved away, most likely to Mississippi. Can anyone confirm or refute this hypothesis, or otherwise help me out here? Joe Anderson