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JOHN KIRK PACE , b. 1825 McMinn Co., Tn., m/6 July 1848 in Greene Co., Mo. to JANE WALLIS. JOHN K. was son of ROBERT PACE and ANNIS BROWN, and ANNIS BROWN was daughter of ALEXANDER BROWN (whom many claim was Cherokee, and who had AT LEAST 272 descendants file claims on the Guion Miller Cherokee Roll, but were not successful). I have never checked the rejects on the Dawes Roll to determine if they filed there. At any rate, Alexander Brown came to Polk Co., Mo. in the early to mid-1830's.

Other children of ROBERT PACE and ANNIS BROWN WERE: NANCY A., who m/ WILLIAM H. A. PHILLIPS, and who is buried in Jasper Co., Mo. She was in Allen Co., Ks. with her mother in 1860; DANIEL M., b. 1832, d. 1853; VIOLETTE E(sabella)A., b. 1835, who married NELSON R. RICKMAN. I have an error in my records here, but probably can get it straight from an ALEXANDER BROWN descendant who lives here in town, as I show that VIOLETTE was b. 1835, m/1865, but d. 1853. That's pretty much a biological impossibility; WILLIAM A.(lexander), who apparently married first in 1848 to JANE BAUCUM and m/2 in 1857 to MARGARET J. NOBLET, was in Allen Co., Ks. in the 1860 census and 1865 in the Kansas State Census. Here again, I have an obvious error, as my old chart shows he died in 1863; and ANNIS V., b. 1836, d. 1863.

Alexander Brown's son ISOM (ALEXANDER?) BROWN and some of the other connecting families went to Allen Co., Ks. in 1855, where ISOM BROWN died. His wife and some of the children and other families stayed there for a while, but by 1870 she is back in Missouri. Can't recall off the top of my head if she was in Polk or Greene in 1870--but they lived near Brighton, which is very near the Polk/Greene County line. WILLIAM A. PACE had children: PALESTINE, b. ca. 1850; THOMAS R., b. ca. 1851; NEPUTURA (T.?), b. ca. 1857; AMADINA, b. Feb. 1860 in Kansas, and MARY, b. 1862 in Kansas. MARGARET JANE PACE and children are #52/50 on the 1865 State Census of Allen Co., Kansas (Deer Creek Township).

Another connection of this family is FRANCES A. PACE, daughter of JOHN K. PACE and JANE WALLIS , m/JAMES A. PROCTOR in 1868 in Greene Co., Mo. Other children of JOHN K. PACE and JANE WALLIS are: ARTILA HAZLETINE PACE, b. 1854, d. 1889; WILLIAM LILBURN PACE, b. 1856, m/MARINA ALSUP; MARY L. V. PACE, b. 1859, m/____TILLER (I can probably locate this marriage if you need it); ARNETY JANE PACE, b. 1863, d. 1879; and JOHN ALEXANDER PACE, b. 1866, who m/MOLLY E. TILLER. The TILLERS were also from Polk County.

I do a great deal of research in SW Missouri, particularly Polk, Greene, Dallas, and Webster counties. My husband's TODD family was from St. Clair County. I have a very large library, covering mostly Missouri (particularly the southwest and along the northern tier across Arkansas), northern Arkansas, Tennessee (all over, but heavy on Maury, Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall, Roane, Hawkins, Monroe, McMinn, that I can think of), and Virginia (mostly southside, but do have some other stuff, including Richmond County), but have a lot of other material too. I had a lot of material at the home of a very elderly friend here--plus we had material we had purchased jointly, and she had always said when she was not able to use it, her own material would come to me. I did not even have an inventory of what was there, and had approached her a couple of time during the past year about getting it and inventorying it, and she just had a fit. But then in early April her family called and said they needed the room where the genealogy books were for a bedroom for her, and they (but not her) were ready for me to come and get it. Her part of the collection was heavy on east Kentucky. We took a van and a 1/2 ton pickup over there and loaded up 54 boxes of books. I have a very small house; and my friend in Pryor, who also has a lot of my material, did not have room to dump that much uninventoried material, so we took it to my dad's empty house in the same town until she could get it inventoried.

It's pathetic to have so much material and not be able to get to it or not know where it is. About 25 years ago I published a genealogical periodical covering Ark-Kan-Mo-and Ok., so I received a lot of stuff on exchange then. Since late 1987 I had not done much with any of it, as I've had a lot of family illness during the past 10 years that have taken up a lot of my time.

I am sorry this is so long--I'm pretty wordy, but what I'm getting at, is I am happy to look up material if anyone wants.

Oh, yes, I wanted to mention to you (and you can pass along to the Pace Society), the Greene Co. (Mo.) archives have published either 33 or 34 volumes of Greene County, Mo., material. Which, at the time I obtained my several years ago (when they had only done 16 volumes or so) were FREE. They continued to be FREE for quite a while, then they started charging individuals postage to mail them, but if you picked them up in person there was no charge. Now they charge individuals $2.00 per volume (but some are big volumes), plus shipping if they have to mail. I sent my sister who lives in Springfield over there a couple of weeks ago to get the new volumes I do not have (29 thru 33 or 34), and she said they are still free to societies. I am presuming this would include family societies or associations, so in case the Pace society maintains a library and wants these volumes they may either get them free, they might have to pay postage only, or they might have to pay $2.00 each plus postage, but they are certainly worth having.

I have over 90 inches of shelf space occupying books on Greene County alone.