Note from Sandy (Whalen) Bauer: this is confusing the way it is all run together. I have spent time reviewing census records and cemetery records to try and make a clean list of children of James Downing Pace and Mary Ann Casey, which you may view here.

JAMES DOWNING PACE In the mid-1800's, James Downing PACE and his wife, Mary Ann CASEY, moved to Jefferson County. They were devoutly religious people. He was a lover of the land, and his family grew up to be the same way---all four sons farming. One with a natural knowledge of how to attend to sick animals, people would call him from far and near when an animal was sick or injured. In fact, the starting of his last illness happened when he was out on one of these trips. He had a stroke while riding his horse. James Downing Pace died March 6, 1906. His wife, Mary Ann, died January 6.1920. They had 13 children. Charles died in infancy. Minnie died in her teens. Ella died young, but was married to a "KNOLES". The following are ten who lived a normal lifetime: James D. married Bell MCMEEN and they had one son, John Edward, who was a rural mail carrier. William married Annie BRUCE. They had two daughters: Mary, who married James EATER, and whose children are: Olen, Marlin, Arthur, Keith and Mildred; Olen's children are Delores and Jim; Marlin's children are Janice and Becky; Keith has a son Gary; and Arthur a daughter Patricia; Myrtle married a Mr. KALBERKAMP, and they had two sons. Edward E. married Idumea BRUCE. They were the parents of three children: Roy, Nell (married Henry KEEF), and Pearl, who married Red GLOVER and had two children, Ruth and James. Homer George married Nettie MOSS, and they had seven children: Margaret, married Herman S. WESTCOTT and had three daughters: Betty married George W. (Buck) HARLOW, daughter, Elizabeth Ann, James Douglas died at birth, Thomas Aaron died at birth, and Benjamin Hardy; Marion (1924-1951) married Dennis V. KUSTER, daughters Janet Irene and Dianna Marie, Janet deceased (1951), Diana married James WILKERSON, one daughter, Janet Elizabeth; Bernice married Melvin O. MERCER, two sons, James Martin (1951-1966), Stanley Alan, and a daughter, Lynne Margaret; Margaret later married William T. BADGETT; Carl Downing married Lela ALLEN and had two daughters, Thelma PECEK and Marie Alice BROPHY, Carl later married Vena DAVIS and their twin daughters Faye and Mae died at birth, their adopted daughter, Carolyn, married Clyde WILSON and has six children; Oral Guy (Shorty) married Kyra YEARWOOD, one son, Carl Andrew, who married Norma SURSA and they have two daughters, Nikki, married Rick HAWKINS, one son Matthew Pace and Carol, married Roland SLEDGE; Walter Neal (Doc), married Mareta CLARK, one son, Charles Homer, stillborn; Anna Marie married Robert Sherwood PIERCY; Helen Elmora, married Albert ROBINSON, two sons, Rodney and Scott, daughter, Linda; Nellis, married William PEMBERTON, two daughters, Donna and Janet, Donna married Danny FEITSAM, one son Jeffrey FEITSAM; the fifth child of James Downing PACE to live to adulthood was Anna who married Guy BENJAMIN, they had no children; Dora married Clyde STONEMETZ, one daughter, Blanche, who married George GARRISON and they had three children, Robert married Norma ALLEN. Bernice married Martin ZEDALIS and they have three children, Steve who has one son, Jan, and Rynda, Myrna married Presley COMMINGS and they have three sons, Ronald who has two children, Gary who has two children, Randy has a daughter Marina Rae and one daughter Myrna Sue who has two children by Bobby FLOTA and two by Gene MARTIN; Drucy married Cyrus GARRISON and they had five children, Alma, Wiley, Alice. Ileen, and Bill; Mary married James PIPER and they had three children, Chauncey, married Beulah MCLAUGHLIN and had two children, Edwin and Jean, Jean married a Mr. PASSMORE. and Arthur married Marie STOLLAR; Pearl married a GUESWINE, second marriage to a Mr. GREEN, and a third marriage to A. L. STIVERS, no children: Alice married a Mr. BREEZE and then a Mr. BYERS, no children. Homer George, youngest son of James Downing and Mary Ann PACE, was the writer's beloved father. I will always remember him as being ready to go in sickness or trouble to help anyone. His beautiful faith in prayer and what God can do is one of my fondest memories of him. He worked tirelessly for many years for his beloved Pleasant Grove Church. Homer PACE inherited from his father the love of the land, and always enjoyed his work. He, too, was blessed with a good wife and helpmate for which he was always careful to let us all know that she was our most precious possession, our mother. Homer George PACE (1878-1955), Nettie Emma MOSS PACE (1886-1959). I loved all of my Aunts, but dear Aunt Anna, never having children of her own and living close by Homer and family, made it an easy thing for her to soon become our second Mother and a good one she was. I grew up in a home with strong walls of faith in God all around me. I did not realize it then, but I sure do now.
---Margarett Badgett

SOURCE: FACTS AND FOLKS, JEFFERSON CO, IL - 1978
SUBMITTED BY: Misty Flannigan
Dec 15, 1997