History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin, F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. pp. 189-90. [Cadiz Precinct] W. D. GRACE was born January 24, 1813, in Caldwell, now Trigg County, Ky.; he is the second child of a family of four born to George and Nancy (Williams) Grace; they were born in North Carolina, and married in Montgomery County, Tenn.; the father was engaged in agricultural. On coming to Trigg County they settled on a farm of about 300 acres, three miles west of Canton; he died in 1850, aged sixty-five. Our subject at the age of nineteen bought a farm on Crooked Creek; lived there four years, then removed to Canton, where he lived about twenty-five years. He first kept hotel and later engaged in merchandising and commission, also engaged in pork-packing four seasons. In 1861 he removed to Cadiz; during his stay there he had raised three crops. January 1, 1867, he removed to their present farm which consisted at that time of about 1,300 acres; about 800 acres of this land have since been disposed of. Mr. Grace has been three times married; his first marriage, was July 15, 1832, to Mary Organ. She was born in Wilson County, Tenn.; died August 30, 1834. They had two children: Frances, wife of D. P. Austin, was born April 28, 1833; she died December 28, 1881; John R. was born May 27, 1834; he took up the study of law and graduated at the Louisville Law College, at the age of twenty-one; he then engaged in the practice of his profession, and soon after became a partner in the law firm of Mayes & Grace; he has held the office of County Judge, and now serving his third term as Judge of the Second Judicial District. Mr. Grace was next married, June 11, 1839, to Elizabeth Gough; she was born February 20, 1820, in Stewart County, Tenn. She died July 6, 1849. They had four children--all deceased. His third marriage was on September 8, 1850, to Sarah Munday; she was born in Virginia. This union was blessed with two children, one living--Alex H., who is now the owner of this farm. He was married, February 15, 1882, to Miss Eliza Wharton. She was born in Trigg County. Grace Williams Organ Gough Munday Wharton = Caldwell-KY Jefferson-KY Stewart-TN Montgomery-TN Wilson-TN NC VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/trigg/grace.wd.txt