Father: LINDSEY BAKER GRICE (1814-1870) d. Lowndes Co., AL
Mother: ELIZABETH TODD GRICE (1815-1899) d. Williamson Co., TX
Spouse: ELIZABETH FRAZIER (1853-aft 1910)

CHILDREN (five daughters; 7 total children):
* Gertrude d. bef 1900 (Milam Co., TX?)
* Lena d. bef 1900 (Milam Co., TX?)
* Hattie b. 1882 TX; m. John Brown Pierce (son -- Floyd Pierce, b. 1904)
* Sarah b. 1884 ](Milam Co., TX?)
* Edna P. b. 1887 (Milam Co., TX?} m. Hugh W. Jackson; 1910 Wilbarger Co, TX, Census; (moved to NM)

CHRONOLOGY
c1850-- b. ck Lowndes Co., AL
1861-65 war record? Willis C. was 15 at the beginning of the war; therefore did not likely see action long before the end of the war;
ca 1871-- migrated with cousin James C. Blaylock (son/Martha Todd Blaylock) to central TX and was documented in Lee County in 1871 by a the "1871 Lexington Letter" written by J. C. Blaylock to B. E. Spradley in Lowndes Co., AL. (See content below); Established a homestead at the Salty Commuity of southwest Milam Co.
1872-- met the Todd-Spradley Immigration Party of 1872 when they arrived in Texas and subsequently housed his mother (Eliz. Todd Grice) and orphaned neices (Thomas girls) in Williamson County; possibly gave housing to many of the migrants in the early months after their arrival in TX
1874 -- married Elizabeth Frazier (Fraisure?) in Milam/Williamson Co. TX
1872-1880 -- lived in/near the community of Salty in Milam Co.
1882 -- dau Hattie born TX
1884 -- dau Sarah born TX
1887 -- dau Edna born TX
1900 -- (age 54) doc on census in Williamson Co., TX with wife and three teen daughters
1900-1910 -- moved to northwest TX, east of Vernon, to a community called Harrold (Wilbarger Co.), near the Red River.
1910 -- doc 18 Apr on federal census in Harrold, Wilbarger Co., TX as 63wm with wife and six-year-old grandson Floyd Pierce; doc as "unemployed." Perhaps moved to live near daughter Edna Jackson
1910 -- died 17 Nov in Wilbarger Co., TX; buried at Eastview Cemetery, Vernon; c1910 -- (age 64)
1930 -- see below for census data on daughter Edna P. Jackson
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Civil War Service Records
Name: W. C. Grice
Company:B Unit: 24 Battalion Alabama Cavalry.
Rank - Induction: Private
Rank - Discharge: Private
Allegiance: Confederate
Source -- National Archives. Civil War Compiled Military Service Records [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-.
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1870 Fed CENSUS, Lowndes Co., AL;
* GRIER, LINYA B.  67 Lindsay Baker Grice
* ELIZABETH  55 Elizabeth Todd Grice
* WILLIS      21 Willis Carpenter Grice
* THOMAS, ELIZABETH  15 Eliza Jane Thomas (granddau)
* THOMAS, MARINA    13 Marina Floyd Thomas (granddau)
* THOMAS, AMANDA   11 Amanda Thomas (granddau)
* THOMAS, MARINA     11 Miranda Thomas (granddau)
Enumerated AUG 24, 1870 -- Here is the Grice household weeks before Lindsay's death and already housing the four Thomas granddaughters. Lindsey died 17 Sep 1870; shortly, Willis would join an aunt and cousins in a migration to central TX and would later encourage his mother and four nieces to follow in his footsteps, which they did in 1872.
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1910 Fed Census, Wilbarger Co., TX
* Hugh W. Jackson 27wm farmer TX TX TX
* Edna 27wf wife TX AL AL
* Jas. A. son
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1930 Federal Census, Hockley Co., TX (west of Lubbock)
* Hugh W. Jackson 47wm (b. 1883) farmer; m 24 (1906)
* Edna P (Grice) 44 wf (b. 1886) KH
* Ruth E. 19wf (b. 1911) dau
* Gertrude 17wf (b. 1913) dau
* Tom W. 15wm (b. 1915) son
* Woodrow F. 12wm (b. 1918) son
* Edna P. 8wf (b. 1922) dau