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Your Rice Family Ezine
Generation by Generation ~ Century by Century
TWICE MONTHLY VOL. 2, NO. 3 February 6, 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE
Rice Family Tales of Courtship and Marriage:
Go'in a Courtin'
Fun For Root Diggers &
Branch Climbers:
The Tree That Ate
Anouncing Our First
Here Comes
the Circus Train:
> Thomas Jefferson Rice and P. T. Barnum
> Who Was Thomas Jefferson Rice?
Southern Family Trees:
Still Hunting for Henry Rice; the Search Includes Pendleton Co., SC Rices
What Our Readers Write:
> Last Issue's List of
Slave Owners
> Wallingford Rices vs.
Massachusetts Rices
The Jacob Rice Family of Knox Co., Illinois
(Descent from Nicholas Rice of Kentucky)
> Other Descendants of Nicholas Rice
> Notes on Nicholas Rice Background
Indiana Rice Marriages Through 1850
(Part 1)
Quick Links for Curious Rice Ancestor Chasers
BOOK ONE INDEX
BOOK TWO INDEX
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of Courtship and Marriage
Go'in a Courtin'
Seth Rice had been a bachelor for a long time. Nearing middle life, he became enamoured of a young widow.
Neighbors watched the courtship with curiosity and interest.
One day while driving home from town, Seth stopped his team to chat with a neighbor. After the weather and other topics had been exhausted, the neighbor inquired: "Well, Seth, how goes the courtin'?"
Seth is said to have replied "Wal, I'll tell ye: it ain't so very laborious, but it's mighty putterin' business!"
This story was passed down through many generations of the New England family of Jotham Rice. During the 1950s, the story appeared in a popular magazine.
An old history of Framingham, Massachusetts, prints this note:
"Cousin Jonathan Rice--I know not what my wife's business was to your house today, unless it was to get you to buy something considerable for her. Therefore, these may give you to understand that I don't allow of your laying out any money for her, unless it be for a few pins or pappen (paper) or such like. So I remain your loving friend--Nov. 18, 1708."
(The above stories were found in More About Those Rices, a 1954 book authored by Elsie Hawes Smith)
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FELLOW ROOT DIGGERS AND BRANCH CLIMBERS
The Tree That Ate Roger Williams
Rhode Island's founder, Roger Williams (1603-1683), was, in death, the subject of a strange phenomena. A preserved tree root provides the evidence.
Theologian Roger Williams was renowned as an advocate of religious freedom and separation of church and state, issues not popular in his day. This story, however, is about what happened to his interred body.
The body of 17th century religious emancipator Roger Williams was eaten by a tree. First, the events that led to this unique discovery.
Williams was buried in a poorly marked grave in the back yard of his home. Fifty-six years later a workman accidentally broke into Williams' coffin while excavating a nearby grave, exposing the bones.
In 1860, Stephen Randall, a Roger Williams descendant, ordered workmen to exhume the remains from the Providence, RI plot and transfer them to a more suitable tomb. The excavation, however, yielded only a few badly rusted coffin nails and scraps of rotten wood. No bones were found.
The workmen, however, did find something extraordinary. The ramifying root of a nearby apple tree lay exactly where the remains should have been and it had taken the shape of Williams' body, from head to heels.
As it grew, the root apparently had encountered Williams' skull and followed the path of least resistance, inching down the side of his head, backbone, hips and legs, molding itself closely to the contours of his body.
The corpse itself was gone-absorbed into the tree through the roots. The tree had enveloped, then absorbed Roger Williams.
The human-shaped root was removed for safekeeping and given to the Rhode Island Historical Society in Providence.
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Announcing Our First Query Edition
Our readers are wonderful...so wonderful that I cannot keep up with your mail.
The best solution now seems to be a twice yearly query edition presenting your Rice genealogy problems to our entire readership to see who can best help!
The first query edition will be Vol. 2, No. 5. That is the issue scheduled for mailing March 6.
I will start the issue off with the queries I have on hand. If you have not sent me notes on your earliest known Rice ancestor or think I may not have your query, send this info to me.
Please give at least one date and geographical location in your query. If you know which DNA group your Rice belongs to, give that designation also.
Queries will be arranged first by DNA group. When that group number is not available, the queries will be in a miscellaneous section, arranged by geographical regions.
PLEASE EMAIL ALL QUERIES TO ME NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 25.
Rosemary
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Here Comes the Circus Train!
Photo � by JGHowes
Thomas Jefferson Rice & Circus Promoter P. T. Barnum
The interesting life of Thomas Jefferson Rice, a business entrepreneur and lawyer, included an encounter with P. T. Barnum, who probably was the greatest circus owner and promoter the United States ever had.
Both were young men. Thomas had been admitted to the bar in 1830 and was practicing law in Marceullus, NY. A court case took him to Utica, NY, where Phineas Taylor Barnum was stayng in the same hotel.
Barnum, a poor young man just starting out, was seedily dressed, but even then knew how important it was to present a good appearance. He also knew how to get attention by doing the unexpected. He asked Rice, a stranger, for the loan of his good bearskin coat to wear to New York, where Barnum expected to get financial backing for his venture.
Rice, remembering how difficult it had been for him to get a start in life, let the young man take the coat. He never saw it again, although he did draw up many papers for Barnum. Fifteen years later he received from P. T. Barnum a check for $1500.00 and a free pass for the whole family to the circus whenever they could attend. The accompanying note said "The best fifteen hundred I ever spent." Do you suppose he was still wearing the coat? Rice's grandson, Thomas Jeff Rice, once said the family never missed the circus when it was performing nearby. (Picture of Barnum at right was taken by famous photographer Mathew Brady.)
Barnum has been described by some biographers as perpetuating hoaxes, even though he often exposed the fraudulent practices of other showmen. The experience of Rice and many others indicates that Barnum was a man of moralilty who took his business seriously. The record also shows that Barnum supported many charities and regularly gave large sums of money to Tufts University and other institutions.
Barnum did not become involved in the traveling circus until he was well into middle age. During the early years of Barnum's 44-year marriage to Charity Hallett he owned a general store, was involved in the book auctioning trade, dabbled in real estate speculation, and operated a state-wide lottery network. In 1929, he started a weekly newspaper in Danbury, CT. After his main income was cut off in 1834, when Connecticut banned lotteries, he moved to New York.
Barnum's road to fame began with his American Museum on Broadway in New York City and his sponsorship of an American tour for Swedish singer Jenny Lind. His European tour with midget Tom Thumb was another money garnering scheme.
He probably was the first American entertainer to make more than a million dollars. This Wikipedia description of his museum gives an idea of his flair for things flamboyant and unusual:
[Barnum added a lighthouse lamp which attracted attention up and down Broadway and flags along the roof's edge that attracted attention in daytime. From between the upper windows, giant paintings of animals drew stares from pedestrians. The roof was transformed to a strolling garden with a view of the city, where hot-air balloon rides were launched daily. To the static exhibits of stuffed animals were added a changing series of live acts and "curiosities", including albinos, giants, midgets, "fat boys", jugglers, magicians, "exotic women", detailed models of cities and famous battles, and eventually a menagerie of animals.]
Barnum, one of 10 children, was the third great-grandson of Thomas Barnum (1625-1695), the immigrant ancestor of the Barnum family in North America. His maternal grandfather, Phineas Taylor, was a legislator, landowner, justice of the peace, and lottery schemer who had a great influence on this favorite grandson.
This is a parody of a New York Times ad for Jenny Lind's American tour. Barnum paid all expenses up front for Jenny Lind to sing in America at $1,000 per night for 150 nights. Barnum took a huge risk, but ended up quadrupling his investment. A crowd of 40,000 greeted her at the docks, with another 20,000 at her hotel.
LEFT: A Poster for one of P. T. Barnum's productions.
Who Was Thomas Jefferson Rice?
This begins as a story of what happened to a descendant of the seventh child of the seventh child of Edward Rice, second son of Edmund-1 Rice, the immigrant. It was a family on the move.
Edward's seventh child Jacob grew up in Marlboro, MA, married Mary _(?)_ and raised nine children, the oldest four of whom moved to Brookfield, MA. Jacob's seventh child, Jacob, wed Hannah Howe and moved to nearby Westboro, where they had eight children. The sixth was Jacob, an ambitious young man who graduated from Harvard in 1765 as a minister.
Jacib accepted a call as first minister of a congregation being formed at Henniker, NH. He married Ruth Goddard. In 1773 Jacob had a severe attack of measles. He never fully recovered, his sight was impaired and he could not always preach on Sunday. Eventually parishioners asked that he preach, hire someone to do it for him, or resign. He remained until dismissed in 1782, but the older settlers continued to be his friends and supporters.
Jacob Rice stayed in Henniker, barely surviving by preaching some and farming. His wife died in 1799 and some of his children are thought to have moved to Brownfield, ME. In 1806, Jacob received a call to Brownfield, where he probably lived with one of his children and, due to his poor health, probably received only a small stipend.
One Sunday morning in 1824 Jacob was stricken with apoplexy while preaching. The epitaph on his gravestone reads:
"One Sabbath day while at his post
He fell and yielded up the ghost;
One half his message was not yet said
Ere he was numbered with the dead.
Jacob and Ruth's seven children scattered. One daughter married and went to Virginia; four lived intermittently at Brownfield, ME. Calvin and Eber took their families to Ohio in 1817.
The line we are following continues through their oldest son, Shuthelah G. Rice. He, too, bought several sailing ships, never enjoyed good health and ws unable to support his children. The boys were bound out at an early age. Shuthelah Jr. became a Baptist minister and learned the hatter's trade at Camden, ME. There, he sold his hat business and, with his brother Hannibal, Shuthelah bought several vessels and started a shipping business, which became successful. Capt. Hannibal Rice was still sailing the seas at his 80th birthday.
In 1845, Shuthelah sold his share in the shipping business and started west. Near the little village of Chicago he bought several large tracts of land, sent for his wife and children. Unfortunately, Shuthelah had settled with hordes of mosquitoes. The family was constantly sick with "ague fever." A year later they moved on to Michigan, where he became a circuit rider for the Baptist Church.
Shuthelah's children, all born in Camden, Maine, also scattered. Son James was a Civil War messenger boy under General Custer. Once he rode to Washington with a message for President Lincoln.
The son we are interested in is Thomas Jefferson Rice, who was at age 5 bound out to a Hawkins family who lived near Herkimer, NY. They were kind and gave him a good education. When he was 18, Thomas decided to be a lawyer. He borrowed law books and studied them by the fireside. On his 21st birthday, Mr. Hawkins gave Thomas four eight-cornered gold slugs, each worth $50, and his favorite saddle horse, telling him he could remain with them, doing chores for his board. He taught school winters and studied evenings. Two years later he went to Marcellus, NY and entered the law office of an aging lawyer.
After being admitted to the bar in 1830, Thomas married Betsy Olmstead and started a family. Even though he soon had a successful law practice in Marcellus, he also had wanderlust. He struck out alone for Buffalo, worked his way on a Great Lakes freighter to Toledo, then a small village, and set out on foot for Michigan.
Thomas arrived at a beautiful lake where friendly Indians told him of nearby settlers. He found them and purchased 100 acres along the lake. After building a cabin and barn and clearing land for crops, he sent for his wife and son Jay. They traveled by boat up the Erie Canal to Detroit, where Thomas met them with a borrowed ox cart.
As the settlement grew, he practised law, dabbled in real estate and wrote. He built a small cabin a little distance from the house where he could think in peace because, he said, his wife talked too much. She, too, was a writer whose poems were published in several magazines.
Some said Thosmas Jefferson Rice's thoughts were 100 years ahead of his time. He scoffed at spiritualism, but predicted mental telepathy, voices from afar through esoteric waves, men flying through the air, and destructive forces impossible to vision. His life was chock full of interesting experiences. He, of course, is the Thomas Rice who loaned his coat to P. T. Barnum and never got it back.
There was sadness in the Rice household. Son Jay died at 32, leaving five little children. Son Mark, a promising lawyer, died at 25. Son Hugh carried this Rice line further and his son, another Thomas Jefferson Rice, furnished many interesting stories about this family to Elsie Hawes Smith, a former historian of the Edmund Rice Association. They are included in her 1954 book, More About Those Rices.
The first Thomas Jefferson Rice lived to be well over 80, seeing thriving cities grow where once only woods had been. He is buried in a cemetery at Hamburg, Michigan.
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 SOUTHERN FAMILY TREES
Still Hunting for Henry Rice
SEARCH INCLUDES DATA FORPENDLETON CO., SC, RICES
A couple dozen researchers have, for many years, been trying to track down the ancestry of "Henry Rice, the Gristmiller", who died in Tennessee in 1818, reportedly at age 101.
One point on the trail is Pendleton Co., SC, where he is believed to have lived before going to Tennessee. He gave a power of attorney to his son, Charles Rice, in 1800 to sell his land in Pendleton District.
Following are some land plats. Data on any of those named would be most welcome!
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FROM 96th DISTRICT, PENDLETON CO., SC.
RECORDED STATE PLATS - INDEX I
NAME LOCATION ACRES VOLUME PAGE DATE________________
RICE, Charles 96 200 15g 106 6 Apr. 1785
" Charles 96 200 15g 106 6 Apr. 1785
" Henry 96 468 20 gg 269 23 Mar. 1787
" James 96 292 15 g 99 7 Apr. 1785
" James 96 48 27 507 5 Dec. 1791
" James 96 28 31 110 24 Nov. 1793
The following surveys of plats and royal grants can be consulted at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History in Columbia, SC.
INDEX TO LAND SURVEY, 1731-1776
NAME LOCATION ACRES VOLUME PAGE DATE________
RICE, Adam Broad River 150 21 215 28 July 1756
" Anna Berkeley 100 10 178 23 June 1768
" Elizabeth Saluda River 100 20 96 28 July 1773
" Evan Saxegotha 250 4 382 17 Nov. 1747
" Jno. Henrich Amelia 100 6 208 8 July 1757
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What Our Readers Write 
RICE SLAVE OWNERS IN 1850
Printing List Not a Good Idea
To Whom It May Concern:
Printing a list of slaveholders is not a good idea. Rice researchers have access to the slaveholder censuses of 1850 and 1860 elsewhere.
Donna McCreary Rodriguez
Rices of Georgia, Alabama, and Texas
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He was Izard Bacon Rice
Hi Rosemary,
Thanks SOO much for the compilation of slaveholders. I can eliminate ??'s for a couple of them. ??D B Rice, Northern District, Halifax, Virginia, and ??Ard B Rice, Charlotte, Virginia, are both Izard Bacon Rice, owner of South Isle Plantation in Charlotte. You'll remember him as the brother of Sarah Bacon Rice who married Walter Crew(s).*
Samuel D Rice, Southern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, is my GGGGgrandfather. His son-in-law, Hutchings B. Price, is listed just above him.
Best,
JoAnn Rice
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Editor's Reply
Although Donna has a good point--being that there is no reason to publish readily accessible data--there is also the question of what purpose is achieved. It is my feeling that our purpose is networking. This particular list does not name parents, spouses or children. Some of our readers, however, have this data and can share it with others. A case in point is that JoAnn obviously has more information on some of these slave owners. When we publish such a list, any reader can write in and ask if any other reader has information on a specific person. Do any of our other readers have strong feelings about this?
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Wallingford Royces vs. Massachusetts Rices
Hi!
My ears always prick up when I see "Rice" and "Wallingford" in the same sentence... or even paragraph. I noticed in the article about Orlando B. Potter that he was the son of a gentleman from Wallingford, CT and that he married a "Rice." I know that you mentioned the gentleman who was related to these individuals as having been quite active in the Edmund Rice Association, but I also know that for years more than one genealogist told me that there was "no way" that I could be related to the Royce Family of Connecticut because my relatives (who bounced between Readsboro,VT and CT) spelled the name "Rice." Charlemont, of course, is close to Readsboro, VT (and some of my relatives also lived there or near there) but, of course, is also a main route west from eastern Massachusetts. I'm just wondering if they've got proof that it really is the Edmund Rice family versus either the Royce or some other Rice that was in the area at the time.
(Sometimes I wish I had ALL my genealogy books here with me in Mexico!)
Meg Sondey
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Editor's Reply
Like you, I am always looking for tie-ins based upon geographical locations. However, in the case of the Rices vs. the Royces you can find both spellings in both branches of the family.
The children of Samuel and Sophia (Rice) Potter are listed in Andrew H. Ward's 1858 genealogy on the descendants of Edmund-1 Rice. That genealogy doesn't offer much in the way of documentation. For the last several years, however, the Edmund Rice Association has started with Edmund and his children and attempted to document all lines as given in Ward's book and other compilations of Edmund's descendants. This effort has resulted in documentable sources, as well as links to the bibliography accompanying the online data base. The line from Orlando Potter's grandparents--Samuel and Dorothy (Houghton) Rice of Charlemont, MA--back has documentation for the preceding generations. There are links to both the sources and each generation. There seems no doubt that Orlando's mother, Sophia, was born in Charlemont and that it is his father, Samuel Potter, who was from Wallingford. Here is the jumping off point in the online data base.
Rosemary
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THE JACOB RICE FAMILY OF KNOX CO., ILLINOIS
Other Descendants of Nicholas Rice
There are multiple sections to this third and final part of our story that started out with the Jacob Rice family. Jacob was a son of Jonathan and grandson of Nicholas Rice. We start below with descent from Jonathan's brother, who was also named Jacob.
The Family of Another Jacob Rice
(Uncle of the Jacob We Started With)
(Contributed by Descendant James Robert Rice Jr. of Silverlake, KS)
GENERATION No. 1
1. NICHOLAS' RICE was born 1745. He married MARY ANN MARILDA HICKMAN.
Child of NICHOLAS RICE and MARY HICKMAN is:
2. i. JACOB RICE, b. January 26, 1780.
GENERATION No. 2
2. JACOB RICE (NICHOLAS-1) was born January 26, 1781. He married Suzannah PECKENPAUGH October 01, 1802 in Brandenburg, KY, daughter of GEORGE PECKENPAUGH and CATHERINE TULLIS. She was born October 25, 1785 in Fayette Co , PA, and died 1854 in Alton, IN.
Children of JACOB RICE and SUZANNAH PECKENPAUGH are:
3. i. MARY ADELINE RICE, b. July 27,1822; d. Dec.12, 1918; Alton, Crawford Co., IN.
ii. POLLLY RICE, b. 1807, Fort Hardin, Hardenburg, KY.
iii. CATHERINE RICE, b. June 25,1809; d. Dec.12,1860; m. WILLIAM ROBERTS.
iv. NICHOLAS RICE, b. May 02,1811; d. Jan. 23, 1859; m. DELILAH SAMUEL.
v. ELIZABETH RICE, b. Dec. 30, 1814; d. Feb. 08, 1874, Alton, IN; m. WILLIAM HOLLCROFT, May 17, 1844; Alton, IN.
vi. MARILDA ELLEN RICE, b. June 19,1816; d. April 18,1894; m. HIRAM MAYLIN.
vii. JONATHAN HICKMAN RICE, b. April 15, 1818.
viii. SALLIE RICE, b. May 05,1820
ix. SUSANNAH RICE, b. January 01, 1822; d. July 24, 1860; m. GREENBURG ROBERTS.
x. ABNER K. RICE, b. May 12,1825; d. Nov.11, 1920; m. LOUISA HARRIET LEAS.
3. MARY ADELINE-3 RICE (JACOB-2, NICHOLAS-l RICE) was born July 27, 1822, and died December 12, 1918 in Alton, IN. She married ELIJAH POSEY TIFTON HOLLCROFT Sept.27, 1846 in Crawford Co., IN, son of NATHANIEL HOLLCROFT and ELIZABETH SMOOT. He was born Feb.15, 1824, and died July 23, 1896 in Alton, IN.
More About MARY ADELINE RICE: Burial: Orchard Knob cem, Alton, IN.
More About ELIJAH POSEY TIPTON HOLLCROFT: Burial: Orchard Knob cem, Alton, IN.
Children of MARY RICE and ELIJAH-I HOLLCROFT are:
4 i. MARY ADELINE-4 HOLLCROFT, b. Nov. 11, 1859, Alton IN; d. April 04,1894.
ii. ALONZO DEMETRUIS HOLLCROFT, b. Dec.17,1847; d. May 17, 1854.
iii. NATHANIEL SIDNEY HOLLCROFT, b. May 10, 1850; d. Sept. 16,1916; m.ALICE GAILEY, Sept. 18, 1876.
iv. BELLE IRENE HOLLCROFT, b. April 11, 1852; d. June 12, 1854.
v. MANUEL RITTER HOLLCROFT, b. May 08,1854- d. Nov., 1854
vi. BENJAMIN HURST HOLLCROFT, b. Dec. 06, 1855; d. April 13, 1920.
vii. MARTIC ELLEN HOLLCROFT, b. Dec. 06,1858; d. Feb. 04,1950; m. RUFUS SMITH, Sept., 1873.
viii. CORA AMELIA HOLLCROFT, b. August 24,1861; d. April 12,1938
ix. JAMES KNEELAND HOLLCROFT, b. Sept. 19, 1863; d. Feb. 24, 1914
x. ELIZABETH RICE HOLLCROFT, b. Nov. 01, 1865; d. February 24,1914; m. JOHN BURCH; d. Kansas City.
xi. ELIJAH HOLLCROFT JR, b. September 19,1867.
GENERATION No.4
4. MARY ADELINE HOLLCROFT, b. Nov. 11, 1859, Alton, IN; d. April 04, 1894. She is buried at Alton, IN. She married James Rice* June 15, 1880 at Brandenburg, Meade Co., KY. He was born June 15, 1859 at Ghent in Carroll Co., KY, the son of JOHN RICE and AMELIA HOGGINS.
Children of MARY HOLLCROFT and JAMES RICE are:
i. TEMPLE RICE.
ii. HELEN ADELINE RICE, b. April 01, 1881.
5. iii. JAMES HUBERT RICE, b. Sept. 09, 1882, Texas; d. August 24, 1965, Louisville, KY.
iv. LEONIA ADELINE RICE, b. October I5, 1884.
v. JOHN RICE, b. January 23, 1886.
CORA AMELIA HOLLCROFT was born August 24, 1861 and died
April 12, 1938. She married CHARLES ATWOON.
Child of CORA and CHARLES ATWOON:
i. LONA ATWOON.
* EDITOR'S NOTE: This James Rice is a member of DNA Group 4. Descent is from a James Rice of Virginia who was born in 1736 and married Alice Hix. He is not related to Nicholas Rice, his wife's Rice ancestor.
GENERATION 5
6. JAMES HUBERT-5 RICE (ADELINE-4 HOLLCROFT, MARY ADELINE-3, JACOB-2, NICHOLAS-1 RICE) was born Sept. 09, 1882 in Texas, and died August 24, 1965 in Louisville, KY. He married FANNIE ADDIE RILEY January 23, 1907, daughter of ROBERT RILEY and LOUISA DUNIA. She was born June 07, 1885 in Alton, Crawford Co., IN, died March 08,1917 in Alton, IN, and was buried in Alton.
Notes for JAMES HUBERT RICE:
1934 Louisville, KY City Directory: tester, Stan Stan Mfg. Co.
Medical Information: Broncho pneumonia, ulcer of duodenum perforated; post-operative, malnutrition, arteriosclerotic heart disease, pulmonary infarction
Children of JAMES RICE and FANNIE RILEY are:
i. LOUISA ADELINE6 RICE, b. 1908
7. ii. JAMES ROBERT RICE, b. April 21, 1912, Heyworth, IL; d. Dec.18, 1991, Jeffersonville, IN
iii. MALA EVA RICE, b. August 15,1916.
GENERATION 6
7. JAMES ROBERT-RICE (James Hubert-5, ADELINE-4 HOLLCROFT, MARY ADELINE-3, JACOB-2, NICHOLAS-1 RICE) ) was born April 21, 1912 in Heyworth, IL, and died December 18, 1991 in Jeffersonville, IN. He married (1) BLANCHE ELMER BECK, daughter of ABSOLOM BECK and MATTIE LUCKEY. She died in Silverlake, KS. He married (2) LENA PEARL KESTLER IN 1936. They were divorced in 1946. James is listed in the 1934 Louisville, KY directory.
(This information was furnished by James Robert Rice Jr.)
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Settling Estate of Nicholas-1 Rice of Kentucky
Breckinridge County Deed Book C (1810-1816) page 107:
Whereas Nicholas Rice, dec'd, gave in his lifetime to his son Jacob Rice land where Jacob Rice now lives, 266 acres, on which said Nicholas Rice held a bond on Thomas Bower for the conveyance and said Nicholas Rice departed this life without making any will or giving the said Jacob Rice any writing for the conveyance of said land, now we, Adam Bruner and Elizabeth his wife, late Elizabeth Rice, Belsar ? Claycomb and Catherine his wife, late Catherine Rice, Nicholas Coonts and Thomas Dowel and Anna his wife, late Anna Coonts, descendents of Polly Coonts, dec'd, late Polly Rice, Henry Dean and Sally his wife, late Sally Rice, Jacob Wise and Nancy his wife, late Nancy Rice, John Peckenpaugh and Christina his wife, late Christina Rice, Nathaniel Hamilton, adm. of John Hamilton, dec'd for and in behalf of the heirs of John Hamilton and Hannah his wife, late Hannah Rice now deceased, Rachel Rice and Jonathan Rice, who are heirs and legal representatives of the said Nicholas Rice, dec'd, in consideration of the gift made by the said intestator and also in consideration of the said Jacob Rice having relinquished all claim on the estate of the said Nicholas Rice, dec'd., transfer without any recourse to us or our heirs the said bond held by Nicholas Rice on the said Thomas Bower for the conveyance of the said 266 acres where Jacob Rice now lives this 18th day of December 1809.
(Signed by all parties mentioned above
Endorsement reads "I Jacob Rice, do hereby transfer to Robert Hendrick and
Calvin Hendrick all my right, title and interest in and to the above
mentioned bond on Thomas Bower and also agree to procure the signature of
Nicholas Coonts to the within transfer as soon as he comes of age."
June 18, 1811.
Witnessed by Jo. Allen
Recorded June 18, 1811
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The Ancestry of Nicholas Rice
Contributor James R. Rice says his ancestor, Jacob Rice (1780-1840), was born at Rice's Fort, which was located in the present Washington Co. in western Pennsylvania. This would mean that Nicholas and his wife, the former Mary Ann Hickman, came to Kentucky from there.
An often told story is that four brothers from Germany settled first at Hagerstown, Maryland, then one or two of them went west and founded Rice's Fort.
Other researchers of the Nicholas Rice family say they have no proof of the origin of Nicholas Rice.
Upcoming Book 4 of the Rice Book Project will contain information on the Rices of Rice's Fort and their descendants but, unless new information comes in, their ancestry and and prior residence will not be documented.
Book 4 will also discuss the Rice's Landing Rices in Pennsylvania, who also have ties to Maryland. A few descendants of these Rices have been DNA tested, but your editor has not seen anything that connects them to the Rice's Fort Rices, or shows common ancestry.
Other researchers of the Nicholas Rice family say they have no proof of the origin of Nicholas Rice.
There are Rices of both German and English ancestry in Frederick Co., MD, at an early date.
Researcher Jan Chastain Lund says: "Our Nicholas RICE was associated with a Charles HICKMAN. In fact, he was appointed attorney for Charles in some land purchases. Many of Charles HICKMAN's daughters married into the MILLER family. Nicholas Rice married Mary Ann Marilda Elizabeth HICKMAN 26
October 1765 in the part of Virginia that became Jefferson County, Kentucky.
We've never been able to prove the relationship between Mary Ann and Charles HICKMAN. It could have been her brother.
Does anyone else have material on the Nicholas Rice family?
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Indiana State Library Genealogy Database:
Rice Family Marriages Through 1850
PART 1
This Index to Indiana Marriages Through 1850 began many years ago through a project initiated by Dorothy Riker, the late former Editor of The Hoosier Genealogist, which listed the name of the groom in county listings in this publication. Later, brides' names were added to the original card set of groom names in the Genealogy Division.
Volunteers expanded the card set to include all dates through 1850 for counties where marriage records existed. This became a database which contains approximately 330,000 records totaling 90.5 MB of electronic data.
The database includes marriages which were noted from the early Quaker monthly meetings in Indiana. These Quaker marriages were listed in the Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana compiled by Willard Heiss, (Call Number Geneal. 929.102 F911h v. 7). In addition, the database includes listings for the St. Francis Xavier parish church in Vincennes, Indiana which date from 1749.
There may be some misinterpretation of the information from the original records or indexes that were included in the database due to the number of volunteers that worked on the project. The library staff continues to proofread the database and make needed corrections. The library invites comments and suggestions. Corrections to the database will be made only if an exact copy of the marriage license or return is sent to this address: Indiana State Library - Genealogy Division,
140 North Senate Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296.
LAST NAME, FIRST NAME / SPOUSE: LAST NAME, FIRST NAME / COUNTY / DATE
RICE AARON & SHROYER NANCY - Union 5-6-1830
RICE ABIGAIL & ELLINGWOOD ELIJAH - Dearborn 7-25-1841
RICE ABRAHAM & BUCHANAN DARCUS - Montgomery 1-8-1835
RICE ABRAHAM & GWARTNEY SARAH - Harrison 3-6-1817
RICE AIREYANN & WILLIAMS SAMUEL F - Wayne 3-10-1840
RICE ALFRED & ANDERSON FRANCES JANE - Rush 11-2-1848
RICE ALLEN & THOMPSON KATHARINE - Perry 2-3-1822
RICE ALMEDA & HICKMAN ROBERT B - Owen 1-17-1850
RICE ALMIRA & DUGAN CHARLES - Warrick 1-7-1836
RICE AMOS & COMPTON SARAH - Vigo 8-18-1830
RICE ANGELINE & SEARL STEDHAM B - Cass 5-20-1840
RICE ANN & BELL JOHN G - Scott 1-23-1833
RICE ANN & LITTLEJOHN LEMUEL - Jefferson 5-25-1825
RICE ANNA & HARBISON JAMES - Harrison 7-18-1809
RICE ANNAH & LUCKETT ALFRED - Harrison 8-29-1830
RICE AXLEY & HUNSAKER ELENDER - Warrick 12-20-1832
RICE BENJAMIN & KIMSEY MARY - Adams 8-8-1839
RICE BENJAMIN JAMES & PILLARS ELIZABETH - Adams 9-6-1838
RICE BENJAMIN WILLIAM & CORNWELL SARAH E - Monroe 12-27-1846
RICE BERNARD & REED ANN - Vigo 11-14-1847
RICE BETSEY & HARGROVE JOHN D - Marion 8-13-1834
RICE CALVIN & BROWN NANCY - Allen 3-24-1835
RICE CATHERINE & HIGGINSON DANIEL - Vigo 1-4-1842
RICE CATHERINE & ROBERTS WILLIAM - Crawford 11-15-1838
RICE CATHERINE & TAYLOR GRAYSON S - Floyd 4-7-1825
RICE CHARLES & GRINSTEAD MARIAH JANE - Jennings 10-29-1840
RICE CHARLES & HINKLEY EMELINE - Wells 10-26-1851
RICE CHARLOTTE & DICE HENRY - Fountain 9-6-1847
RICE CLARISA & CARNAHAN WILLIAM H - Warrick 6-10-1832
RICE CLARISSA & BATZ BENJAMIN - Fulton 9-26-1848
RICE CLARISSA A & SMITH WILLIAM W - La Porte 5-28-1849
RICE CYNTHEANN & JONES RICHARD W - Spencer 05-1840
RICE DANIEL & NICKEY ROSANNA - Allen 7-7-1840
RICE DAVID & FORGASON TOBITHA - Hendricks 7-24-1833
RICE DAVID & HANCOCK LEVINA - Hendricks 11-26-1836
RICE DAVID & JONES ROSANNA - Hancock 12-20-1839
RICE DAVID E T & THORNTON MARY M - Jefferson 11-5-1839
RICE DAVID J & BRACKIN ELIZABETH - Bartholomew 3-17-1840
RICE DEMSEY JR & WILLIAMS ELEANOR - Washington 7-11-1833
RICE DEWITT C & DURAND SAVILLA - La Grange 7-2-1848
RICE DIODEMIA & YOUNG WASHINGTON - Shelby 11-5-1831
RICE DRUSILLA & HAMILTON ELISHA - Washington 10-26-1843
RICE DULSENA P & BURK FRANCIS HENRY - Shelby 4-1-1841
RICE EBENEZER JR & EARWOOD RACHEL - Scott 1-31-1828
RICE EDMUND W & GUTHRIE RUTH - Jackson 11-17-1847
RICE EDNA & HINKLEY HENRY P - Wells 10-5-1851
RICE EDWARD & PENINGTON CATHARINE - Harrison 9-9-1830 (see next item)
RICE EDWARD & PENNINGTON RACHEL - Harrison 7-23-1836
RICE ELIZA & BATTERTON JAMES M - Shelby 4-3-1834
RICE ELIZA & HILRINCH SAMUEL - La Porte 1-11-1850
RICE ELIZA & MC MURTREY JAMES - Crawford 4-5-1829
RICE ELIZA & SHEFLIN JOHN - Floyd 6-15-1841
RICE ELIZA JANE & ISOM HENRY - Monroe 12-19-1847
RICE ELIZABETH & ALLCORN GEORGE - Monroe 2-12-1833
RICE ELIZABETH & BOOTS ASA - Montgomery 3-18-1845
RICE ELIZABETH & CRAYCRAFT ELKANAH - Washington 7-6-1837
RICE ELIZABETH & CROSS JAMES H - Warrick 12-24-1849
RICE ELIZABETH & DAVIS REES - Montgomery 5-3-1832
RICE ELIZABETH & HAMILTON JAMES - Washington 9-24-1840
RICE ELIZABETH & HOLLCROFT WILLIAM R - Crawford 9-7-1845
RICE ELIZABETH & KELLY AUSTIN - Spencer 11-1-1849
RICE ELIZABETH & PAYNE JOHN W - Harrison 5-19-1827
RICE ELIZABETH & TUCKER SAMUEL - Adams 11-6-1849
RICE ELIZABETH J & RICE ISAAC - Montgomery 11-11-1847
RICE EMILY & PATEE RICHARD - Allen 6-11-1843
RICE ESTHER & STANSBURY JOHN - Scott 10-14-1830
RICE FRANCIS & KIPLINGER MARY J - Fountain 5-19-1850
RICE FRANK & JOHNSON DELILAH - Vigo 12-20-1849
RICE FREDRICA & SHAFER CHRISTIAN - Vanderburgh 6-23-1840
RICE GABRIEL & SPRINGSTON ELIZABETH - Spencer 4-6-1844
RICE GEORGE & FOREMAN MARY - Harrison 3-26-1846
RICE GEORGE & HAWKINS SABRAY - Lawrence 12-29-1819
RICE GEORGE & KUNTZ KATHERINE - Ripley 6-29-1841
RICE GEORGE W & FLOYD MARIA - Warrick 6-7-1850
RICE GILES & CLINE BETSY - Scott 9-11-1837
RICE HANNAH & BLAIR SAMUEL - Vermillion 7-28-1825
RICE HARRIET & WARNER ISAAC - Kosciusko 11-8-1849
RICE HARRIETT E & WOLF LEONARD P - Hancock 12-18-1845
RICE HESTERINE & SMITH WILLIAM - Scott 10-31-1833
RICE HEZEKIAH & SCOTT HARRIET - Clark 5-23-1827
RICE IRENA R & CATHCART DAVID D - Elkhart 1-1-1847
RICE ISAAC & DE WESSE JANE - Putnam 8-3-1824
RICE ISAAC & RICE ELIZABETH J - Montgomery 11-11-1847
RICE ISAAC & SELLERS ELIZA - Putnam 10-19-1848
RICE ISAAC & SHOOK MARGARET - Knox 5-30-1811
RICE ISAAC & STEPHENS MARGARET - Fountain 11-20-1841
RICE ISABEL & HAM HARVEY E - Monroe 2-27-1838
RICE J BENJAMIN & PILLARS MARY - Adams 8-29-1847
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