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Your Rice Family Ezine
Generation by Generation ~ Century by Century
TWICE MONTHLY VOL. 2, NO. 7 April 3, 2009
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Spring Nostalgia
Back Home on the Family Farm
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IN THIS ISSUE
FEATURING LINEAGE SOCIETIES
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More for Root Diggers &
Branch Climbers:
~ What to do with yellowed newspaper clippings
~ Looking for a genealogy related job?
~ Humorous gravestone inscription
A Personal Note from the Editor: Stories About Life in the Colonial Period
Southern Family Trees:
Spencer & Laban Rice Family (VA/AL/TX)
Biographies of Three Alabama Rices:
Carter H. Rice, Francisco Rice and Joseph Rice, Esq.
Easter Greetings
Miscellaneous Tidbits:
~ Rice Marriage, Sedgwick Co., Kansas
~ Old Rees/Reece/Reese Query
~ The Ship Charles G. Rice
A Set of Rice SAR Lineage Papers: Descent from Rev. War Soldier
Jeduthan Rice of Massachusetts
Genealogical Resources:
Advantages of Joining Lineage Societies
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Links to Articles on Popular Lineage Societies
Indiana Rice Marriages Through 1850
(Part 3)
Next Issue:
Follow-up on Our
DNA/Query Edition
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REECE/REESE
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WEBSITE OF JOHN FOX
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(Send links to your genealogy pages; they must include a Rice line.)
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ARE THERE SPRING BUDS ON YOUR FAMILY TREE
1) If you are not a male bearing the Rice surname, find a relative who is and have a DNA test done.
2) Send in the name of your earliest known Rice ancestor, giving at least one date and location, and we will try to match it with those families being researched by other readers. Email: ricebooksreb@yahoo.com
If your newsletter looks like it is not properly formatted, or is garbled, please let us know!
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May you and
all of your
loved ones
Have a joyous and blessed Easter
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Featuring Lineage Societies
In this issue we feature lineage societies, listing some, giving links to others and using as an example of lineage papers one set that documents descent from a Rice Revolutionary War soldier.
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FELLOW ROOT DIGGERS AND BRANCH CLIMBERS
WHAT TO DO WITH YELLOWED NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
The acid in newsprint is what causes old newspapers and clippings to turn yellow and self-destruct. One way to revive old newsprint is to soak it in a solution of four tablespoons of milk of magnesia mixed with a quart of club soda. After the clippings have been dipped in the solution, let them drip dry supported on nylon netting. When most of the moisture has evaporated, they may be pressed between sheets of white blotting paper weighed down by books.
LOOKING FOR A GENEALOGY-RELATED JOB? Between now and the spring of 2010 the U.S. Census Bureau will be hiring people to work on the 2010 census. In addition to census takers, the bureau needs people to check address lists and prepare for the census. These part time jobs pay well and are available in every state. This website gives information.
GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTION
Death's advantage over life I spye:
Here one husband
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A PERSONAL NOTE FROM YOUR EDITOR
Articles on Colonial American History
I still do some freelance writing and would like to share with you some of my online articles about colonial American history. I have given a partial  list of titles and links below. There are some other links in this issue's story about lineage societies. Most of the articles I write for "Suite" are about history and genealogy, although a few are about current events and other topics that interest me. You can automatically get all of my articles in your email by going to my profile and clicking on the link to the right that says "How to subscribe..." This is a free service. There is also a list of all of my articles on that profile page. I will list some of these articles in our ezine from time to time, but without all this explanation!
Rosemary
Articles About Colonial America
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Spencer & Laban Rice Family (Virginia/Alabama/Texas)
(In our last issue I told reader William Foster to see the query of reader Lynn Melberg since both are researching a Spencer Rice family. I see now that Lynn's query was left out. My apologies. Here is some information which may interest you.)
1840 CENSUS, REPUBLIC OF TEXAS
pg. 11, Laban Rice, living in Washington Co.
1850 CENSUS, BURLESON CO., TEXAS #119 (/Farming) ($800)
Labon Rice, age 65, born Virginia, and Elizabeth Rice, 62, born Tennessee
Johannass (?) Rice, 22, and Elvira Rice, 20, both born in Alabama
#112 (Farming) ($260)
Spence(r) RICE, age 37, born Alabama, and Mary Rice, 40, born Alabama
Children (all born Texas): Labon, 10; William, 8; John, 6; Elizabeth, 2,
and Bob, 2 months.
Note #1: Same info on this family given in 1860 census, but Laban is spelled differently and there is no child named Bob; the youngest child is Joseph, 10. (Maybe he was Robert Joseph or Joseph Robert?)
Note #2: In 1870 census of DeWitt Co., TX, are a Laban Rice, stockman, 29, born Texas, and wife, Martha E., 21, born Louisiana. Living with them are Christine Cleveland, 32, born Mississippi, and Eliza Cleveland, 9, born Texas.
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The 1850 census of Chariton Twp., Randolph Co., MO, lists a son Spencer, 10, whose parents are William H. Rice, farmer, 36, born in Kentucky, and Elizabeth, 32, born in Missouri.
A Spencer Rice is named as an heir in several Jackson Co., Missouri wills. The earliest is the 1844 will of Isaac Rice. The same Spencer Rice is named in the 1851 will of Enoch Rice. However, the 1854 will of James A. Rice names "the heirs of Spencer and David Rice, all living in Jackson County, Missouri."
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An 1830 tax list for Lawrence County in the Missouri Territory says a Laban Rice of Cache Township paid taxes. (Note: Instead of being for the present Lawrence Co., MO, this tax list may be for the present Lawrence Co., AR, which was carved out of the Missouri Territory.
There is a Spencer Rice named in the next story.
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Biographies of Three Alabama Rices
CARTER H. RICE
Carter Harrison Rice was born at Paint Rock, Jackson County, Alabama, Feb. 20, 1862. He was a descendant of William Rice who, with his three sons--George, William and Spencer--came from Ireland in colonial times.
The son George settled in Virginia, Spencer in North Carolina, and William in South Carolina.
Spencer Rice was the ancestor of the Madison Co., Alabama family. A later Spencer Rice, great-grandfather of Carter Harrison Rice, was born in Maryland and died at New Market, Alabama, in 1807. This was the first recorded death of a white person in Madison Co. His home prior to coming to Alabama was Cocke Co., Tennessee, and he and others of his family were identified with the colony of Tennesseans who moved to Madison Co., Alabama, in 1806.
Spencer Rice was a soldier in the American Revolution. His son, Joseph Rice, was born in Cocke Co. in 1797 and was therefore a youth of about 10 years when the family moved to Alabama...Joseph Rice was a soldier in the War of 1812. He died at New Market in March of 1885. His wife was Hannah Bayless, whose father, Hezekiah Bayless, was born in Maryland in 1756 and was an American soldier in the Revolution. (SOURCE: Moore's History of Alabama)
FRANCISCO RICE
Francisco Rice, born Dec. 6, 1822, New Market, Mdison Co., Alabama, was a son of Joseph and Hannah (Bayless) Rice. His father, a native of Cocke Co., Tennessee, was of Ifrish descent. He served in the War of 1812 with Gen. Andrew Jackson...grandson of Spencer Rice, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, whose resided in Maryland, Tennessee and North Carolina, and came to New Market in 1806.
When Francisco Rice was about 20, he was injured by a log falling on him and went west in search of health. In 1846, while in Texas, he joined a Texas Regiment and served in the Mexican War. He later returned to Alabama, practiced medicine, was a merchant and state senator, served in the Civil War and held numerous political posts in Alabama, (SOURCE: Owens' Dictionary of Alabama Biography)
JOSEPH RICE, Esq.
Joseph Rice, Esq., died at the residence of his brother-in-law, W. R. Jones, near New Market, Alabama, of acute bronchitis on Monday, Feb. 12, 1883, in his 86th year.
The deceased was born Nov. 3, 1797 in Cocke Co., Tennessee, whither his parents removed to Buncombe, NC, and in 1806 to the vicinity of what is now New Market in Madison Co., which was organized as a county by the Mississippi Territorial Legislature in 1805. His father, Spencer Rice, dying in 1809 (or 1807?), his mother went back to North Carolina, taking Joseph and his younger brothers Levi and George with her. In a few monhs she died, leaving these little boys to the care of her sister, Mrs. Sarah McCathy.
The subject of this sketch and his brother Levi, young as they were, wishing to live in Alabama, set out on foot and in less than two weeks were again at the present New Market, where Joseph Rice has since resided, except for six years when he lived in Dallas Co., Alabama.
In 1813, when he was about 16 years old, he served under Gen. Jackson as a volunteer in the Creek War and, a friend informs us, was one of a body of volunteers sent from Fayettevile, Tennessee by Gen. Jackson to defend Huntsville from a threatened Indian raid, and they came at a double quick, reaching Huntsville, 30 miles distant, in five hours.
On the 18th of February, 1818, Joseph Rice was married to Johanna Bayless, daughter of Hezekiah Bayless, Esq., who in 1805 settled on the place where John A. Fanning now lives. This union was blessed with nine children, four sons and five daughters, of whom only one son, Dr. Francisco Rice, and three daughters survive him. (Next follow notes on his religion, character, etc., plus mention of his duties as a Justice of the Peace.)
Mr. Carter Rice, a grandson of Joseph Rice, now dead, told us a number of years ago that Joseph's father, Spencer Rice, a Revolutionary Soldier, died here before the county records began. This is the first proof we have found of Spencer Rice's residence, since he died before land in this county was placed on sale by the land Office. He had a number of sons, Othniel being another. (SOURCE; Mrs. Pauline Gandrud's Alabama Records.)
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Miscellaneous Tidbits
from
Odd Scraps of Paper
SEDGWICK CO., KANSAS MARRIAGES
(1892, Book F, Page 29)
Charles B. Rice, 33, of Goddard, Kansas, and Jennie Luckner, 22, of Clearwater, Kansas, Dec. 7, 1892.
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REES/REECE/REESE GENEALOGICAL INQUIRY
This query appeared in Vol. 24, No. 2 (1989) of the Midwest Historical and Genealogical Register. Absalom C. REES/REECE/REESE, b. 1815-1817, Ohio or Canada, son of Nancy (Curry/Cary) Reese and _(?)_ Reese, m. Mary Jane Reynolds, dau/o Henry and Elizabeth (Oaks) Reynolds, after 1860 in Missouri or Iowa; believe Absalom d. Hocking Co., Ohio, before 1903. --- Bev Malone, 1926 Scott, Wichita, KS 67216
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THE SHIP CHARLES G. RICE
The August, 1970 issue of Down East Magazine carried an ad by antique dealers J & J Associates of West Peru, Maine, who were to sell at auction a painting of the ship Charles G. Rice of Portland, Maine, captained by A. W. Smart. It was built in Yarmouth (Maine, Nova Scotia or England?) and sailed to Hong Kong. The ship was a Bark (mizzen-mast-fore-and-aft rigged, main and foremast square-rigged). This painting was brought to your editor's attention in 1974 by C. G. Rice of Boston, who believes the ship was named for his grandfather by ancestors who had sailing vessels engaged in the merchant trade during the period of such ships as that shown in the painting. He wanted help locating the painting.
Can any reader update us on any of this?
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Sons of the American Revolution |
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INTRODUCTION
The most popular lineage society among Americans is the Mayflower Society. Next are the several societies--such as the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and SAR (Sons of th American Revolution)--for descendants of Revolutionary War soldiers. Lines of descent are fewer generations and usually easier to document than the Mayflower lines. There are, however, several other lineage societies and some of them are considered quite elite. Some of them are listed in the next story and the links given in it.
The following SAR lineage application was submitted to your editor's files by Gregory Rice. The application does not itself, however, tell the entire story. Accompanying such applications is the necessary documentation for the names mentioned on it. This often consists of such records as birth, marriage and death certificates, census listings, wills and other records.
In this case, access to already existing DAR and SAR applications made the job easier.
This descent from soldier Jeduthan Rice of Massachusetts starts with a current generation living in California and works back in time through ancestors who lived in South Dakota and Iowa to reach the east coast ancestors in Massachusetts.
For purposes of this application it is not necessary to know Jeduthan's ancestry further back. He is, however, a descendant of Edmund-1 Rice who came to America in 1638 and settled at Sudbury, MA. The line is: Jeduthan-6 (Ephraim-5, Gershom-4, Ephraim-3, Thomas-2, Edmund-1). Jeduthan married 1) Lucinda Merchant and 2) Anna Call. He had children Alpheus, Orange and Esther to his first wife and children Lucinda, Amos, Rufus, Martin, Asa and Simeon to his second wife.
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NOTE
Readers who are interested in proving lines of descent from Revolutionary War soldiers will find a list of more than 500 Rice Revolutionary War soldiers in Rice Book 1. The list has wives for many of them, indicates ones for whom DAR lineages have been approved, and notes for which ones pension application forms can be located in the National Archives.
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GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES
Benefits of Joining Lineage Societies
Lineage Societies are an interesting combination of what's fun and what's serious when it come to genealogy.
If you know your ancestor was a colonial preacher or innkeeper and would like to know more about his family or about other colonial innkeepers or ministers, this is one way to find out.
If nobody among your family and friends understands your passion for genealogy, join a lineage society and find friends who share your passion.
If you come from a long line of maternal descendants of a certain surname and need to find a male of that family to take a DNA test, join a lineage society that would likely have other descendants of this ancestor among their members.
IF you are insistent upon step-by-step documentation of your ancestral lines, joining a lineage society will reinforce those values and make you come to appreciate them.
Some of these lineage societies are sitting upon treasure troves of genealogical data. That's the lineage forms collected decade after decade. Some societies have published lineages of members in book form. Belonging to these societies also will preserve your lineage and just may be what a future descendant will be looking for 200 years from now.
Here are titles of just a few lineage societies. Information on how to join is given in one of the linked articles that follow the list.
Society of Mayflower Descendants
Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
General Society of Colonial Wars
Order of the Founders and Patriots of America
St. Andrew's Society (for men of Scottish descent)
St. David's Society (for men of Welsh descent)
Daughters of American Colonists
Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
Flagon and Trencher (for descendants of colonial tavern & inn keepers)
Huguenot Society
Jamestowne Society
Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians
Society of Descendants of Colonial Clergy
Descendants of Early Quakers
Here are links for articles your editor has written about lineage societies. Yes, the first one is absolutely for real!
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Indiana State Library Genealogy Database:
Rice Family Marriages Through 1850
PART 3
This Index to Indiana Marriages Through 1850 includes all dates through 1850 for counties where marriage records existed. There are approximately 330,000 records. They include entries from numerous Quaker monthly meetings in Indiana and listings from St. Francis Xavier 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.
The first two installments of this list were in The Rice Ezine, Vol. 2, Numbers 3 & 4.
LAST NAME, FIRST NAME / SPOUSE: LAST NAME, FIRST NAME / COUNTY / DATE
RICE NANCY WELLS CHARLES Clinton 5-9-1850
RICE NANCY M HOWES JOHN E Cass 9-28-1843
RICE NATHAN SILLS NANCY Blackford 2-24-1848
RICE OLIVE CLARK ROBERT Wells 2-20-1845
RICE PATSY LEMON DANIEL Warrick 6-6-1825
RICE PERLINE PHILLIPS ABRAHAM Warrick 8-19-1841
RICE PETER GOODEY ANGELINE Ripley 10-25-1850
RICE PETER B UNGER LOUISA Carroll 10-19-1848
RICE POLLY BATES SAMUEL Harrison 3-3-1816
RICE POLLY PHAR VICISSIMUS K Vanderburgh 12-4-1820
RICE POLLY E JOHNSON WILLIAM R Allen 7-4-1841
RICE PRUDENCE ARMSTRONG JOHN Wells 6-3-1851
RICE RANDOLPH WRINDE DOLMA Putnam 5-11-1840
RICE REBECCA DAVIS ANDREW B Montgomery 9-20-1849
RICE REBECCA GODFREY JAMES Washington 1-16-1840
RICE REBECKAH MARIS JOHN Spencer 7-27-1826
RICE REUBEN VEST SARAH Scott 3-1-1837
RICE RICHARD R ROW HANNAH Dekalb 5-17-1853
RICE ROBERT M GALEY MARY M Montgomery 4-15-1836
RICE ROENA ENSMINGER WILLIAM R Shelby 6-16-1836
RICE ROLAND MAXWELL ELIZABETH Putnam 1-6-1836
RICE ROSE LOGAN PATRICK F Vigo 9-22-1845
RICE RUFUS FERRIS SARAH Ripley 1-9-1847
RICE SALLY DIBBLE CHESTER La Porte 7-1-1849
RICE SALLY ANN GORDON JAMES Jennings 5-19-1850
RICE SAMANTHA DAVIDSON JEREMIAH Bartholomew 2-1-1835
RICE SAMUEL HULSE POLLY Bartholomew 6-25-1843
RICE SAMUEL LANDERS AMY Knox 4-15-1811
RICE SARAH HUBBARD DAVID Jackson 2-16-1831
RICE SARAH PILGRAM WILLIAM Harrison 12-23-1824
RICE SARAH ANN CENTERS ELISHA W Vermillion 12-9-1832
RICE SARAH D GREEN JOHN K Adams 2-14-1850
RICE SARAH F COLE JAMES Ripley 11-4-1837
RICE SARAH J SWAFFORD JAMES Union 9-26-1847
RICE SARAH M HOLLENBACK JOHN C Madison 1-28-1857
RICE SELINA FITZGERALD THOMAS Jennings 2-16-1829
RICE STEPHEN CONDRA RHODA Jefferson 12-20-1821
RICE SUSAN ARMSTRONG JAMES Boone 4-19-1838
RICE SUSANAH ROBERTS G M Crawford 6-7-1845
RICE SUSANNA P WALLACE ANGUS R Owen 12-10-1840
RICE SUSANNAH SCALES JACOB Warrick 7-29-1838
RICE SYLVA DAVIS BENJAMIN S Jefferson 2-1-1838
RICE SYLVESTER CLINES MARY Jefferson 1-13-1845
RICE THIRZA TERRY JOHN S Vanderburgh 3-20-1836
RICE THOMAS MANN SARAH Marion 6-4-1840
RICE THOMAS J HULL REBECCA Warrick 3-24-1842
RICE THOMAS PARKER ELIZABETH L Spencer 11-5-1849
RICE THOMAS S WARMAN HANNAH Ripley 2-11-1850
RICE TILFORD ISOM MAY Monroe 11-27-1839
RICE UNION RICHARDSON PEGGY Warrick 5-6-1836
RICE URIAS SPERRY HENRIETTA Lake 10-9-1841
RICE W HENRY ORTT BARBARA Carroll 10-18-1847
RICE WARDER COONS ELIZABETH J Montgomery 8-21-1849
RICE WASHINGTON DEER PAMELA Montgomery 9-10-1839
RICE WESLEY W BAKER ELIZABETH Scott 1-18-1849
RICE WESLEY W COOPERIDER HARRIET Jefferson 1-22-1846
RICE WILLIAM BAKER LOUISIANA Washington 12-1-1839
RICE WILLIAM COCKRUM ANNA Posey 9-5-1838
RICE WILLIAM CRANDALL MALINDA Ripley 9-12-1833
RICE WILLIAM CULVER ELIZABETH Shelby 2-11-1844
RICE WILLIAM JONES HARRIET N Whitley 7-4-1839
RICE WILLIAM MOOR JANE Pike 7-26-1838
RICE WILLIAM NEWELL MARGARET Tippecanoe 2-13-1850
RICE WILLIAM SADDLER JANE Decatur 12-20-1827
RICE WILLIAM STANTON CATHARINE Montgomery 8-21-1834
RICE WILLIAM STILLWELL ANN Jennings 12-22-1822
RICE WILLIAM WILLIAMS HARRIET Elkhart 10-7-1841
RICE WILLIAM A MC LUSH ELIZABETH Harrison 2-23-1847
RICE WILLIAM H JACK FRANCES E Washington 10-25-1846
RICE WILLIAM H DEMAREE JANE C Parke 2-8-1838
RICE WILLIAM H JACKSON ISABELLE J Montgomery 10-1-1849
RICE WILLIAM M STEPHENS MARY Fountain 10-13-1836
RICE WILLIAM P RABBIT FRANCES Allen 3-30-1843
RICE WILLIAM R NEWMAN MARY ANN Montgomery 7-6-1831
RICE WILLIAM S ST CLAIR MARY La Porte 10-2-1834
RICE WM LEMASTER LUCY Scott 8-17-1825
RICE/REISS ADELINE GRASS ANTHONY Spencer 8-12-1850
RICE/RYSE LUCINDA KING JAMES Rush 11-18-1847
RICELY CAROLINE CASSELMAN MATHIAS Dekalb 3-5-1857
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OUR NEXT ISSUE
Coming up is a follow-up to our DNA/Query edition. No, not more of the same. It was a success and reader mail about it is still coming in.
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Draw the Family Circle Wide, Then Draw It Wider Still
Share both the fruits of your genealogical labors
and the puzzling problems you encounter
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FIRST THREE VOLUMES AVAILABLE:
The Rice Book Project
BOOK 1: Celebrating Our Diversity
Biographies of dozens of Rice family members from different backgrounds, different decades and different branches of the family; also a directory of Rice Revolutionary War soldiers; 248 pages
BOOK 2: The Immigrants
Lists of immigrants for three centuries; early generations of the Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut branches of the family; chapters on English, Irish, Scottish and German Rice families; 258 pages.
BOOK 3: Connecticut & Tennessee Rice Lineages
This covers several branches of the Rice family and chronicles in detail descendants of Henry Rice, the pioneer gristmiller in Tennessee; 512 pages.
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BOOK 4: Pennsylvania and Maryland Rice Lineages
This is the book we are now working on.
Order books from the Rice Book Project Website.
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