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Your Rice Family E~Zine
Generation by Generation ~ Century by Century
TWICE MONTHLY VOL. 2, NO. 10 May 29, 2009
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IN THIS ISSUE
The Rice Family of Weymouth, Massachusetts
For Root Diggers
and Branch Climbers:
Marriage
and
Pinching Pennies
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Emerson on History
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A Case of Family
"Missing in Action"
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Collecting Relatives
Southern Family Trees:
Shadrach Rice
of South Carolina
and Tennessee
Ellen Rice's Journal
Gives Us
a Sad Story
Rice Cemetery Inscriptions
from
Fairfield, NY
NETWORKING:
New Readers
&
a Query
Rices Listed in
Arkansas
Poll Tax Records
FOLLOW UP:
One of Those
Rice Doctors
from Kentucky
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Quick Links
for Curious
Rice Ancestor
BOOK ONE INDEX
RICE EMAIL LISTS
(Check all spellings)
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REECE/REESE
DNA PROJECT
WEBSITE OF JOHN FOX
(Desc. of Thomas & Marcy Rice of Virginia)
(Send links to your genealogy pages;
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1) If you are not a male bearing the Rice surname, find a relative who is and have a DNA test done.
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The Rice Family in
Weymouth, Massachusetts
OLD POSTCARD SHOWS THE BEACHFRONT AT WEYMOUTH, THE SECOND TOWN FOUNDED IN MASSACHUSETTS
The first settlement at Weymouth, known as Wessagusset, was an ill-planned 1622 commercial venture that failed.
During the next few years the small settlement almost disappeared, but new arrivals from England helped to keep it alive. The tiny settlement got its new start the summer of 1635 when the Rev. Joseph Hull and 21 families arrived from Weymouth, England. The General Court gave them permission to settle in Wessagusset. On September 2, 1635 Wessagusset was incorporated as a town and the name was changed to Weymouth.
SEPARATE BRANCH OF RICE FAMILY
We don't know when the Rices came to Weymouth, or whether they came directly from Great Britain, or by way of Boston or some other place in New England. DNA testing has put these Rices in a separate group from all the other known New England branches of the Rice family. William Marsh Rice, whose financing made possible the establishment of Rice University, is believed to belong to this branch of the family.
THE OLD RICE TAVERN
Whatever their origin, the Rices do appear in Weymouth during the Revolutionary War era. One of present Weymouth's historical landmarks is the old Rice tavern.
The former tavern is located on the west side of Broad Street in Jackson Square, East Weymouth, and has more recently been known as the Mortimer N. Peck Funeral Chapel.
In the late 1700s, the building was a well-known tavern on the old Boston-Plymouth road. An old Boston Almanac listed the tavern under "Places of Entertainment", a category under which taverns and inns were listed in various periodicals published in the latter part of the 1700s.
RICE TAVERN IN WEYMOUTH
The "innkeeper" was Josiah Rice. Local folklore has it that Indians occasionally stopped at Rice's tavern for food and lodging, which was given, but seldom paid for.
The following is an excerpt from Old Paths and Legends of New England:
The colonial tavern was in high repute and often within a stone's throw of the church. Rice's Tavern was known for the hospitality of mine host and hostess. On a never-to-be forgotten occasion, Josiah Rice drove in his chaise to Cambridge to attend Harvard Commencement. His costume of cinnamon broadcloth, small clothes with large pearl buttons, and silver buckles of the latest mode, was covered above reproach. It is doubtful if John Hancock himself, in purple velvet coat and flowered waistcoat, was thought to be more bravely arrayed.
The remark about how Rice was dressed refers to the days just prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. The more patriotic settlers had stopped buying not only tea, but other items--such as lavish clothing--from England. Josiah's clothes would have been made of homespun fabric, probably made
THE WEYMOUTH RICES
Not much is known about the Weymouth Rices. In more than 35 years of corresponding with literally hundreds of Rice descendants, your editor cannot recall having been in contract with any descendants of these Weymouth Rices.
The 1790 census lists Josiah, John and David Rice. The Weymouth marriage records and indicate there were at least two generations of Josiah Rices and perhaps a third.
Josiah Rice, the innkeeper, appears to be the Josiah who wed Mary Torrey at Weymouth Dec. 10, 1778. Mary had Adams family ancestry on her mother's side. That may help solve an important Rice-Adams alliance discussed below.
Josiah, the innkeeper was still alive when the 1800 census was taken. He may be a son of the David Rice and Silence Walker who were married in 1753 at Weymouth.
A man named as "Josiah Rice Jr." wed Mary Bates in Weymouth in 1809. Another entry in the Weymouth records is the 1833 marriage of Josiah E. Rice and Abby Ann Bates. Was this a later marriage for Josiah Jr., or is this a third generation Josiah?
There are three more Bates-Rice marriages in the Weymouth records:
~ Benjamin Bates and Elizabeth Rice in 1807
~ Levi Bates of Boston ;and Lucinda Rice4 in 1810.
~ Levi Bates and Abigail Rice, 1816.
The mystery man here is the David Rice who married Silence Walker. Where did he come from? Was he among the Hingham famililes that moved to Weymouth at an early date, or did his ancestors come with Rev. Joseph Hull from Weymouth, England?
ADAMS-RICE FAMILY ALLIANCE
It has been stated for decades that Abigail (Smith) Adams, wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams, has Rice ancestry.
Traditionally, that ancestry was believed to be  through Edmund-1 Rice of Sudbury, MA, by way of his son Henry and the latter's daughter, Abigail Rice, who was born in 1657 and married Thomas Smith. This connection was never fully documented and the Edmund Rice Association does not, understandably, give it credence. (Your editor was, unfortunately, one who believed and perpetuated the apparently erroneous claim.)
Abigail Smith's family was a prominent one. Her father, William Smith, was a Harvard graduate who came from a long line of ship captains and well-to-do merchants. Her mother, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Col. John Quincy and kin to the Norton, Sheppard and Winthrop families.
Abigail (Smith) Adams is probably Weymouth's most famous resident. When we picture Josiah Rice, the Weymouth innkeeper, riding off to the Harvard graduation, isn't it more probable that if Abigail had Rice ancestry it would be via these Weymouth Rices who, like her family, seemed to value education and had a different sort of prominence than the contemporary Edmund Rice descendants, who were primarily farm owners pushing westward to settle on new frontiers?
ABIGAIL ADAMS BIRTHPLACE
WEYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS
For more information on the history of Weymouth,
see these articles:
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FOR FELLOW ROOT DIGGERS & BRANCH CLIMBERS
MARRIAGE AND PINCHING PENNIES
On marriage certificates the same address in a town is often given for both parties. This may not mean they were living together, or even both living in the town mentioned. Declaring the same address avoided paying for two sets of banns to be published or announced in different parishes.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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I researched my family tree . . . and apparently I don't exist!
(The above reminds me of a true story. All at once, I couldn't get credit. I finally wrote the biggest credit check clearing house to find out why. The answer? They said I had died two years before! Then I remembered. As part of probating my mother's estate I had written this same agency to tell them that a debit they were listing on my account belonged to my mother's account and had been paid. I sent them copies of everything, including HER death certificate. I still don't know how they got so confused. Her name was Beatrice and mine is Rosemary. I decided to stay "dead" and didn't report their error to them. The result? I hardly get any junk mail anymore...so now you know who sells your name and contact info to company marketing lists.)
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SOUTHERN FAMILY TREES
Shadrach Rice of
South Carolina and Tennessee?
While looking at the index to Revolutionary War pension applications on file at the National Archives in Washington, your editor spied the following entry:
Shadrack Rice, not Rev. O.W. Inv. File 25398. Wayne's War 1792, Wt. 9698-160-55.
This must mean that although Shadrack apparently didn't serve in the Revolutionary War, he was entitled to bounty land because of his later service in Wayne's War.
Data on him appears in the "Old Wars" files at the National Archives and interested researchers can obtain copies of it by furnishing the above-cited number.
Wayne's War? Well, it was named for General "mad" Anthony Wayne and was among a series of post Revolutionary War repercussions which took place as the newly established nation tried to evolve ways of settling both internal problems and border disputes with its Canadian neighbors.
QUESTION:
Does anyone know if this is the same Shadrach Rice from South Carolina who moved to Lauderdale Co., Tennessee?
CONFLICTING EVIDENCE ON PARENTS:
Your editor has two conflicting references to one Shadrach Rice:
~ The Dec. 6, 1734 will of William Rice names wife, Elizabeth, and sons David, William, Shadrach and Micajah. (SOURCE: William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 21, page 56)
~ Feb., 1734 (deed) John Rice to David Rice, William Rice, Shadrach Rice and Micajah Rice. (SOURCE: Same William & Mary Quarterly reference as above?) Also have the same info from a 1960 letter to Arthur Hopkins Rice from someone (he didn't say who) in Edenton, NC. This reference says the land was in Hanover Co., VA, and that John was the father of David, William, Shadrach and Micajah.
Can anyone shed light on this? Can any reader re-check the William and Mary Quarterly references? Was the father of these four brothers William or John Rice?
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A Sister's Obliging Nature Ends in a Sad Story
Tucked away in the archives of the University of Michigan is a journal that reveals a sad story. Ellen Rice (1830-1850) worked in the Boston home of her married sister, Mary, who apparently was sick much of the time...so sick that sister Susan also often came to help out.
The journal is 128 pages in two volumes. It was written in 1848 and 1849.
The three sisters descend from Edmund-1 Rice. These women--Ellen, Susan and Mary--are daughters of Calvin Rice (b. 1796) and Mary Perry Drury (b. 1798), who lived at Wayland, Massachusetts.
Mary (b. 1822) seems to be the oldest child. She married William Stowe (1816-1892). The Stowe children were: William (b. 1839), Mary Lizzie (b. 1840), Eugenia (b. 1843), Ellen Grace (b. 1847) and Susan Georgianna (b. 1849).
Ellen Rice's 1848-1849 journal contains the daily thoughts of a deeply religious woman devoted to her sisters and family. It appears that this devotion made her an unpaid servant in her sister's household. This story has a very sad ending.
The intelligent, articulate Ellen Rice wrote in her journal every evening, recording far more than the day's events. Although she did note newsworthy items at the local and national level, she rarely gives the reader much of a clue as to what she had been doing all day long. The brief moments when she allowed herself to complain about her situation make it clear she worked long days attending to the needs of her nieces and nephews, and that she was responsible for most of the family's sewing. She chose not to dwell on drudgery. Instead, she celebrated her love of God, of Nature, and of her relatives, particularly her sister Susan.
Ellen felt close to God when she was close to Nature. In springtime, living in Boston made her "feel confined in a cage and long to soar away to my native element and live in the temple of Nature" (1:32). She believed that "no one can cultivate and watch the growth of Flowers, without feeling their hearts expand and fill with thoughts of God which exerts a beneficial influence upon the character. One ray of religious love sheds a light upon the character which no sunbeam can outshine" (2:11).
She was occasionally critical of the preachers who did not deliver the word of God as purely as nature did. After one sermon, she accused the preacher of not having a "deep mind," and she chastised another for using "coarse and common" comparisons and expressions, even though his ideas were good (2:21, 1:53).
Ellen continuously returned to the concept of nature as a sublime channel to God: "What pent up feelings it awakens to roam again o'er the hills among the trees, rocks and flowers. I look upon these as not merely inanimate objects, for there seems to be a connecting link between them and our spirits, a something which awakens all the fine feelings and emotions of the heart and makes us keenly sensitive to the wisdom and goodness of God and his love and mercy to us" (1:46).
In addition to connecting spiritually with God through nature, she was attuned to spiritual connections with people, through their letters. When reading "line after line traced by the loved one's hand, the image rises before me and I hear the spirit breathing the words I read" (1:17).
She felt divided between her home with Mary and her home with her parents, but there was one steady attraction that always made her old home in Wayland more appealing -- her sister Susan lived there. "My heart whose every chord vibrates to her own, yearns to be near her and enjoy the happiness which true sisterly love only can know," she frequently declared (2:3). After expressing her excitement that Susan would soon visit her, she added, "surely it is natural that I should rejoice at the thought of meeting a Sister whose love is pure and strong and in whom I find an echo for every thought and wish" (2:39).
Tension arose when her brother-in-law refused to let her go visit Susan, even though she could easily have been spared from his house for a few days: "I think he cares but little for me or my feelings, but I will not entertain unkind feelings towards him for Mary's sake" (1:38). Even though her relationship with William was cool, she resolved that if her sister died, she would willingly "give up all my youthful hopes and pleasures and devote my life to them, for I love them too well ever to trust them to the care of another" (1:30).
There were men in her life, or wanting to be in it, but she did not really respond to them. She visited and corresponded with Jared, and initially argued that men and women ought to be able to have as close friendships as women were allowed to have. "I know it is not customary but that does not prove that it is wrong," she wrote, and insisted that she "can see no reason why those of different sex cannot be friends as well as those of the same" (1:20). A few weeks later, however, she decided to break off the correspondence "for several reasons," but her true feelings for him remained obscured.
After the family moved to Lexington, Mr. Thayer, a traveling daguerreotypist, fell for her, and startled her with his frank declarations. She told him she did not feel she could be any more than a "common acquaintance" of his, although she was "extremely sorry to disappoint his anticipations" (2:22). to them He eventually left town, after urging her to reconsider, and presenting her with her likeness in a beautiful case. The third suitor, Mr. Gammell, announced that he wanted her for his "chosen companion," but she remained unmoved (2:49). The cares of her sister's household overwhelmed her, and soon after she completely succumbed to them.
Ellen's sister Mary had married William on December 15, 1845, and they had several children, including a couple who were probably from William's previous marriage. Although Mary had a house girl, she desperately needed help, particularly with the sewing and caring for the children.
When Mary was confined or very ill, as she was twice in 1849, their sister Susan would have to come lend a hand as well. This always made the time pass more easily for Ellen, for she loved her sister Susan dearly. When she could, Ellen visited her parents' home in Wayland, where Susan lived, but William and Mary could rarely spare her. When she did return to Wayland, she typically had at least one niece in tow.
In March of 1849, Mary gave birth to a daughter, and Ellen rather opaquely noted, "we should have preferred a boy, still I know it will be for the best some way, that it is not" (1:25). The child was not named until September. In May, the Boston house the family had been living in was auctioned off for $2,500.00. They moved out to East Lexington, where Ellen enjoyed listening to their German neighbors singing on Saturday nights. Ellen was thrilled to be back in the country, for she equated proximity to nature with proximity to God
As an exceedingly religious and spiritual young woman, Ellen's special pleasures were being outside and teaching Sabbath school, which she did until Mary's second illness began, in October. Ellen was then held hostage to the sickbed, with the baby constantly in her arms, and all the chores to attend to. She was unable to get out in the fresh air she loved so well, and believed she needed to preserve her own health.
Susan came to help, but she caught the fever from Mary, and returned to their parents' home in Wayland, where she eventually recovered. Mary also improved, slowly, but not before the fragile health of her nursemaid was thoroughly broken.
According to a brief note at the end of her journal, Ellen died on January 16, 1850. (The Lexington, Mass., Vital Records list Ellen as having died on January 16, 1850 at age 19.)
Though Ellen Rice's name is not mentioned in the journal itself, a number of details about her life and her family are known, and it is possible through outside sources to identify her and her family.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Do we have any reader near Ann Arbor, Michigan, who could photocopy this journal for me? ~ Rosemary
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RICE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS FROM FAIRFIELD, NEW YORK
The following inscriptions are from a cemetery located at Route 29 and Platform Road in Fairfield, NY. They were forwarded to your editor in 1978 by Edgar Batchelder of Pleasant Ridge, Michigan.
THOMAS A. RICE (1797-1880) died Jan. 19, 1880.
VIENNA G. RICE (1804-1884), wife of Thomas A. Rice, died Aug. 10, 1884
A. CLARK RICE (1840-1863) was a Civil War soldier who was a lieutenant in the 121th Regiment of New York Volunteers. He died during the war on Sept. 19, 1863, at Georgetown, D.C.
MARY O. RICE (1829-1858), wife of Simeon Osborn, died Dec. 27, 1858 at Owatanna, Minnesota.
The following are from four separate stones that were side by side:
EDWARD C. RICE (1871--1939), Spanish War, Quartermaster Sgt., 4th Battalion, NY
ALLIE M. RICE, his wife (1881-1950)
CLARENCE W. RICE (1873-1952), Pvt., Co. E, 1st NY Volunteer Infantry, Spanish American
War
JESSIE L. RICE (1871-1942); she is probably the wife of Clarence Rice
These inscriptions are all on one stone:
INGHAM C. RICE (1852-1904) IDA C. RICE, his wife (1856-1926)
EDWARD C. RICE, Atty. (1871-1939)
ELEAZER C. RICE (1827-1895) SARAH A. INGHAM (1831-1891), his wife
Small stone next to large one above:
E. C. R. Junior (1856-1857), son of E. C. and S. A. Rice
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~ Networking ~
NEW READERS
Patricia Duke from California has been researching her ancestry for 50 years. (Careful, Pat, you are giving your age away!). Her earliest known ancestor is Martin Rice of Missouri.
EDITOR'S NOTE: If, Pat, this is any of the Martin Rices listed below, RICE BOOK 3 has more than 200 pages on this branch of the Rice family.
~ Martin Rice of Lone Jack, MO, who m. Ethel Rutherford
~ Martin Z. Rice (b. 1899, Lost Creek, Union Co., TN)
~ Martin Rice, Confederate soldier during the Civil War
~ Martin Rice of Claiborne Co., TN, who, in 1800, deeded land in Claiborne Co., TN, to Donelson Stoekley, in 1805 deeded Tennessee land to David Gibbs, and in 1829 deeded Tennessee land to Joseph Campbell.
~ Martin Rice who married Barbara Tillman in 1799 in Knox Co., TN
~ Martin Rice (1814-1903) who married Mary Lynch and moved with his parents from Big Valley, TN to Jackson Co., TN.
Martin Rice, son of Samuel Rice and grandson of John Rice (b. 1826) of Tennessee
~ Martin Rice, War of 1812 soldier from Tennesee
(And, there are more. It is primarily the Tennessee Rices who moved to Missouri.)
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Jennie Lee Cabler lists her earliest known Rice ancestor as Spencer Rice. She has been rsearching her family for more than 15 years. This is some of her information:
I have been told that he is on the Montgomery County, VA, 1782-87, tax rolls;
was in Tennessee by 1788. He had a Land Grant from the state of North Carolina in the area of what is now Greene/Cocke Counties.
He is thought to have the following 7 sons:
Laban RICE, b. 1785, VA; d. 1853, Burleson Co., TX; m. Elizabeth Bayles abt 1809.
Othniel RICE, b. at 1796, NC; d. 14 Feb 1884; m. Mary Moody 1842.
Joseph RICE, b. 5 Nov 1797, Cocke Co., TN; d. 12 Feb 1883, New Market, Madison Co., AL; m. Johanna Bayles, 5 Feb 1818, Madison Co., AL. Joseph was a War of 1812 Veteran and Justice of the Peace, Madison Co., AL (for abt 50 yrs); Postmaster; Farmer.
Levi Melvin RICE, b. abt 1802, NC; d. 14 Mar 1881, Sevier Co., AR; m. Elizaeth Collom, 29 Jan 1829, Lafayette, AR Territory.
George C. RICE, b. at 1807, NC; d. ?; m. Mary; m. Hannah Clark, Giles Co., TN.
William RICE, b. ?; d. ?; m. Sarah Malloy, 1809, Madison Co., AL.
Aaron RICE, b. ?; d. bet 1861-1865; m 1. Karenhappuck BAYLES, abt 1804; m. 2) Rebecca Lewis, Oct 1826, Madison Co., AL.
Some researchers think he may have had another son named Iswall RICE, b. abt 1783.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We have recently had discussion of this Spencer Rice in our E~Zine. Check the archives (see left column) to read that information.
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Kathy Lock has been researching her family for about 15 years and has hit a dead-end with ancestor John Rice (1646-1731) of Virginia.
(Kathy: Give us a location and the wife's name and we will try to locate him in the files, which contain more than 200 John Rices.)
I need information on Reuben Rice who married Polly Jones in 1796 at Northfield, Vermont. They had a son also named Reuben Rice. This marriage lasted only about two years. I don't know if Reuben died or there was a divorce. I wonder if Reuben who married Polly is the same one who was among the founders of Halifax, MA.? Can anyone help?
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Arkansas Poll Tax Records
IZARD COUNTY
1839: Rise, Matthias. poll tax
1841: Rice, Mathias, poll, 2 horses, 4 cattle
1844: Rice, E. L., poll, livestock
1845: Rice, Elias, poll
1846: Rice, E. L., poll
FULTON COUNTY (Created from a portion of Izard County in 1842)
1849: Rice, Frethias*, poll, livestock (and same entries for him for 1850, 1851 & 1852)
1853, Rice, Frethias, poll, livestock, 80 acres of land
1859, Rice, Thomas, poll, livestock
* Is Frethias really a given name for this man, or is it a wrong spelling of the Mathias and Elias who lived there?
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ONE OF THOSE RICE DOCTORS FROM KENTUCKY
Our April 24 issue (Vol. 2, No. 8) listed doctors who graduated from medical school in Kentucky. We have a follow-up on one of them, provided by a reader who cautions against everything given in those old biographical sketches. Good advice! (We are sharing this info, but be advised of the cautionary notes!) The following is from reader Charles Rice.
Physician Edward N. Rice of Webster County, Kentucky
The Edward N. Rice on your list of doctors was Edward Nathaniel Rice (Jan 24, 1867-June 26, 1948), a first cousin of my great-grandfather. Edward N. Rice was a son of Josiah Nichols Rice and Elizabeth C. Givens, and was born and died in Webster County, KY.
Josiah's older brothers all served in the Confederate Army, and one died during the war. I've heard that all four brothers were in the army, but I've never found a record for Josiah.
I have the family line back to Edward N. Rice's great-great-grandfather, William Rice (c. 1721-1762) of Chowan and Bertie Counties, NC - but then I'm stuck. William appears first in the records as "William Rice Jr", so he may be a son of an older William Rice who appears in Chowan Co. My William had a brother John who mentions William's sons and another brother named David in his will. The family is obviously of 17th century Virginia origin, but I haven't been able to put all the pieces together yet.
I'm attaching a biography of Dr Edward N. Rice. My great-grandfather bought his house in Lisman, when Dr Rice moved to Providence. Whoever did this "vanity biography" got Josiah Rice's name as Joseph, which is common since he was called Joe. However, he appears as Josiah in his father's bible. Edward Rice's father, James Rice, also was NOT born in Ireland. It's the Givens side of the family that is Scots-Irish! The Rices moved to Kentucky in 1820 and weren't fighting any Indians. Once again, that was the Givens side of the family. Edward Rice was born in 1798, not 1794; his wife was born in 1810, not 1799. Be very wary of these old biographies! Note: This bio is full of mistakes!!! ~ Charles Rice
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Edward Nathaniel Rice, M.D., of Providence, is one of the best known and most highly respected physicians and surgeons of Webster County, and is a man who deserves the prosperity to which he has attained. He was born on a farm in Webster County January 24, 1867, a son of Joseph N. and Elizabeth K. (Givens) Rice, both of whom were born in Hopkins County.
The grandfather, Edward Rice, was born in North Carolina, and his father was a native of Ireland. Edward Rice married Macy Nichols in North Carolina, and they then came to Kentucky, making the trip on horseback and carrying their few effects with them, and on account of danger from Indians he kept his rifle in his hands. He was born in 1794 and she in 1799, and he lived to be seventy-eight years of age and she to be seventy-four. They settled in what was then Hopkins County but is now Webster County, and there resided for many years. The maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Givens, was born in Hopkins County, of Virginia stock.
Joseph N. Rice was a farmer who died in 1908, aged seventy-three years, but his wife died in 1893, when fifty-two years old. In religious faith they were Cumberland Presbyterians. Their living children are as follows: Macy, Jennie, Mary K., Edward N. and Katie, and all were reared on their father's farm. One child, Frances Marion, died, aged five years.
Doctor Rice attended the rural schools and the Male and Female Academy at Providence, and then was engaged in teaching school for one term. He next turned his attention to farming, and at the same time studied medicine and was graduated from the University of Louisville, March 13, 1893.
Following his graduation Doctor Rice began the practice of his profession at Lisman, Kentucky, and remained there until 1908, when he moved to Providence, forming a partnership with Dr. J. T. Dixon, which continued for two years, and was then dissolved and Doctor Rice practiced alone until July, 1920, when on account of ill health he was obliged to share his duties.
He is a member of the Webster County Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society and the Mississippi Valley Medical Society. He has made a specialty of coal mining companies' practice, and is local surgeon for the Louisville & Nashville and Illinois Central Railroads. In addition he has a wide outside practice. Fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias and an Odd Fellow. The Presbyterian Church holds his membership.
Very active as a Democrat, he has long been a leader in local affairs but would never accept office.
In 1888 Doctor Rice was married to Miss Nettie Baker, a daughter of I. N. Baker, of Webster County. Doctor and Mrs. Rice have two children, namely: Elizabeth Karrie, who is the wife of Lou S. Jefferson, of Morganfield, Kentucky; and T. G., who is engaged in the coal business at Princeton, Kentucky.
He (T. G.) volunteered for service in April, 1917, immediately after being graduated from the University of Kentucky, and was sent to the Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. He was commissioned a second lieutenant at Newport News, and stationed in Rhode Island and at other points. Going overseas, he reached France October 12, 1918, in the meanwhile having been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and was mustered out of the service and discharged in February, 1919, after which he returned home.
Had his health permitted Doctor Rice would have gone into the service, but as it was he had to content himself with having his family represented by his brave young, and only son. A man of high courage and public spirit, Doctor Rice has borne a leading part in the progress of Providence since locating in this city, and is recognized as one of its most dependable and worth-while citizens.
(Transcribed by Bill Cook from "History of Kentucky", Judge Charles Kerr, Editor, by William Elsey Connelley and E.M. Coulter Ph.D. in five volumes. Published by the American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1922. Vol. III, p. 124)
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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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