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Your Rice Family E~Zine
Generation by Generation ~ Century by Century
TWICE MONTHLY VOL. 2, NO. 11 JUNE 15, 2009
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Shown here are students at the Rice Community School, later known as the Eagle Bend School. The school was located on the Rice ranch near Dundee, Oklahoma. This picture was submitted by reader Bonnie Gray. She invites anyone who has information on the picture, anything about this community, or is a member of this branch of the Rice family, to share. Lindsey Rice, who lived there, is Bonnie's granduncle and a son of John Newton Rice (born 1866, Louisiana) and grandson of Jonathan W. Rice and Doratha/Dorothy Ann Adams Edwards. Lindsey is listed in the 1930 census as 23, living at Earl, Jefferson Co., OK, with his father, John N. Rice, 64, and mother, Josie Rice, 54, Louis Rice, 30, James Rice, 25, and three young grandchildren. There is also a 1930 census listing for the G. W. Adams family in Oklahoma City that is of interest. It is for the family of G. W. Adams, 50, and his wife, Alie, also 50. The household includes Sarah Jane Rice, 84, and G. H. Rice, 47. Sarah is listed as mother-in-law and G. H. as brother-in-law. In 1910 the household of John Newton Rice and his wife, Josie, included children Jeff, 14, Bonni. 11. Louis, 10, Willie, 9, Jim, 6, and Lindsey, 4. John Newton Rice says he was born in Louisiana, but that both of his parents were born in Misissippi. Also in this census is a Blackburn Rice, who later had a town named for him. He also lives in the then town of Earl, but is older than John Newton Rice, having also been born in Louisiana, but about 1850. This was tantalizing enough to look for Blackburn as a child and see if he was a brother of John Newton Rice. Your editor couldn't find him in the 1850 or 1870 census, but in 1860, before John Newton Rice was born, he is listed in Williamson County, Texas, with his parents, J. W. Rice, 42, and "Dortha", 30. He was age 10 and had a brother, Philip, age 1. Also living with the family was "Luner Adams", 18. In 1880, Blackburn Rice and his wife Clara were in Texas. No surprise. That was a stopping point on the route from Louisiana to Oklahoma, a territory which had no census in 1880.
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IN THIS ISSUE
The Rice Community School in Oklahoma
William Rice
of Virginia
Settles in Texas
Markers Commemorate Muncey Massacre
For Root Diggers
and Branch Climbers:
A Prayer
for Genealogists
Genealogy
Hide and Seek
Profile:
Samuel Rice Moved
to Canada and Became
a Distinguished
Clergyman
Two Rice Families in Waupaca Co.,
Wisconsin
Southern Family Trees:
Follow-Up on
Shadrach Rice
of South Carolina
and Tennessee
NETWORKING
(1) All Those
Martin Rices
(2) Rices in
Lorain Co., Ohio
(3) William Rice of
North Carolina,
South Carolina and
Newton Co., Georgia
(4) Looking for
Elisha Rice of
Georgia & Alabama
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for Curious
Rice Ancestor
BOOK ONE INDEX
RICE EMAIL LISTS
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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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WERE 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.
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GENEALOGY IS LIKE
PLAYING HIDE
AND SEEK
THEY HIDE
AND I SEEK
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William Rice of Virginia
Settles in Texas in 1843
INTRODUCTION
The email message from "Missy" was brief: "Hi I'm looking for Abigail and William Rice settled in Collin County, Texas 1843". That's it. Below is your editor's response. (This material was received from George Bull in the mid 1970s.)
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Willliam Rice was born in 1801 in Virginia. He moved to Collin County, Texas, in 1843, coming from Benton County, Arkansas. Many early Collin Co. families, including the well-known Throckmorton family, came from the Benton Co. area.
William Rice was among those reported as building a cabin at Old Buckner, the first county seat of Collin Co. This was in February of 1843.
This Rice family came from Virginia via Tennessee, where William probably married Abigail ("Abbygill"), who is thought to have been half Cherokee Indian. She was called Abby and was born in 1807 in South Carolina. (Her birthplace is given as "Indian Territory" on some census records.) Abby died in 1889 and is buried at Clear Lake Cemetery in Collin Co.
William and Abigail lived in eastern Tennessee until about 1837, when they moved to Arkansas. William went to Collin Co. as a "Peter's Colony" settler and, as such, was entitled to 640 acres of land. He settled northwest of McKinney and patented his land early in 1855. He and his neighbors were farmers. (If you punch Peter's Colony into your internet browser, you will find several sites relating to it.)
This William Rice served as a private in the Mexican War, enlisting in Captain Andrew Strapp's Company of Mounted Volunteers (1846). His son, Charles P. Rice, and his nephew, Paschal H. Rice, also enlisted from Collin Co.
In 1850, William Rice bought four lots in the town of McKinney and sold them in 1851 and 1852. He later moved on to the Hardin T. Chenoweth survey, about three miles northeast of McKinney. Also living here were his son, Alexander Rice, and his daughter, Caroline Davis (later Soden).
Here are notes on the 10 children of William and Abby Rice.
1. CHARLES P. RICE, born about 1827, died in 1847. His father was his heir and received payment for his services in the Mexican War. He also patented 320 acres of land in his name. It was located just east of Celina, TX, and William later sold it. Charles never married.
2. JOSEPH K. RICE, born about 1830 and died in 1844. He was scalped by Indians during the Muncey-Jameson massacre on Rowlett Creek, north of Plano, and was buried in a small cemetery on Wilson Creek, west of McKinney. (See item below for more information on the massacre.)
3. JOHN L. RICE, born in 1832 in Tennessee and died ca. 1859; probably never married.
4. MARGARET RICE, born 1834 in Tennessee and died ca. 1850s; probably was not married.
5. ALEXANDER RICE was born in 1837 in Arkansas and in 1857 married Mary Ann Crabtree, who was born in 1839 in Missouri. Alexander died sometime before 1880. Their children:
1) Mary Ellen (b. 1858)
2) Martha Jane (b. 1860) m. Sam McBride in 1878; moved to south Texas.
3) James William (1861-1892) m. in 1887 Rosetta Ault (1867-1945). She later wed J. E. Wilson.
4) John H. (b. 1864)
5) Alice W. (b. 1866) m. L. A. Webb in 1883; moved to Oregon.
6) Thomas Whitaker (1867-1945) m. in 1895 to Nancy Ella Webb (1875-1912); when older, he moved to Oklahoma.
7) David W. (b. 1870) m. in 1901 Mary Elisabeth Wright (Mrs. L. A. Andrews).
8) Lydia A. (b. 1873) m. a Webb and moved to Oregon.
6. E. RICE, a female born in 1839 in Arkansas; died between 1850 and 1860.
7. JULIA ANN RICE, born 1841, Arkansas and died between 1860 and 1870.
8. WILLIAM RICE, born 1843, Arkansas and died in 1865 in New Mexico after being robbed and killed by bandits.
9. MARTHA ELLEN RICE (1846-1926) was born in 1846 near McKinney, TX, and died in 1926 at Nevada, TX. She married in 1865 Peyton Russell Jordan (1839-1918) who was born in Georgia. He was engaged in the cattle business and part of the time lived in Coffeyville, Kansas. Both are buried at Hawley, TX. (Their children, surname Jordan):
1) Julia Ann (1866-1951) m. in 1886 Tinah Haywood Poland (1853-1912); lived at Hawley, TX.
2) May Rella (1869-1949) m. 1892 John Calvin Jones (1859-1943). They lived at Nevada, TX and had ch. George and Myra Jones.
3) William Ludwell (1871-1932) m. in 1899 to Montie Swope (1877-1968); lived at Josephine, TX; had ch. Elsie, Hixie and William.
4) Dudley Everett (1878-1949) m. Cornelia Godfrey; d. Wichita Falls; ch. P. R., Flossie and Melba.
5) Peyton Edward (1882-1968) m. in 1908 to Hattie Pearl Luper (b. 1887), daughter of William Ward and Ida Frances (Briscoe) Luper. Their only son, Fred Hubert, was killed in Japan during WORLD WAR II. Peyton Jordan was quite wealthy and lived at Clovis, New Mexico.
10. CAROLINE WILMINE JOSEPHINE PERUSA RICE
(1848-1922) was born near McKinney and died at Clear Lake, TX. She married 1) in 1870, Thomas Jefferson Davis (1840-1914) and was divorced in 1877; he is shown as a teamster in the 1870 census and once owned a brickyard east of McKinney. She m. 2) in 1877 Phillip James Soden (1841-1909). They were buried at Clear Lake Cemetery.
Children of Caroline Rice and Thomas Jefferson Davis:
1) Julia Ann Davis (1872-1967) m. in 1893 William Greenbury Robbirds (1862-1947). They had 6 ch.: Bessie (m. Allison Crank), Philip (m. 1-Clara Tompkins & 2-Alta Boyd), Willie (m. Roy Gann), Vera (m. James Herrington), Stacy (m. Alton Trammell) & Hixie (m. Aileen Rountree).
2) Sallie Ellen, aka "Nellie" (1875-1945) m. 1898, Walter Price Addington (1875-1957), son of John W. & Martha J. (Price) Addington. Ch: Faye, Grace, Ollie, Opal, Elsie, Delia*, Elmo, Vince & Oleta.
Children of Caroline Rice and Phillip J. Soden:
1) Owen P. (b. 1879); d. in "young manhood".
2) Thomas Phillip (1881-1951) m. 1905 Ida May Preston (1881-1907), daughter of J. K. and Nancy E. Preston; had a daughter, Hester.
3) Katie E. (b. 1884); m. Luther Hayes, 1908; ch. Lilly, Tennie, Eva, Soden, Daisy, Robert, Ruth, Arsie & Maxwell.
4) Martha, known as "Mat" (1887-1928); m. Henry Lee Smith (1887-1917); ch. Faye, Pearl, Luther, Thomas, Anna Mae & Cora Bess.
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* She was the mother of George Bull, who provided this information.
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MARKER COMMEMORATING THE MUNCEY MASSACRE
Teen Joseph K. Rice Scalped by Indians
The Muncey-Jameson Massacre
In 1840 and 1842, Texas pioneers McBain Jameson and Jeremiah Muncey settled in Collin Co. Texas. They were part of the post-Texas Revolution wave of settlers. As was true of much of the West during that era, Texas was a wild and often savage place. While hunting in late 1844, two other local settlers, Leonard Searcy and William Rice, came to the Muncey hut. They found the brutally massacred bodies of Jameson, Muncey, Mrs. Muncey and their small child.
Recognizing these signs of an Indian raid, Searcy and Rice hurriedly left to find their own sons, who were hunting in the area. Searcy's son was safe, but Rice's son Joseph had been scalped. The victims are buried nearby.
Along with the deaths of the Munceys, two other Muncey boys disappeared, presumed stolen, and were never found.
Indians living in Collin County were of the Caddo, Cherokee, Delaware, Kickapoo, and Tonkawa tribes. These tribes were peaceful farming/hunting Indians. A Kiowa chief by the name of Spotted Tail moved his band to the flats between Frisco and Prosper in the mid-1840s. While his band lived in the area, the residents of Collin County were not attacked. Spotted Tail helped bury the dead in a smallpox epidemic in 1873, but he contracted the disease, which resulted in his death. He had asked for a white man's burial and received it. He is buried at Buckner Cemetery in McKinney. The attacking Indians usually came in from the west and were Comanche. Although Indian raids continued well into the late 1800's, and were fought by Texas Rangers, the Muncey Massacre was the last Indian raid in Collin County. The Texas Historical Commission recognized this site with a marker in 1974.
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FOR FELLOW ROOT DIGGERS & BRANCH CLIMBERS
A PRAYER FOR GENEALOGISTS
Lord, help me dig into the past
And shift the sands of time
That I might find the roots that made
This family tree of mine;
Lord, help me trace the ancient roads
On which my fathers trod
And led them through so many lands
To find our present sod.
Lord, help me find an ancient book
Or dusty manuscript
That's safely hidden now away
In some forgotten crypt;
Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts
My soul when I can't find
The missing link between some name
That ends the same as mine.
~ by Curtis Woods, Tennessee author
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PROFILE
Samuel Dwight Rice Moved to Canada
and Became a Distinguished Clergyman
Victoria College, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. Samuel D. Rice was associated with Victoria College and other Methodist-sponsored schools.
Samuel Dwight Rice was born in 1815 at Houlton, Maine to Samuel Rice, a physician, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Putnam. He married, in 1843, Fanny Lavinia Starr of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Their children, all surnamed Rice, were: Sarah Eliza Starr (b. 1845), Edward Pickard (b. 1849), Caroline Salter (b. 1852), Arthur Morton Starr (b. 1855), Henry Lincoln (b. 1857), Emma Lavinia (b. 1859), George Douglas (b. 1861), William Anglin (b. 1863) and Harriet Augusta (b. 1866).
In 1819, Dr. Rice moved his family to Woodstock, N.B., where the young Samuel Rice received his early education. For two years, he pursued a business career for which he had had some training, but the profound experience of his conversion to Methodism in 1834 eventually turned him from business to the Christian ministry.
Rice was received on trial in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1837. His ordination four years later led to six years of pastorates in New Brunswick and included a year spent collecting funds to establish a Wesleyan academy in Sackville (later Mount Allison University). In 1847, Rice went west to accept a pastorate in Toronto. In 1849, he served as the first governor of the Mount Elgin Industrial Institution, a school for Indians at Muncey, before accepting a three-year pastorate in Kingston.
Rev. Rice next moved to Victoria College, Cobourg, where he acted as treasurer in 1853 and as "moral and domestic governor" from 1854 to 1857. He next served at Hamilton and held various administrative posts from 1857 to 1862 before beginning his active involvement with the Hamilton Wesleyan Female College from 1863 to 1878. Following two years at St Marys, he left Ontario and spent 1880-82 in Winnipeg.
All this time Rice was attracting attention as an able administrator. He returned to Toronto in 1883 as president of the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada and in September was elected general superintendent of the Methodist Church, effective the following July when the four Methodist churches in Canada were officially united. Rice favoured the union, believing it a means of forwarding the important doctrines of Methodism, with greater opportunities for missionary work, for education, and for more general participation in the administration of the church's affairs.
Throughout his 47 years with the church, Rice served as a pastor from Cape Breton Island to Winnipeg, held numerous administrative offices, acted as a delegate to many conferences, and displayed an on-going interest in education. Although he was a fine preacher, his greatest gift was church administration and he held all but four of the major offices in the church. He was known as the type of minister who built churches rather than filled them.
Believing the church to be "responsible for the intellectual as well as the moral and religious culture of the people," Rice felt that education was the means by which Methodists could rise from the lower strata of society. While he was serving as governor at Victoria College, his business experience eased the financial tensions.
A letter in the Christian Guardian asked: "How Long Shall the Education of the Daughters of Canada Be Neglected?" Rice, who had been interested in the state of women's education at Victoria, answered this question by bringing to fruition a plan by which the Wesleyan college in Hamilton was established in 1861. After serving as its governor from 1863, Rice succeeded Mary Electa Adams as principal in 1868, a post he held until 1878, when he was elected vice-president of the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada.
Methodist journalist and author William Henry Withrow described Rice as a "tall and commanding figure, with a strong and intellectual face." Withrow also spoke of Rice's "large-hearted catholicity of spirit" towards other Christian churches, while still remaining "a true and progressive Methodist." Confident, assertive, and conservative, Rice was able to change his views in the interest of the church's well-being. His faith was characterized by conviction rather than emotion; his preaching was evangelical, but its substance was "the doctrine of the Gospel," at a time when doctrine was being diluted and preaching was becoming more and more anecdotal.
Rice has been credited with seeing the needs of Methodism more clearly than most of his contemporaries.
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Most of the above information is from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Rice died in 1884 at age 69. A colleague remembered him as "the quintessence of manly strength and wiry endurance, tall, straight as a Norway pine, flexible on his feet, and hard as an oak."
Stories are told of Rice floating on two-inch boards for miles on a swiftly rushing river and swimming a river holding his horse's bridle. A granddaughteer who was said to have inherited his pioneer courage was a prospector in the Arctic Circle.
Palmer Hall at Mount Allison, which has since been torn down. Samuel D. Rice helped establish the Wesleyan Academy which was the forerunner of Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Mount Allison University was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccalaureate degree to a woman (Grace Annie Lockhart, B.Sc, 1875). |
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Two Rice Families in Waupaca County, Wisconsin
INTRODUCTION
Information on these two Rice families is from the Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin Counties. The two families do not appear to be related to each other.
WILLIAM H. RICE of Plainfield, Wisconsin, was born in 1844 at Russell in St. Lawrence Co., New York. In 1855, when he was 11 years old, his parents, William S. and Jennett (Stembing) Rice, moved their family to Wisconsin, settling in Waupaca County.
Rice was a little more than 17 years old when he enlisted in 1861 at Wautoma in Co. H of the Wisconsin Infantry for three years of Civil War service. Three of his brothers--Martin, Miner and Hiram Rice--also were in the Army. In 1866, William wed Mary Kennedy. Their children are Ira A. and Ruel A. Rice.
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ARTHUR G. RICE of Antigo, Wisconsin was born in 1847 in Boston, MA, a son of M. Henry and Olive (Lilley) Rice. The father was a Massachusetts native and the mother came from New York. Arthur came to Wisconsin at age 16 with his parents, who in 1852 settled at Waupaca, where he grew up on a farm.
Arthur Rice married in 1873 Mary Bailey, the daughter of John D, and Martha (Noyes) Bailey. Their children were Irvin L., Claude H., Gertrude and Fred Rice.
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SOUTHERN FAMILY TREES
Shadrach Rice of
South Carolina and Tennessee?
(follow-up)
In our last issue, we presented what seemed to be conflicting references to a Shadrach Rice who allegedly had brothers David, William and Micajah. The 1734 William Rice will names them as sons; a 1734 deed to all four is by a John Rice.
Reader Eve Royce notes that the Shadrach Rice who lived in Georgetown, SC, had a son, Shadrach Jr., who is, she believes, the Shadrach who migrated to Tennessee in 1836
There is a 10-page article on the family of Shadrach Rice who came from Georgetown, SC, to Lauderdale Co., TN, in RICE BOOK THREE: Tennessee & Connecticut Rice Lineages. According to it, Shadrach was born in 1799 to Charles (1757-1815) and Hannah (Phillips) Rice of Georgetown District. The material was compiled by Shadrach's granddaughter, Lucia Estelle Rice, and given to your editor in 1974 by Alice Anderson Rice of Henning, TN. Her father, Moreau Rice, and Lucia were first cousins. The story in Book 3 also includes excerpts from Shadrach's daily journal.
Eve is right in that there were a father and son named Shadrach, but they were much earlier.
The 1790 census lists, as inhabitants of Georgetown Dist., Charles, Shadrach Sr. and Shadrach Jr. This Charles would be the father of the Shadrach who went to Tennessee. It is these earlier generations that we need to know more about.
Back to the problem: If the Shadrach Rice listed in the 1734 will is the older one given in the 1790 census and is the one mentioned in William Rice's 1734 will, his son would most likely be too young to have been mentioned in a 1734 deed. It would also be strange (but not impossible) for a father and son to both have brothers named David, William and Micajah.
This does not solve the parentage problem (father William or John?) of brothers Shadrach, David, William and Micajah, but your editor has located records from the Bible of Charles and Hannah (Phillips) Rice, who were married in 1782, and so will share them here.
Elizabeth Rice, daughter of Charles and Hannah Rice, born May 10, 1783
Jane Rice, daughter of Charles and Hannah Rice, born Sept. 19, 1785
David Rice, born Jan. 25, 1788
Charles Rice, born March 25, 1792
Joel Rice, born March 13, 1795
John P. Rice, born June 9, 1797
Shadrack Rice, born Feb. 13, 1799 (one who went to Lauderdale Co., TN)
Hannah Rice, born Aug. 16, 1803
Thomas G. Rice, born Nov. 1, 1807
(Alice Rice believes there may also have been a daughter, Sarah Phillips Rice, who is not listed in the Bible with these siblings.)
Shadrach's brothers John and Thomas also settled in Lauderdale Co., TN. There are indications that this family came from Hanover Co., VA. A DNA test might help focus on the earlier generations. Best bet would probably be to locate a descendant of RALPH ESTES RICE (1883-1956), who was a Dyersburg, TN, lawyer who descends from Shadrach Rice and was interested in his family genealogy. He had sons Ralph Jr. and Milton B. Rice, or a descendant of his cousin, ERNEST RICE (1872-1952), also a Dyersburg attorney, who had sons Ernest Jr. and Henry K.
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~ Networking ~
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In our last issue new reader Patricia Duke of California said her earliest known ancestor was a Martin Rice of Missouri. We then listed eight Martin Rices and noted that if it was any of them she could find information in Rice Book Three: Tennessee and Connecticut Rice Lineages.
Dr. Bev Howard Harris, who was a contributor to Rice Book 3, has since submitted
clarifications regarding the various Martin Rices.
His introdutory information is:
"In the latest Rice Family Newsletter...there is a list of the various Martin Rices found in RICE BOOK 3. Since I am a first cousin, three times removed, of Martin Rice (1814-1903), I'd like to add the following information...You will remember that I supplied the information found in Book 3 on pp. 63-79 concerning the descendants of Elizabeth (Rice) Powell, my gg-grandmother, who married Absalom Powell. Martin Rice was a first cousin of my great-grandmother, Lousia Jane (Powell) Harris, who married my great-grandfather, John Hardin Harris."
1) The Martin Rice who married Ethel Rutherford and the Martin Z(ero) Rice were one and the same. He never made it to Lone Jack, MO, but remained in TN. (Rice Book 3, p. 26)
2) My Martin Rice (1814-1903) didn't meet his wife, Mary Lynch, until after he moved to Lone Jack, MO. She was from nearby Lafayette Co., MO. He moved with his parents [Enoch and Mary (Young) Rice] from Big Valley, TN to Jackson Co., MO. Shortly after his arrival from TN, he spent a summer as a young bachelor with his aunt and uncle, Elizabeth (Rice) and Absalom Powell, "making a crop with them," three miles east of Independence, MO.
Recently, I have discovered that Martin Rice and his wife may not be buried in the Pleasant Gardens Cemetery, located one mile south and one mile west of Lone Jack, MO. His tombstone is there, but he is also listed as being buried in a small country cemetery south of Pleasant Hill in Cass County, where his young wife was buried. He never remarried, but remained a widower.
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Reader Patricia Maher from Paw Paw, Michigan, is looking for information on Margaret Rice, born 1833, Amherst, Lorain Co., Ohio. Margaret married Isaac G. Hazel at Amherst.
EDITOR'S NOTES: Heads of household at Amherst in Lorain Co., Ohio, when the 1830 census was taken, were Abraham, Joseph and Peter Rice. The 1850 census shows Abraham, 49, his wife Margaret, 44, and their family, which includes a daughter, Margaret, born ca. 1833. Also in the household, all with the Rice surname, are Mary Rice 27, Ann Rice 22, John Rice 21, Maria Rice 19, Adaline Rice 18, Nancy Rice 15, Susan Rice 12, Abraham Rice 10, Wesley Rice 8, Charles Rice 6, and George Rice 4. Abraham, a farmer, is listed as born in Pennsylvania. Also living in Amherst in 1850--and born in Pennsylvania--are Elizabeth Rice, born ca. 1786; Peter Rice, born ca. 1796; and, several younger Rices.
PERSONAL NOTE: Hi, Pat! My mom's family is from your part of Michigan...around Dowagiac, Watervleit and Coloma. ~ Rosemary
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NEW READER Bobby Rice from Georgia is looking for the ancestry of a William Rice born about 1780 in North Carolina who married Rachel _(?)_ from South Carolina and lived in Newton County, Georgia, in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
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NEW READER Wanda Covey of Oklahoma is looking for the ancestry of Elisha J. Rice (1833-1904) who lived in Georgia and Alabama.
Wanda: If you know the towns he lived in, let me know and I may be able to help. ~ Rosemary
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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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