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Your Rice Family E~Zine
Generation by Generation ~ Century by Century
TWICE MONTHLY VOL. 2, NO. 19 October 26, 2009
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 . Brigadier General Americus Vespucius Rice (1835-1904) lost a leg during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, as part of Sherman's advance on Atlanta. During his last year in the field, he served with but one leg. Drawing at left shows soldiers hauling cannon up the mountainside. At right is an 1864 sketch of the Kennesaw battlefront by war correspondent Alfred Waud; it has been digitally restored. | |
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IN THIS ISSUE
Americus Vespucius Rice: Civil War General and Ohio Congressman
Rice Marriages in
Gloucester Co., NJ
Beware of
Name Changes
Root Diggers &
Branch Climbers:
~ More Humorous
Epitaphs
~ Things a Genealogist
Never Wants to Hear
Ohio Descendants
of Ebenezer Rice
OBITUARY:
Lois Rice Blankenship
Southern Family Trees:
~ Barnwell Co., SC Rices
~ David Rice of
Lexington, KY
~ Correction:
Hezekiah Rice
The Bailey Rices
Part 2
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(Desc. of Thomas & Marcy Rice of Virginia)
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We feature in this issue the family of Ebenezer Rice of Ohio, beginning with his grandson, Civil War Brig. Gen. Americus Vespucius Rice.
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AMERICUS VESPUCIUS RICE:
Civil War General & Ohio Congressman
Americus Vespucius Rice was born in Ohio, a son of Clark Hammond Rice and the former Katherine Mowers. His grandfather, Ebenezer Rice (see below) had come to Ohio from Massachusetts.
Americus was born in Perrysville, Ohio and grew up in Kalida, Ohio, where his father was a bank president. He pursued classical studies, attended Antioch College, graduated from Union College and studied law.
At the outbreak of the Civil War young Americus interrupted his law studies and immediately volunteered as a private soldier when President Abraham Lincoln issued the first call for troops in April of 1861.
He entered the Army has a second lieutenant and left it five years later s a brigadier general, having received a wound for every one of his promotions. His quick rise in ranked has been attributed to both his daring and his unusual military skill.
At one time, Rice's regiment, the 57th Ohio Voluntee Infantry, had been commanded by a colonel who was a prominent politician and a member of Congress. At Shiloh, the colonel sought the safety of the river bank at first fire and Rice, senior captain of the regiment, took command and held the regiment on the front for two awful days during which he was wounded by a shell exploding over his head and knocking him from his horse.
Rice was constantly with Sherman's Army and under that famous general's instructions Rice commanded the rear guard of the evacuating army in the fall of 1862.
In late 1862, when he was propmoted to colonel, Rice looked so young that his superiors wouldn't let him see the governor for fear he would refuse to sign the petition.
For his actions at Vicksburg, Gen. Sherman--who said Rice had the best disciplined command in his corps--recommended him for appointment as full brigadier general.
While leading the terrible assault at Kennesaw Mountain, Rice received three wounds; for his action at Resaca, George, he was again recommended for promotion. Rice was in the Army five years and during the last year served in the field with but one leg.
After the war, Rice entered politics and served as a Congressman from Ohio from 1874 to 1878, where he was author of an arrears pension bill. In Congress, he ws chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions.
By profession, Rice was a banker, succeeding his father as president of the family-owned bank in Ottawa, Ohio. He built--and was president of--the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw Railroad. He was also officer and director of numerous corporations and business enterprises.
Rice also was pension agent at Columbus, Ohio during President Cleveland's administration, then a purchasing agent for the U. S. Census Bureau.
Gen. Rice's wife, Mary, was the daughter of Judge Ben Metcalf of Lima, Ohio. She died in Washington, D. C. They had daughters Mary and Catherine.
He died April 6, 1904 at his Washington apartment, after suffering several weeks from cancer of the kidneys, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
See story on his family below: "Ohio Descendants of Ebenezer Rice"
BELOW: CONGRESSMAN AMERICUS VESPUCIUS RICE
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BEWARE OF NAME CHANGES!
HARMON/HERMAN RICE (b. 1849, Germany) is really Harmon (or Herman) Sovistuski, son of a Mr. Sovistuski and Christina Reich (or Rich). Unless you know this, you can't find a birth certificate for him.
Harmon Rice married Mary Agnes Cooper in 1874 at Albert Lea, MN. She was born in 1848 in Norway, daughter of William Peter Cooper, and died in 1889 at Taopi, MN.
Their children (first 8 b. Mansfield Twp., MN, and last one at Taopi): August C. (1877-1953), m. Katherine Farley; Albert Jay (1878-1947), m. 1) Catherine Gagen and 2) Mrs. Blanche Bryant; Samuel (1879-1942); George T. (1880-1939), m. Malvina Williams; Ernest (1881-1943), m. Effie Rabbit; Henry J. (1882-1950), m. Fannie Hawkins; Sara C. (1885-1942), m. 1) Everett Miller and 2) Charles Merrill); Agnes E. (b. 1887), m. 1) William Leonard and 2) Frederick Kress; and, Martha, born and died in 1889.
SOURCE: Information compiled in the 1960s by Clyde O. Northrup of Lewiston, Idaho, a great-grandson of Harmon and Mary (Cooper) Rice from material from Agnes (Rice) Kress of St. Paul, MN; Catholic Cemetery Records, La Crosse, WI; records of Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, and University of Minnesota Hospital, and data contributed by Harry W. Haedt of Mankato, MN, and Evan K. Wulff of Albert Lea, MN.
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RICE MARRIAGES, GLOUCESTER CO., NJ
SOURCE: Gloucester County, New Jersey Marriage Records, compiled and published by H. Stanley Craig, 1930, Merchantville, NJ.
Phebe Ann Rice and Thomas Moore, March 14,1846
Ellen Rice and Isaac Duffield, July 19, 1842
Eliza Rice and Abraham Lee, Dec. 24, 1835
Eleanor E. Rice and Henry M. Munion of Penns Grove, Dec. 14, 1865
Edward C. Rice and Emeline Thomas, Jan. 17,1850
Isaac Rice and Elen Colway, Sept. 28, 1797
John Rice and Elizabeth Sweeten, Jan. 28, 1819
John D. Rice and Rebecca Ballenger, April 3, 1848
Lewis Rice and Rozanna D. Baker, Sept. 2, 1824
Sam'l Rice and Sarah C. Dare, Feb. 19, 1840
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FOR FELLOW ROOT DIGGERS
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BRANCH CLIMBERS
More Humorous Epitaphs
Here lies the body of Mary Gwynne
who was so very pure within
She cracked the shell of her earthly skin
and hatched herself a cherubim
Here lies a father of 29 Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton
There would have been more She was a wife that never vex'd one.
but he didn't have time. I can't say that for the first one
under the next stone.
Things a Genealogist Doesn't Want to Hear
When at last after much hard work you have solved the mystery that you have been working on for two years, your aunt says, "I could have told you that."
John, son of Thomas the immigrant, whom your relatives claim as the family progenitor, died on board ship at the age of 10.
Your great-grandfather's newspaper obituary states that he died leaving no issue of record.
You learn that your great aunt's executor just sold her life's collection of family genealogical materials to a flea market dealer "somewhere in New York."
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Ohio Descendants of Ebenezer Rice
{This material was discovered more than 30 years ago by family researcher Nan (Rice) Shute in a loose leaf notebook at the Library of Congress in Washington. The material was compiled in 1944-1945 by Miss Mary O. Eddy and primarily based upon information prepared by her mother, Mrs. Nancy L. Coulter Eddy.}
Captain Ebenezer Rice* was born April 8, 1773 at Marlboro, Massachusetts, moved first to Willsboro in Essex Co., New Jersey, then went to Green Township in Ashland Co., Ohio. He died June 3, 1821. Capt. Rice married Martha Hammond. She was born Sept. 1, 1776, and died Sept. 7, 1835.
Martha's mother's name was Mary Clark, who wove our coverlet. Mary Clark's mother was Martha Rider, who spun and wove our old towel before she was married. We have a rocking chair that was the last Martha Hammond sat in, as well as the last our grandmother Coulter sat in.
After Capt. Ebenezer Rice's death in 1821, Martha (Hammond) Rice eventually married our great-grandfather, Judge Thomas Coulter, as his second wife.
Capt. and Mrs. Rice had 11 children, who are now listed with notes on them and their descendants.
1. ELIZABETH RICE (1797-1884). This is my grandmother. She was born in New Salem, Franklin Co., Massachusetts, and married John Coulter (1790-1873). Their family is given in a Coulter history.
2. EBENEZER RICE (1798-1799)
3. MARTHA "PATTY" RICE (1800-1888) married John Chapel (1797-1844). We saw their marriage record in the Richland Co. Court House in 1944. The old yellow document records their marriage Nov. 10, 1818 by Thomas Pope, J.P. Patty was born in Montpelier, Vermont. She died in Spring Grove, Wisconsin. John Chapel, supposedly an orphan from Scotland, won Patty's heart by his grand red vest, mother said. Even though he was a gambler, he was in 1829 elected a trustee of Green Twp., Ohio. Patty, remembered as a woman of honor, burned provisions her husband won by gambling. Children: Harriet Chapel (m. James Coulter) and Ebenezer R. Chapel.
4. ALEXANDER RICE (1801-1884). Alexander had seven children to his first wife, Sallie Johnston (1803-1841), and three children to his second wife, Mary VanScoyoc (1819-1854), whom he wed in 1842. Her tombstone refers to her as "Our Dear Little Mae". Their chldren are listed next, but in this account we have omitted the more recent descendants, particularly in the female lines.
- ROSELLA RICE (1827-1888), an author who lived her entire life in her parents' home. She had a daughter, Lily, born in 1854, who married Daniel W. Stahl in 1889 and had children Francis, Russell and Wilbur C. Stahl.
- ROSINA RICE (1829-1909) whose name is spelled "Rocina" in the fmily Bible. She wed Nathan Conine in 1849, lived at Eddyville, Iowa, and had children Evaline, Charles and O. R. Conine.
- ORSON RICE (1831-1846)
- REUBEN H. RICE (1834-1902), who served with the Ohio Volunteer Infantry's Co. E, 64th Regt., during the Civil War. He wed, in 1869, Martha "Mattie" Miller (1846-1920). They had children Sherwood Alexander Rice (1879-1882), called "Shirley" in the Rice Bible, and an adopted daughter older than Sherwood who married Willis Ryland and died in 1947. They had children Cary, Edna, Howard, Russell and Corinne Ryland.
- ISAAC JOHNSON RICE (1836-1888) married Margaret Oliver, known as "Gret", to whom he had a son Lewis A. Rice (1875-1893).
- ROSALINE RICE (1840)
- INFANT SON (1841)
- RUSSELL BRYTE RICE (1846-1918) married Alice Hartwell in 1899.
- ADA LENORE RICE (d. 1854)
- IDA JOSEPHINE RICE (1850-1926) married Andrew Henderson Wilson (1848-1932) in 1878. Children: Kitty Wilson (1879-1947) married Clark Clinker; Grace L. Wilson (1881-1955) married James Culler; Clark Rice Wilson (1882-1927); Margaret R. Wilson (1884-1950) married Ray Zimmerman; Lee H. Wilson (1886-1943); John R. Wilson (1890-1952) married Esther Waburn; and, Ida L. Wilson (1893-1957), who married Chester Craig.
5. HARRIET RICE (1802-1803)
6. CLARK HAMMOND RICE (1804-1870) wed Katherine Mowers, sister of Isaac Mowers; she died in 1874. great uncle Clark lived where the Kiester home now stands on the other side of the creek. He had a general store in a frame building where Cowell's house stnds. This was replaced by a brick building which Clark Rice rented and continued to use until 1841, when he moved to Kalida, Ohio. Henry Guthrie remembers that Clark was quite a dandy, in contrst with his brother Alex. Claek was president of the Rice Bank of KIalida at the time of his death. He had two children.
ANGERONA RICE, born 1834, Perrysville, Ohio, married Dr. R. W. Thrift of Lima, Ohio in 1854 at Kalida. They moved to Lima in 1866. Their children: R. W. Thrift, a real estate dealer; Mrs. Johnson Thurston of Toledo; Mrs. E. W. Kendall of Toledo, and Mabel Thrift, who wed Dr. A. B. Gray of Lima.
GENERAL AMERICUS VESPUCIUS RICE (1835-1904). He attended Hayesville Acadmy with his sisters, was an 1850 graduate of Union College, lost a leg at the Battle of Chickamauga, and was elected to Congress. He wed Mary Metcalf, daughter of Judge Ben Metcalf of Lima, Ohio; she died in Washington, D.C. They had two daughters, Mary, a clerk in the Pension Bureau in Washington at the time of her mother's death, and Catherine.
- JULIA RICE, who married Judge J. W. Seney of Toledo, Ohio, and had a son. George Seney.
- SAMUEL BARNABAS RICE, born 1841, Kalida, Ohio, who became a lawyer and banker.
- SARAH "SALLIE" RICE of Toledo, Ohio.
7. ORSON RICE (1807-1830)
8. ABIGAIL RICE (1810-1844), who married David Ayres
9. REUBEN RICE, born in 1813 and died the same year.
10. LEVI RICE (1814-1862) married Prudence Mowers and moved to Oregon.
11. DR. SAMUEL BARNABAS RICE (1817-1899), youngest child of Capt. Ebenezer Rice. We have a photograph of this great uncle. He once visited in Perrysville. Lottie remembers him. Samuel married Rebekah Downing. Cousin Julia Waldron Thomas writes an interesting story of an Uncle Sam, who is doubtless the above. His wife was known as aunt Beckie. They, with their two children--Ida and Seneca--lived in Rossie, Iowa, a little town not far from the Carroll vicinity. In reality, the home was that of Ida (Mrs. Luce), whose husband ran a general store there. The home was an old rambling house. In June of July of 1899, cousin Rose Waldron took Julia there to Uncle Samuel's funeral, and they remained several days. Mr. Luce later sold his store and went into the real estate business, growing quite wealthy. There were two Luce children, Nellie and Sammie. Later still, the Luces moved to Carroll, Iowa, and built a beautiful home. A nice bedroom and bath were provided for Aunt Beckie and the old lady was kept dressed in black taffecta and lace caps much like Whistler's mother. Ida was kind and generous with her money, helping her brother Seneca and educating a nephew. Eventually, they sold out in Carroll County and went west. Aunt Beckie died not long after that, as did Mr. Luce. Julia remembers seeing them during visits to Carroll. They had a handsome car, with a chauffeur, when cars were a novelty. Lucelia Sellman is probably their daughter. She once lived in Wkefield, Nebraska, then moved to Keyapsha Co., Nebraska, on the South Dakota border. Lucelia married Mr. Snyder. There were other children of Dr. Samuel Barnabas Rice and his wife, but no record is available.
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* Ebenezer Rice descends from Dea. Edmund Rice (1594-1663) of Sudbury, Massachusetts, through his son Thomas, grandson Ephraim and great-grandson Gershom Rice. Capt. Ebenezer Rice, a grandson of this Gershom Rice, was the son of Samuel and Abigail (Underwood) Rice, who were married in 1773 at Sudbury. Samuel is buried in the Holtshire (MA) Cemetery. Ebenezer was the oldest son in a family of at least eight children. Additional data on the early generations can be obtained from the website of the Deacon Edmund Rice Assn.
NEXT ISSUE:
In our next issue we will profile more members of the Ebenezer Rice family, including a woman author, and share a letter that son Levi wrote home while enroute to Oregon in 1845.
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Lois Blankenship, 72
of Roanoke, Virginia
Family Historian
(Lois Blankenship was a regular correspondent with your editor many years ago. The following has been sent by her son, Mike, who told his mother he would take up pursuing the family genealogy where she left off. Thanks, Mike!)
Lois Rice Blankenship, 72, of Roanoke, Virginia, entered into eternal rest on Monday, October 12, 2009, in her home while surrounded by her family.
She was born in Giles County, Virginia., on September 25, 1937, one of the 21 children of Henry C. Rice. Lois was the first child born to Henry and Bertha (Lawson) Rice. She was the family historian and loved to work on her genealogy. She also used her talents to research the ancestors for many members of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry Co. C and the SCV.
She was previously employed by Kenrose Manufacturing Company and the Roanoke County Schools as a much loved teacher's assistant. She was an active member of the Community of Faith Church and participated in the SOAR group of retirees from Yokahama Tire Company.
Lois was preceded in death by her parents and 12 siblings. Those left to cherish her memory are her husband of 57 years, Edward Eugene Blankenship of Roanoke; two sons, Michael E. Blankenship of Roanoke, and Donnie L. Blankenship and wife, Johniece "Babe," of Roanoke; grandchildren, Joshua L. Blankenship of Roanoke, Cody Blankenship and wife Cameron of Shawsville, Misty B. Brooks and husband Bentley of Columbus, Miss., Dustin P. Blankenship and wife Patricia of Shawsville, Linsey B. Wade and husband Brian of Roanoke, and Angel Hall and husband Jayme of Gerard, Pa.
She is also survived by seven greatgrandchildren; brothers, Watha Rice of Peterstown, W.Va., Mason Rice of Dublin, Paul Rice and Henry C. Rice of Salem, and Mark Rice of Pembroke; sisters, Cleo Tate of Pearisburg, Ethel T. Burkholder of Salem, Reba Smith of The Villages, Fla., and Sharon Carbaugh of Blacksburg. She also leaves several special nephews, nieces and friends.
Special thanks to Good Samaritan Hospice and John Edmonds for their caring services to the family. Services were held October 15, 2009, at Oakey's South Chapel in Roanoke, with the Rev. Jim Hain officiating. Interment was in Sherwood Memorial Park, with Honors by the 2nd Virginia Cavalry Company C.
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SOUTHERN FAMILY TREES
Barnwell Co., South Carolina Rices
DAVID RICE was born March 13, 1780, son of Holman Rice of Hanover Co., Virginia. He married, Nov. 30, 1809, Nancy Branch, who was born Nov. 30, 1809, and died Sept. 10, 1859.
CHILDREN (Born Rice's Ridge, Barnwell Co., SC):
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Martha Ann Rice (1815-1817)
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Rebecca Ann Rice (1822-1877)
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David H. Rice (1824-1874) married Catherine Williams Thomson in 1849
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Joseph Rice (1826-1903)
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Sheldon Rice (1829-1838)
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Mary Elizabeth Rice (1831-1883)
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William Baker Rice 1835-1899) married F. Urbanna Faust
SOURCE: Information compiled from a family Bible and other family records by Joseph S. Rice of Pasadena, Texas, in the 1950s.
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David Rice of Lexington, Kentucky
David Rice (1844-1880) was a son of William G. and Susanna (Graves) Rice. He lived at Lexington, Kentucky. David married Margarette A. R. Walton (1848-1886) of Barren Co., KY, daughter of William A. and Maria (Smith) Walton. Margarette married, second, a Mr. Richardson.
CHILDREN (born in Hart Co., KY, probably at Horse Cave):
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William Walton Rice (1868-1903) married ca. 1888 Julia Ann Cromeans
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Eugene Rice (1870-1896)
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Allie Mina Rice (b. 1873)
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Susa G. Rice (b. 1875) married John Barrett Walton in 1891
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Leticia Watkins Rice (b. 1878)
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Mary Davie Rice (b. 1880)
SOURCE: Information compiled in the 1960s by Ruby R. Rice of Chandler, AZ. Her soruces include an 1849 deed of William G. Rice oif Barren Co., KY; a family Bible owned by Nora Lee Davis of Carlsbad, NM, and the 1880 census of Horse Cave, KY.
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CORRECTION: Place of Death for Hezekiah Rice
In our last issue we gave a DAR member's line of descent from Revolutionary War soldier Hezekiah Rice, who married Mary Saunders. The information given in the DAR Record was that this Hezekiah Rice was born in Hanover Co., Virginia, and died in Virginia. He died in South Carolina. Dates for Hezekiah and his wife, Mary Saunders, were also incorrect.
Your editor should have added three notations: 1) Any genealogical data is only as good as its source. 2) Early DAR records often contain errors. Early members, such as the one in this case, were assumed to have correct information on someone as closely related as a great-grandfather. Documentation was not always required. 3) Researchers have differing data on this Hezekiah Rice.
We have a correction from a credible source. Martha Hughes Rice, owner of the Rice Southern email list, writes:
Hezekiah's marker in Union, SC reads "died 9-1803 (age 45 yrs.) Rev. War". His wife was Mary Saunders (born 10-7-1858 Louisa, Virginia, died 8-17-1832, Union, SC)
I would consider this as a personal favor as I have worked so hard trying to sort out the various Hezekiahs. Thanks.
Martha
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The Bailey & Rice Families
(Some of the persons mentioned below were covered in Part I of the Bailey Rice information, presented in our last issue. These references, however, are from different sources.)
PART 2
About 1805, Charles Rice Jr., along with Campbell, Fleming and Holman Rice., moved on to adjacent land in Fleming Co., KY. Correspondent Cynthia (Rice) Hogan reported her grandfather, Henry B. Rice (1859-1949), believed they were all related to each other. They may descend from Charles Rice and Mary Toney (also given as Polly and Sarah), who were wed in 1774 in Albemarle Co., VA. Their son, Campbell Rice (1778-1846), a Methodist minister, was born in Powhatan Co., VA, married Elizabeth Bailey of Orange Co., NC, and is buried in Carter Co., KY. Campbell Rice's brother, Fleming Rice, married, ca. 1804 in Orange Co., NC, Sarah Bailey; he died in 1807 in Montgomery Co., KY. Cynthia descends from William S. Rice, born ca. 1765, Virginia, who married Susannah Shanks and settled at Olive Branch in Fleming Co., KY. That the William S. Rice family is related to the Campbell Rice who married Elizabeth Bailey is only conjecture. SOURCES: The Epistle (Vol. 4, No. 12, 1978; Vol. 13. No. 2, 1987).
In a 1979 query, Mrs. Maxine Haynes of Maryville, MO, was seeking information on a Gabriel Rice, born in Louisville, KY, who married Martha Laws. She was born at Louisville in 1805, the daughter of Jeremiah Laws and Susanna Bailey, both of Boyle Co., KY. SOURCE: The Epistle (Vol. 5, No. 10, 1979)
In a 1979 query, Mrs. Dorothy J. Autry of Wichita, KS, was seeking information on the parentage of Bailey Rice, born ca. 1800, VA, who married Elizabeth Overstreet in 1827. She was a great-granddaughter of their son, William Claiborne Rice, born 1831. She writes: "There is supposed to be an earlier Bailey Rice in my line. Could he possibly be the Rev. War soldier Bailey Rice who died in Wood Co., VA?" She believed the Bailey Rice born ca. 1800 to be a grandson of Clayborn Rice and Molly Smith, who were married in 1773, and the great-grandson of Clayborn/Claiborne Rice who wed the widow Susannah Walton. SOURCE: The Epistle (Vol. 5, No. 10, 1979)
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Pension Application of Bailey Rice: S39044
Dated 23 Sept. 1819
Bailey Rice, age 62, made the following declaration before General Court Judge Bailey Rice of Wood Co., Virginia:
That he the said Bailey Rice enlisted in the year 1780, in August or September, for the term of 18 months service in a company commanded by John Marshall "now Chief Justice of the United States," in a regiment commanded by Col. John Green and Col. Samuel Haws/Hawes, Second Virginia Line, Continental Army...that afterwards he was transferred to a company commanded by a Capt Bentley and after that to Capt Edwards company and that he continued to serve till the end of the year 1781 when he was discharged in the State of South Carolina by Maj. Samuel Sneed/Snead.
...that he was in the Battles of Camden, South Carolina, Guilford Courthouse, the Siege of Ninety Six, South Caroliona, and Eutaw Springs...and that he is now in Reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence of his said service except the certificate of Francis Grey, which he produced...
Bailey (his _X__mark) Rice
The record contains an affidavit by Francis Gray, "late lieutenant of the said Detachment," attesting to Bailey Rice's service and dated 25 March 1794.
Another deposition dated 25 March 1794 indicates Bailey Rice appeared in open court before the Superior Court of Wood County, was duly sworn and, under oath, testified to his Revolutionary War service in "the Second Virginia Regiment" and that he received a Pension Certificate dated 2 Sept. 1819
This testimony indicates he had neither given away nor sold any personal property and so therefore was eligible under an 18 March 1818 Act of Congress for additional recompense as a Revolutionary War veteran. This is accompanied by a schedule giving the following information:
Schedule of the Estate goods and chattels of Bailey Rice:
A lease for life of fifty acres of land, of which twenty or thereabouts is cleared, of the probable value of $20 per annum.
One bed and bedding
four sheep and three hogs
4 old chairs
½ Doz plates, one old pot, one Dutch ovenone old Chest, one table and one churn
some knives & forks & spoons
and "all the rest of my property is under Execution to satisfy Judgements against me which I am not able to pay but by the sale thereof...the executions levied thereon amount to about $100- and the probable value of the property taken to satisfy them will not exceed that amount"
Bailey (his _X__mark) Rice
Bailey Rice further testifies that:
"I am by occupation a farmer and that owing to a complaint that I have long had I am unable to pursue it and that the members of my family who reside with me are my wife Elizabeth who is 56 years of age & very infirm, Lucinda aged 22, Malinda aged 13, which Daughters might by their labour support themselves."
SOURCE: Notes taken by Rosemary Bachelor from a microfilm copy of pension records forwarded by correspondent Nan Rice Shute in the 1980s.
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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.
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