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Marlborough, Massachusetts:
Ancestral Rice Hometown Celebrates 350th Birthday in 2010
SHOWN ABOVE IS THE PETER RICE (1658-1753) HOMESTEAD, HOME OF THE MARLBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PETER WAS A GRANDSON OF THE IMMIGRANT, DEACON EDMUND RICE, WHO CAME FROM ENGLAND TO SUDBURY, MASSACHUSETTS IN 1638 AND LATER MOVED TO NEIGHBORING MARLBOROUGH, MA. PETER WAS ONE OF THE 13 CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND MARY (KING) RICE. IT IS SAID PETER BROUGHT HIS BRIDE, REBECCA HOWE, TO THE HOUSE FOLLOWING THEIR 1688 WEDDING. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH SMALLER THEN...PROBABLY TWO ROOMS HEATED WITH A FIREPLACE AND A LOFT OVERHEAD.
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Rice Ancestral Hometown Celebrates 350th Birthday in 2010
Alexander Hamilton Rice Mayor, Congressman and Massachusetts Governor
Who Is Sarah Rice Who Wed Benedict Webber
John W. Rice:
A "Lost in New York" Family
The Mayhew Rice Family of Northumberland, NY
Richard Johnson Works on His Hawkins Co., Tennessee Ancestors
John Olin Rice: Civil War Veteran and Maine Accountant
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~ A Missouri Rice Family
~ Rice Family in Harrison Co., Kentucky
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Alexander H. Rice
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Massachusetts
Governor
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Alexander Hamilton Rice (1818-1895) was mayor of
Boston, Massachusetts in 1856-1857, a U.S. Congressman during the Civil War, and the 30th Governor of Massachusetts from 1876 to 1878.
He was born in Newton, MA, to Thomas and Lydia (Smith) Rice, and learned the ropes at his father's paper mill at Newton and in a mercantile house in Boston. Following his 1844 graduation from Union College in Schenectady, New York, he became a paper manufacturer and dealer with Wilkins, Carter and Company in Boston.
In 1853, Rice was elected a member of the City of Boston's Common Council. The next year he became the Council chairman. Rice served as the first Republican mayor of Boston from 1856 to 1857. It was during his term that the area known as Back Bay was developed.
Rice served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1859 to 1867, serving as chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs from 1863 to 1865.
He died in Melrose, MA, July 22, 1895.
It has been claimed that Alexander was a descendant of Deacon Edmund Rice, who came from England to Sudbury, MA, in 1638. Your editor has not seen proof of that lineage.
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WHO IS THE SARAH RICE
WHO WED BENEDICT WEBBER
AT BOSTON IN 1694?
It is rare to find a pre-1700 record in New England naming a Rice who can't be fitted into one of the major branches of the Rice family, the largest being the descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice of Sudbury, Massachusetts, and the others being founded in Maine (when it was part of Massachusetts), Rhode Island and Connecticut (including one by way of Massachusetts).
But here comes an unidentified one!
Famed Boston preacher Cotton Mather joined Sarah Rice and Benedict Webber in holy matrimony on May 14, 1694, according to a record included in the "Ninth Records Commission Report--Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1630-1699, Boston, Mass." The entry is on page 218. COTTON MATHER
Can anyone give parents for this Sarah Rice?
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A "Lost in New York" Rice Family
Shown above are Carrie, Hattie and John F. Rice,
children of John W. and Electa Rice of Pontiac, Michigan. According to the 1880 census, John W. Rice was born ca. 1838 in New York, where his father and mother were also born. Electa was born ca. 1844 in Michigan, but her parents were born in New York. The children were Carrie, born ca. 1863, Hattie, born ca. 1864, and John F. Rice, born ca. 1867, all born in Michigan. This is probably the John W. Rice who married Electa Pearsall, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hutchins) Pearsall of Bloomfield Township, Michigan, ca. 1860. John may have been a son of James and Eva (Brown) Rice, but your editor has no evidence.
Many Rices who lived in the midwestern states during the mid to late 1800s came from Rice families that had lived in the Eastern seaboard states, but often a generation settled in such states as New York, Tennessee or Kentucky and the next generation pushed further west.
Most New England families went west by way of Vermont and/or New York. Unlike New England, where new settlements often revolved around the church, the central and western New York frontier villages of the early 1800s were not as cohesive. As a result, birth, marriage and death records are sparse for some of these settlements.
Looking for a "lost" John Rice is difficult. It is like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. John W. Rice would have been about age 12 when the 1850 census was taken. The best candidate is a John W. Rice, age 11, living with a Bryant family in Syracuse, NY. There's a clue: A Mary Rice, 62, is living with the Stockey family next door. Mary Bryant, 40, and Elizabeth Stockey, 25, could be her daughters.
There are, however, a dozen other Rices in the same age group.
If anyone has information on these Rices, please let us know. Also, if there are any descendants of Joel Crowner Rice, would you get in touch.
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of Northumberland, New York
THE ABOVE RECORD IS A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL, AS IT WAS FIRST TYPED AND SUBMITTED
The Mayhew Rice Family
This is the family of Mayhew Rice (1799-1867), who was born at Greenwich in Washington Co., New York, a son of Noah Rice (1760-1834) and the former Prudence Luce (1764-1841). Mayhew married in 1831 at Northumberland in Saratoga Co., NY, Rebecca Archer (1810-1894). Rebecca was born in Washington Co., NY. She and Mayhew both died in Northumberland, Rebecca outliving her husband by more than 25 years.
THE RICE LINEAGE
Noah Rice married Prudence Luce in 1781 at Barre in Worcester Co., MA. She was the daughter of Reuben and Jemima (Butler) Luce. Mayhew Rice was named for Jemima's mother, Keziah Mayhew. Noah, a son of Phineas and Hannah (Cummings) Rice, became a Revolutionary War fifer in 1777 at Providence, RI.
Phineas Rice (1724-1777) married Hannah Cummings in 1743 at Dorchester, MA. He was a descendant of Edmund-1 Rice, who came from England to Sudbury, MA, in 1638. Phineas was a son of Perez Rice (1698-1782) and a grandson of cousins Thomas Rice and his wife, Ana Rice. Both were grandchildren of Edmund-1 Rice, Thomas through Thomas and Mary (King) Rice, and Anna through Edward and Agnes (Bent) Rice.
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A Reader Works on His Hawkins County, Tennessee, Rices
'Mary Rice married Ben Green - her cousin - his mother was a Rice'
That caught my eye, especially since I'm a descendant of Benjamin Green. Mary was supposedly the child of Isaac Rice and his wife Margery Wallen, however there is a good deal of doubt about the accuracy of that attribution. It needs to be understood however that the information has passed through several hands and transcriptions. I have also seen, of late, several claims that there are marriage records for Benjamin Green and Mary Rice in what was Pittsylvania County at the time . I have as yet however to find a microfilm, a fiche, or any other source with an actual image of these records. If any one knows of such please let me know.
What little information we do have regarding Benjamin's wife Mary comes primarily from the Census records of 1810, 1820, and 1830 which suggest that she was born sometime between 1765 and 1770. Benjamin and Mary had four children born between roughly 1787 and 1794: A daughter named Dicy and sons James, John, and Isaac. The last record we have of Mary is a deed dated 1829. Mary probably died around 1831-1832 and was most likely buried in the cemetery of the original Drennon's Ridge Baptist Church near Franklinton, in Henry County, Kentucky. This church was adjacent to the Northeast corner of Benjamin Green's plantation and was built about 1812.
The closest thing we have to first hand information comes from one of Benjamin Green's granddaughters and was given at a Guion Miller Commission hearing around 1907. "My name is Margaret A. Ketchum. ,,, I am 64 years old. ... My father (James Green) was born in 1789. He died in 1866. He was born in Tenn. in 1789, he moved to Ky. when 10 years old and lived there until 1829 and then moved to Mo. and lived there the rest of his life."
One day, as I scanned through Henry County Deed Book 5, I encountered a short record not listed in the book's index. It was, I assume, skipped over because it wasn't a deed as such.
1815, Aug. 10 - Henry County Deed Book 5, Page 141
Henry County & etc.
This day came Benjamin Green before me Thomas Frank one of the Commonwealth Justices of the Peace for said County and made oath that a certain negro woman brought by him from Tennessee was a part of his wifes legacy and brought said negro for his own use.
Given under my hand & seal this 10" day of August 1815.
The significance of this document is that it seems to fit quite well, time wise, with the final settlement of the estate of John Rice Sr. of Hawkins County, Tennessee. Unfortunately I have yet to find any record which shows the actual breakdown of the inheritances left to the individual heirs.
Will of John Rice, Sr, Proved in Roane CO, TN court April 1815. Found in Will Book A, pages 60-61:
In the name of God, Amen. I John Rice of the county of Roane and State of TN being of sound mind and memory do make, ordain and establish this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following to wit. First I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Susannah Rice the sum of $200 in cash which money is to be applied in her purchasing whatever part of my household goods and furniture she may think proper to purchase. And whatever she may wish to purchase shall be sold to her at ready money and cash sale. I further give to my wife one bed and furniture. I give and bequeath unto William Rice, son of my first wife, one dollar. As the balance of my estate both real and personal it is my will and desire that it be equally divided amongst my children. It is my desire that Milly Bartlett shall have a young Negro. But the value of said Negro shall be deducted out of her...part of my estate. It is my will that my two grandchildren Betsy and Esau Rice, children of my son, John Rice, deceased, shall have one equal share of my estate between them. And it is further my will and desire that my two old Negroes Jack and Jenny shall be permitted to live together in the same family. And I do hereby appoint my son, Isaac Rice to be executor of this my last will and testament and I do hereby revoke all former wills by me made.
In witness whereof I have here set my hand seal this 22nd day of Sep 1812.
John Rice
Witnesses: John B. Haley, Henry Matlock, John Williams Isaac Rice, Executor.
Note that John Rice in his will mentions ... "William Rice, son of my first wife", "It is my desire that Milly Bartlett shall have a young Negro.", "my two grandchildren Betsy and Esau Rice, children of my son, John Rice, deceased", and "I do hereby appoint my son, Isaac Rice to be executor". All of which seems to fit with the list of children attributed to Isaac Rice and his wife Margery.
"Great Grand Father Isaac Rice and Margery Rice his wife - had 7 daughters and 3 sons.
1. Hannah Rice married Will Walden - her cousin (handwritten Hannah born c1760 married c1780);
2. Mary Rice married Ben Green - her cousin - his mother was a Rice
3. Amy Rice married Malthias Walden - her cousin
4. Sarah Rice married John Thompson
5. Elizabeth Rice married James Thompson
6. Nancy Rice married Joseph Mee
7. Milly Rice married Joseph Bartlett
8. William Rice married Miss Roberts - William Rice moved to N. Carolina and died. Rich. His children remain there.
9. John Rice married and left 2 children Elizabeth and Evan, lived in Missouri. Elizabeth married Alex Russell
10. Isaac Rice married 1st Susan Senter 2nd Martha Matlock."
What else can be factually said about John Rice ? Unfortunately not much that's truly definitive but there are a mass of deeds involving him. A number of these deeds link John Rice to some of the people mentioned on the list above, but perhaps more importantly there are the neighbors mentioned in the body of these deeds. John Rice was part of a community and that community, perhaps due to a strong degree of intermarriage, seems to have clung together for many years. Let's examine a few of these deeds.
This one links four of the brothers in law from the list above and it's also the last document to show Benjamin Green physically present in Hawkins County prior to his move to Henry County, Kentucky.
6 May 1800: Hawkins Co., TN Deed Book 3, Page 37 - (LDS 0972800)
John Rice to John Thompson, Joseph Bartlet, and Joseph Mee
400 acres 'on Blackwater Creek the waters of the Clinch River'
(This deed was witnessed by Benjamin Green and 'proven in open court by oath of Benjamin Green', May Term 1800.)
Another deed which mentions Benjamin Green also yields a name of interest, Moses Johnson.
27 May 1799: Hawkins Co., TN Deed Book 2, Page 488 - (LDS 0972799)
John Rice to Daniel Jones, $43.00 for 60 acres
"Hawkins on the North side of the Copper Ridge in the Mud Camp valley. Begining at a sugar tree a conditional line made between Benj Rice Jr. and the said Daniel Jones in the presence of Benj. Green and Richard Furney ..."
(When this land was sold the sale deed mentioned " a conditional line made between Joseph Bartlett & Moses Johnson"
Benjamin Green in fact acquired his land in Hawkins County from John Rice, and in that deed we find a two more names of interest, Micajah Bunch and Joseph Walling.
9 Sep 1793
Hawkins Co., TN Deed Book 2, Page 99 - (LDS 0972799)
John Rice of Hawkins Co. and Terr. So. of the river Ohio to Benjm. Green of the same. 40 Pounds for 140 acres " In the County of Hawkins in Sizemores valley on the waters of Jos. Wallings Mill Creek a branch of the Clinch River. Beginning at a poplar & dogwood being a corner of Micajah Bunches claim runnin thence along Bunches line South 74 degrees West two hundred & forty poles to a White Oak and Dogwood thence due South one hundred poles to a stake at foot of a large Ridge thence along said ridge North seventy four degrees East two hundred & forty poles to a stake on said ridge. Thence one hundred poles to the beginning."
At this point I will simply list the most relevant documents that I have collected in chronological order and leave the rest to the reader. I have shortened the lists of names in most of these documents to conserve space although there are almost certainly other names of significance in them. Some of these men are known to have been 'Longhunters' and associates of Daniel Boone.
From 'A History Of Halifax County (Virginia) by Wirt Johnson Carrington
COLONIAL SOLDIERS, 1758, HALIFAX COUNTY.
Colonel: Abraham Maury.
Captains: Robert Wooding, Peter Wilson, Robert Wade, Jr., James Dillard, Thomas Callaway.
Lieutenants: Thomas Green, Thomas Spragins, James Dillard, William Edwards.
Privates: John Rice, Arch Thompson, John Blevins, Clement Lee, Williams Blevins, Jr., Josiah Cox, Ningun Prator, John Blevins, Daniel Newman, James Blevins, Thomas Wollin (Wallen), William Cox, William Blevins
Pittsylvania County, Virginia
A List of Tithables Taken July 17, 1767 by Peter Copland, Gent.
James Roberts
Dauzwell Rogers
Capt. William Blevins
John Rice
Neel Roberts (Cornelius Roberts)
James Wallen
Charles Scaggs (brother in law of Archibald Thompson)
Little William Blevins
Joseph Wallen
Elisha Wallen Sen
John Cox, Sr.., John Cox, Jr.
Nenian Prater, Nemiah Prater
1772 --- Botetourt Co., VA; Tithables taken by William Herbert
Elisha Wallen Neal Roberts
James Wallen William Roberts
Joseph Wallen John Rice
Doswell Roger James Blevins
William Rogers Moses Johnson
1774/75 --- Fincastle Co., VA, Virginia Payrolls/Public Service Claims, 1775
(Lord Dunmore's War) Pages 270 & 271
Capt. David Looney's Co.
Lt. John Cox George Jones 29 days
Doswell Rogers 29 days Micajah Bunch 29 days
Jno. Rice 29 days Thomas Walling 29 day
James Walling 29 days William Roberts 29 da
Joseph Walling 29 days Cornelius Roberts 29 days
1777 List of Cox's Militia Company
Lee, Clement Rice, John
Montgomery Co., VA: Order Book Vol. 2, P.302 - (LDS 0032622)
8 Nov 1780
Ordered that Wm. Roberts, Neal Roberts, Moses Johnson, Richard Green, Richard Wright, Clem Lee and George Herd be restored their property again, it being lately taken from them by the Militia of Montgomery and Washington Counties, as nothing appears against them with Regard of their being Enemies to the State."
1781 --- Location unknown.
William Simpson to Richard Green, 22 March 1781, NC Land Grant # 422, Entry # 1634
640 Acres on the South side of the Clinch River near Blackwater Creek. I Asign Over My Rights & Title of the Within Warrant to Richard Green for Value Riceivd as Wittnefs my hand this the 22 of March 1781. -
Wittnefs } Roger Russ (?) William Simpson William Hope
1782, 5 March
Order book, 2 Page 321
Ordered that John Roberts who has been inimical to the American cause be received as a citizen of this state and under the protection of the same on his taking the oath of allegiance and giving security for his good behavior for twelve months and one day. Whereupon the said John Roberts acknowledged himself indebted to this commonwealth in the sum of twenty pounds in species and Doswell Rogers and John Rice in the sum of ten pounds each to be levied of their respective lands and chattels that the said John Roberts shall be of the good behavior for twelve months and one day from this time.
1782 Montgomery County Tax List
Blevins, James Roberts, Cornelius Rogers, Thomas
Blevins, William Roberts, William Rogers, William
Cox, John Rogers, Alexander Skaggs, Henry
Cox, John Rogers, Benjamin Skaggs, Moses
Green, Richard Rogers, John Swift, Flower
Johnson, Moses Rogers, Joseph Wallen, Elisha, Jun
Rice, James Rogers, Reuben Wallen, James
Rice, Spencer Wallen, Joseph
Green, Isaac, List of Elk Creek Militia on 9/6/1782.
Green, Richard, Elk Creek Militia List, 9/6/1782; Cox's Company, Prob. 1782 & 1783.
Johnson, Moses, Elk Creek Militia List on 9/6/1782 and on 1782 Elk Creek Militia List.
Rice, John as Lieutenant, on the 1782 Elk Creek Militia List.
Rice, William, on lists of Elk Creek Militia on 9/6/1782 and 1782.
21 Nov. 1786: Read in House committee (NC)
Petition asking for the formation of a new county (Hawkins).
(Signed by among others) James Thompson, Stephen Thompson, Joseph Rogers, John Rice, Joseph Walling, Ritchard Green Sr., Ritchard Green Jr., Isaac Green, Adam Green, Benjamin Green, Wm. Walden son of Joseph, Elisha Walden, John Walden, Wm. Walden son of Thomas, Thomas Walden, Henry Rice Sr., Wm. Rice, John Rice, John Rice Jr., John Walin, John Rice Jr., Hutson Rice, John Rice Sr., George Heard, Will Blevins.
At an election begun and held for the County of Hawkins on the 8th day of March 1790. For a representative to Congress, for the Western District of N. Carolina. Persons in nomination: Wm. Cocke, John Sevier and John Rhea, Esq.
John Cox Robert Kile Joseph Rogers
John Cox Benjamin Looney Thomas Rogers
William Cox John Looney Edward Sizemore
William Cox John Rice Geo. Sizemore
Isaac Green Wm. Roberts Elisha Wallin
Henry Johns
16 Oct 1809: Hawkins Co., TN Deed Book 3, Page 255 - (LDS 0972800)
Richard Green of the state of Kentucky to Isaac Rice of the State of Tennesee and Roane Co. 640 Dollars for "640 Acres of land in the county of Hawkins and state aforesaid laying and being on the south bank of the Clinch River including the mouth of Richarsons Creek.
Signed Richard Green, Henry Green (his mark)
Witnesses: John Thompson, Henry Matlock, Alexander Russell
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* Richard Johnson, author of the above article, descends from Benjamin Green and his wife, Mary. He says: "She was, I suspect, the Mary Rice said to be the daughter of Isaac Rice of Hawkins County, Tenn. I have done a little write up on my Mary and her husband Ben; in addition I have included my transcriptions of various documents from 1758 to 1815
which seem appropriate to Rice research in this area."
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John Olin Rice, Civil War Veteran & Maine Accountant
John Olin Rice (1843-1907) of Portland, Maine, was known as one of the best accountants in New England. The son of Rev. John and Mary Tirrell (Hunt) Rice, he was a descendant of Thomas Rice, who settled in Kittery, ME, under the 1639 charter given by King Charles I to Sir Fernandez Gorges.
Mr. Rice was kin to Mayflower passenger Elder William Brewster, Governor Prince and Assistant Governor Bangs, all of the Plymouth Colony, as well as pre-1650 immigrants of the Millett, Freeman, Hoar and Quincy families. His great-grandfather, Lemuel Rice* of Scarboro, served in the Revolutionary War and his grandfather, George Rice, was a soldier during the War of 1812.
John received his early education in private schools and was tutored by his father. He also attended Yarmouth Academy for three years. Mr. Rice, an expert accountant, said he owed much of his training to his three years in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was an accountant for several banking firms and business houses. He later traveled extensively in both the United States and Europe as an office representative.
Rice was a member of the Portland City Council, the Maine Genealogical Society, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Sons of the American Revolution. John married Sarah J. Merrill in 1861 and they had two daughters, Mrs. Allen Wilson of Concord, NH, and Mrs. Fred H. King of Portland, Maine.
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* There is additional information on Lemuel Rice and this branch of the family in Rice Book 2: The Immigrants (see ordering info at bottom of the page).
SOURCE: The sources for this item on John Olin Rice are two obituaries.
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FOR FELLOW ROOT DIGGERS
& BRANCH CLIMBERS
How Many Ancestors Do You Have?
YOU
HAVE 2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great grandparents
16 gg grandparents
32 ggg grandparents
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2,097,152 ggggggggggggggggggg grandparents
...and this is why so many of us spend so much time on genealogy.
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Rice Family Networking
We have some new readers checking in. Following is a summary of their Rice family connections. If you belong to their branch of the family, please get in touch with them to share genealogical data.
ALABAMA RICE FAMILY
Lisa writes the following:
My ggggrandmother was named Martha Rice, born 1824, AL., married Starling Hopkins in Benton, AL, 1846. Her mother is said to be a Cherokee Indian named Rice from Georgia and her father was Elick Snow from Tenn. I have hit a brick wall, and do not know where to go from here. I have found a gentleman who said she had a sister named Evaline Rice, born 1826, AL, that married a Goree. Any help would be appreciated.
EDITOR'S NOTES:
The 1850 census shows Martha Hopkins, 25, with husband, S. S. Hopkins, 25, living in Subdivision 29, Benton, AL, with a son, John, 2, and a baby, Nancy. She may or may not be the Martha Hopkins who is listed in the 1880 census as a resident of Hokes Bluff in Etowah Co., AL, a widow, age 55, living with a Henry J. Hopkins, 17. Martha said she was born in Alabama, her father in Tennessee and her mother in Georgia. Henry is listed as her son.
The 1850 census shows Emeline/Evaline Goree, age 24, as the wife of Andrew Gery/Goree, 30, living in Subdivision 29, Benton, AL, with children Arminda,4, Sarah, 3, and a baby, Inna.
There were several Snows in Benton in 1850 and one couple is (nearly?) old enough to be Martha's parents. Living in Subdivision 30, Benton, AL, were Dudley Snow, 47, his wife, Priscilla, 42, and, all surnamed Snow, Thomas, 21, George, 20, Henry, 19, James, 17, Clemintine, 14, Mariline, 13, Lucinda, 11, Ruth, 9, Ailsy, 7, Clark, 5, and Alabama, 2. The original is very hard to read, but it appears that Dudley was born in North Carolina and everyone down through James was born in Tennessee, with the youngest ones born in Alabama. Also living in Subdivision 30 were A. Snow, 37, born North Carolina, with his wife, Elizabeth, 21, and a baby, Emma. Living in nearby Jacksonville were Fielding Snow, 43, born in North Carolina, and his wife, Mary G., 38, with children Henry Thomas, 14, Elsey Ann, 12, Mary Emaline, 9, James Albert, 7, Samantha C., 5, John Monger, 2, and a baby, William D. Mary G. was born in Tennessee and all the children were born in Alabama. (The name Fielding appears in the Rice family.)
MISSOURI RICE FAMILY
Debbie Rice Guajardo writes:
I was born on May 3rd, 1968 to Jimmie Lee Rice and Sharon Weaver Rice. My Grandfather was Ralph E. Rice and my grandmother was Victorine Plouvier Rice (immigrated from France to Ellis Island ).
I believe they met and married in Missouri. They had 5 children: Norma Jean, Joyce, Jimmie, Melvin and Dennis. I'm trying to find out other information about this family if I can.
I have found your grandfather, Ralph E. Rice, listed as age 25 in the 1930 census of Kansas City, MO, a son of Sol N. Rice, 53, and his wife Rose, 47. Victorine Rice, 22, listed as daughter-in-law, is living in the same household, as are a Norma J. Rice and a Charles L. Rice, 22. Victorine is listed as born in Kansas, with both of her parents born in France. Ralph and his father were born in Missouri and his mother was born in Kansas. Sol N. Rice says his parents were born in Illinois. However, his wife Rose (Ralph's mother), says both of her parents were born in France, so that makes you much more French than you thought you were.
Victorine, 12, is listed with her parents, Henry, 40, and Louise, 39, in the 1920 census of Washington in Crawford Co., Kansas. Others in the Henry Plouvier family are Henry, 17, Louise, 16, Victor, 13, Adolph, 8, and August, 5. This census says Victorine was born in France and her two younger brothers in Kansas. This was a coal mining community and there are other French families there. I would guess Ralph Rice's mother probably came from there too.
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HARRISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, RICES
My Great-Grandmother was Neva Samantha Rice (1905-1970).
Her father is George W Rice (1871-1938) b. Illinois;
mother is Lillie Ethel Reeves m:1902, Nance, Nebraska
His father is Henry E Rice (1843-1907) b. Harrison Co, Kentucky;
mother is Martha Canady m: 9 Feb 1868, Vermilion, IL
His father is ENOS W. C. Rice (1823-abt 1859) b. Harrison Co, Kentucky;
mother is Elizabeth Culp m: 1842, she is widowed in 1860 census
1850 census lists Henry E, b:1843
John M, b: 1845
Sarah A, b: 1847
James b: 1849
***the only record I find for Enos W.C. Rice is the 1850 census***
1860 census Rebecca Frances b:1852
William b: 1855
George b:1859
EDITOR'S NOTES:
It is interesting that a Jonas Rice, 27, and wife, Elizabeth, 24, are found in the 1850 census for Vermilion Co., IL, but it appears that they are not directly connected to your Enos, even though the given names are so similar. A sidelight: Elizabeth Culp's mother may have been the former Sarah Ravenscraft, in case you don't have that.
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MISSOURI TO OREGON
Julius Jackson Rice was born on 23 dec 1830, he married Elizabeth Mc Clure
in 16 apr. 1857. He was born in Missouri and drfted into oregan. He ran away from home when he was 14 years old, and little is known of him. Could you please tell me any information on his parents? As for his children, he had 3 boys and one girl. My gg grandfather was his son william henry rice, W.H. Rice had 11 children with Avis Myers, first was my great grandfather Romey Rice, and Romeys twin brother Rolley Rice. Romey had one boy, Vern Rice, and Vern had one boy Gregory Rice, then me. Julius Jackson Rice died in Nov of 1893 During a snow storm in Kelowna, BC.
EDITOR'S NOTES:
The Rices most represented in the early days of the Oregon Territory are the descendants of Henry Rice of Tennessee, known as "Henry the Gristmiller". Members of this family played hop-scotch in their westward migration, settling first in Missouri, which was a jumping-off place for the west coast. The name Julius can be found in this family, but dates and other names do not quite match your Julius. Rice Book 3 (see bottom of page for ordering info) had 230 pages devoted to this branch of the Rice family.
The easiest and fastest way for you to find out if you belong to this branch of the Rice family is to have a DNA test done. It's as simple as receiving a kit, taking a Q-tip swab of inside your cheek and returning the kit. Even if you don't belong to the Henry Rice branch, the test may identify which branch you do belong to. For more on the DNA test, contact Bob Rice of the Edmund Rice Association. You can also read about the Rice DNA project.
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SORRY I DIDN'T GET TO ALL OF YOU THIS TIME! ~ Rosemary
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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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BOOK 4: Pennsylvania and Maryland Rice Lineages
This is the next book in the series.
Order books from the Rice Book Project Website.
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(The RICE FAMILY EZINE is sponsored
by the Rice Family Book Project)
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