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VOL.  4, NO.  11  ~ SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

In This Issue
Letter from the Editor: Watch Out for Erroneous Family Trees Online
Introducing Civil War Officer James Clay Rice
Letters to Lincoln: James Rice's Pep Talk to the President
The Daniel Rice Family: Vermont Pioneers
Southern Family Trees: Rice Settlers of the Cumberland Settlements Before Tennessee Statehood
Fun for Root Diggers & Tree Shakers: Dear Ancestor (A Poem)
Rice Items from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Newspaper Clippings, Part 3)
Links & Tips
The Family Circle
 NEXT ISSUE

  

ABRAHAM LINCOLN  

 PART 3

 

Letter to

Lincoln from

Connecticut legislator John S. Rice.

 

   

RICE POLITICIANS

Part 1 of a long list of Rice politicians born before 1900, including some born in the late 1700s, with a smidgin of biographical data for many of them.

 

More newspaper clippings from The Brooklyn Eagle.

 

 

STARTING IN OCTOBER

Your editor is starting the monumental task of cleaning out her Rice files.  Everything that is pitched will be noted in our e~zine.  Among other things, there will be notes on who was researching what families during the 1970s and 1980s.  Some may be stuck where you are and some may have gone further.

 

pen and quill cream 

 

Letter from the Editor

 

Be Careful Copying Data

from Those Online Family Trees

 

Since the pool of new Rice family researchers never runs dry, we cannot repeat this admonition too often:

"Beware, researchers new and old, of those online family trees ."

 

When researchers stumble for the first time upon those online family trees they tend to think they've hit a gold mine.  This is not usually so.  Charles Rice, one of our readers, once wrote this:

"I have seen absolute howlers on ancestry.com trees. Some genius is even claiming descent from my grandfather's brother. Problem is my uncle had no children and lived a decade after the man in the tree died, not to mention having a different wife and being 7 years younger."

 

Thousands of Rice family trees have flourished online. Some need branches sawed off and dead wood removed.  Roughly 70-80% of them contain serious errors.  Why do so many have inaccurate data?  Because family researchers, many of them new genealogists, add their own immediate ancestors, then re-post the altered family tree online. 

 

Documentation is the key.  If an online tree has no documentation, no list of sources, then be warned and beware.  Big question: If there is documentation, does it cover everyone on the tree?

 

Happy Hunting!

                                        Rosemary    

 


BULLETIN FROM YOUR BUMMED OUT EDITOR

 

 I always send a test email to myself before launching your copy of our e~zine. It has happened again! All the stories arrive in my email box underlined.  I don't know if this happens to none, some, or all of you, but it is driving me nuts! I've just spent two hours trying to change it, but nothing works. It is a question of what you see (when I post the stories) is not what you get! I will take this up Monday with Constant Contact, who provides the templates, mailing list control, etc., for our e~zine.  Meanwhile, my apologies if you are receiving our e~zine with everything underlined.  If any of you computer gurus have any suggestions, they would be most welcome!

 

                                                                                    Rosemary (who is very frustrated)

 

 

Introducing James Clay Rice

Rice, Gen. James Clay

 

CIVIL WAR OFFICER

WAS ALSO A

TEACHER & LAWYER 

 

James Clay Rice (1828-1864) of Worthington, Massachusetts, was a teacher in Natchez, Mississippi, worked for a newspaper while studying law and then was a New York City attorney before becoming a Civil War soldier. His first promotion was to captain and he rose through the ranks quickly,  becoming a Brigadier General while still in his 30s.

  

Rice, known by fellow soldiers as "Old Crazy", survived many of the war's major battles, among them the Gettysburg battle, before dying on the battlefield at Spotsylvania, a young man who had accomplished much and had such dazzling potential.
 

Gen. Rice was a descendant of Dea. Edmund Rice, who settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1638. The line is: James (William-6, Joseph-5, Ebenezer-4, Ebenezer-3, Benjamin-2, Edmund-1).  There was a more detailed biography of James Clay Rice in Vol. 2, No. 20 (November, 2009) of The Rice E~zine.

 

The following article tells of his letter to President Abraham Lincoln.

 

  

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 Letters to Lincoln 

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PART 2

 

Correspondence of Gen. James Clay Rice

 

James Clay Rice was but one of dozens of Army colonels when he wrote to President Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 8, 1863, while he was camped with the Army of the Potomac near Falmouth, Virginia.  Yet, his letter must have made an inpression on the war-weary President who was prone to depression.  The letter begins:

"I write to you, to give you hope, confidence, encouragement, faith.  Thousands of soldiers are praying, tonight, in their tents, that God may sustain and support you..."

 

Lincoln LetterMore than 12,000 Union soldiers had been wounded or killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December and the turning point was still five months away on the Gettysburg battlefield. Why was this young officer so optimistic?  Col. Rice explains it this way in the letter:

"This Army will sustain you. I know its pulse. It is feeble, now, and beats slowly, but it is every day growing stronger.  God's object in this war is the destruction of Slavery.  You are the human instrument in accomplishing his purposes...Lead on, as you have led.  The Army will sustain, the people will follow, and God will guide you.  We know how the salvation of this country weighs upon your heart. We know the fearful responsibilities under which you struggle, but be of great courage..." 

 

What do we suppose Lincoln thought of this pep talk? Did he see the sincerity that flowed around the words? It could not readily be seen as an attempt by a young officer to get in good standing with Lincoln to advance his own career.  Nowhere in his letter did Col. Rice say anything about his educated background and his accomplishments.

 

The Lincoln Papers contain two other letters written by Col. Rice, not to President Lincoln, but to cabinet member John P. Usher.  The first, written April 4, 1864, says that Rice, now a Brigadier General, would like to write an article about President Lincoln's kindness to the soldiers.  The second, written May 2, 1864, recommends that President Lincoln invite John Minor Botts to come to Washington.  Botts, like Rice, was a lawyer.  He had served as a Virginia delegate to the U. S. House of Representatives, was a staunch supporter of the Union, refused to fight for either side, and had been arrested by the Confederates and jailed without a trial.  Botts has been quoted as saying "I know no North, no South, no East, no West. I know only my Country, my whole Country, and nothing but my Country." 

 

Only 8 days after writing that second letter the confident and courageous Gen. James Clay Rice died on the Spotsylvania battlefield. 

 

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Source Material:

James Clay Rice to Abraham Lincoln, 1863. Available at Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (Washington, D.C.: American Memory Project, 2000-02); accessed in August, 2011

 

 

IN OUR NEXT ISSUE:  John S. Rice, a Connecticut legislator, sends a recommendation to Abraham Lincoln. 

 

 

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  Daniel Rice, Pioneer Settler of Somerset, Vermont

 
           Bennington1

 THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLE OF BENNINGTON


Bennington2
 

Daniel Rice is said to have fought at the Battle of Bennington (Vermont). His father, Ephraim Rice, fought in the French and Indian War and probably crossed over the Green Mountains of Vermont to fight in skirmishes around Lake Champlain. Ephraim received one of the earliest land grants in the present Windham County, where his sons were pioneer settlers.

 

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Introduction

Two women, Abby Marie Hemenway and Carrie E. H. Page, compiled, and in 1891 published, Vol. V of The Vermont Historical Gazette: A Local History of All the Towns in the State. This volume included the towns in Windham County.  Under the section for Somerset, Vermont, was given this notation: "It appears from a letter I have just received from Mr. George E. Rice of West Dover, there was one soldier in the revolution from Somerset, Mr. Rice's grandfather, but the letter tells its own story."  Following is that letter, more Rice info from the above cited book, then some notes your editor has prepared on this family.

 

THE LETTER 

  

"The first settler in Somerset was Daniel Rice, my grandfather. In 1776, he settled on the farm I now own; his nearest neighbor was in Wilmington, about 7 miles. He built himself a shanty and kept bachelor hall for two or three years.

 

"He came from Hardwick, Mass. In 1777, he was at Wilmington after his weekly supply of provision(s), when he heard that the British army was marching towards Bennington. Went back to his shanty, took his gun and what ammunition he had, and crossed the Green Mountain through the wilder­ness and was in the battle of Ben­nington, Aug. 16, 1777. Was in the army three months, then went to Hardwick, Mass., and stayed through the winter.

 

"The next spring he returned to Somerset, and two of his brothers with him, Percy and Simeon. Percy purchased a large tract of land, part of it in Somerset and part in what was then Wardsboro. He built in Wardsboro on the farm now occupied by Abel Johnson. He was killed by the caving in of a well he was digging near his house.

 

"Daniel Rice married Sally Ball from New Bradford (sic), Mass., in 1778, built a log house in which he lived six years, then built a framed house; went on horse back to Greenfield, Mass., after his nails, which were made by hand; the clapboard(s) were split and shaved.

 

"His children were: Daniel, Hazelton, David, Ephraim, Ashur, Susanah, Melinthy and Sally.

 

"Daniel Rice's first purchase of land was 670 acres, for which he paid $640. He afterwards purchased several hundred acres of Col. Hazeltine (Hazelton) and ran in debt for it, which caused him trouble. He was to pay for it in cattle and sheep; a mad dog bit 20 of his cattle; they went mad and died; he was unable to meet his payments. Col. Hazeltine got a writ out against his body and sent a sheriff from Windsor to serve it. Mr. Rice heard of it and avoid­ed him by staying on the mountain west of his house the most of the time one summer. Burton was watching for him the most of the time for six months. On one occasion some of the boys saw him looking around in the woods near the house. Daniel, the oldest son, dressed himself in his father's clothes and started for the woods. Burton saw him and gave chase. Daniel managed to run around a deep mire or stump hole. Burton rushed for him, and went into the mud hole; he had consid­erable difficulty in extricating himself. When he came out he was covered with mud and slime. Daniel stood by and asked him what he was in there for; what he was after. He tried to get a clean suit to wear home, but failed, and went as he was. Never came back to serve his writ. The suit was settled by the Colonel giving Mr. Rice a longer time to make his payments.

 

"I do not know why this town was called Somerset. Daniel Rice first settled and built a log house upon the great meadow. A heavy fall of rain caused the river to rise and overflow the meadow some two or three feet. Mrs. Rice and children were there alone. But Mr. Rice hastened home and with a horse brought them out safely.

 

"A saw and grist mill was built at the lower end of the meadow, but was not kept running a great length of time. Daniel Rice in a few years moved over upon the east side of the town where he lived to a good old age and died there. His son Ephraim lived upon the same farm and died there. George E. Rice, his son, now lives on the farm.

 

"No post office was ever established in Somerset until 1870. At the setting of Congress in December, 1869 a petition was sent the postmaster general to establish a post office in Somerset, and the department did establish a special post office in Somerset, Windham County, Vt. and appointed Hollis Town, Jr. postmaster."

 

THE RICE BROTHERS IN SOMERSET

  

This history of Windham County, Vermont, gives the following information on members of this Rice family.  (The genealogical information below helps sort out the relationships, which are spread over at least three generations. Beware: The same given names are repeated, i.e., not all the Daniel Rices are the same man.)  

 

Daniel: A Daniel Rice held the office of town clerk in 1800, 1802, 1803, 1804 and 1813; a Daniel Rice was town treasurer in 1800 and 1802; a Daniel Rice represented the town of Somerset on the state level between 1799 and 1802; Daniel Rice was town constable in 1793, 1798 and 1799; Daniel Rice Jr. was constable in 1809.

 

Ephraim: An Ephraim Rice was town clerk from 1839 to 1850; an Ephraim Rice represented the town for 1826, 1835, 1836, 1839-1845, and in 1847, 1849 and 1853.

 

George E. Rice was constable  1842-1846, and again in  1852-1855.

 

Hazelton: A Hazelton Rice was town clerk  in 1819-20, 1824, 1833, 1837 and 1838; a Hazelton Rice was town treasurer in 1822, 1823, 1824, 1832, 1833, 1837 and 1851; Hazelton Rice represented the town in 1821 and 1846; Hazelton Rice Jr. represented the town in 1859-1860; Hazelton Rice was constable in 1813; Hazelton Rice Jr. was constable 1859-1860. 

 

John: A John Rice was town clerk in 1817-1818; John Rice was constable in 1811.

 

J. W. Rice was town clerk and treasurer in 1891; J. W. Rice represented the town in 1890.

 

Perez (also referred to as "Percy"): A Percy Rice was town treasurer in 1793, 1794 and 1796; Percy Rice was constable in 1792.

 

Thomas: A Thomas Rice held the office of town clerk in 1807, 1808 and 1809; Thomas Rice was constable in 1814. 

 

THE RICE GENEALOGY

 

Daniel Rice was the son of Ephraim Rice, who was born March 14, 1729 at Sutton, Massachusetts. Ephraim is said to have srved in the French and Indian Wars and lived at Hardwick, Massachusetts in 1765. He is listed as a grantee of land in Somerset, Vermont, but may have never lived there. According to Andrew H. Ward's 1858 Genealogical History of the Rice Family, Ephraim supposedly took a herd of horses to South Carolina, was never heard from, and it was assumed that he had been murdered.  This does not easily jibe with Ward's statement that he, Ephraim, was still living in 1804, when he reportedly was named in the will of his son, Perez Rice.  Ephraim was the son of Perez and Lydia Rice, who had moved from Westboro to Sutton about 1732. Lydia died there in 1793 at age 92, according to Ward's account.  Daniel's Rice line is Daniel (Ephraim-5, Perez-4, Thomas-3, Thomas-2, Edmund-1).  Edmund Rice, the immigrant from England, settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1638.

 

Ephraim and his wife (maiden name unknown) had these children, who were probably all born at Hardwick, Massachusetts:

 

1. SIMEON RICE, went to Vermont with his brothers Daniel and Perez. His will is dated in 1804.

 

2. DANIEL RICE (subject of the letter quoted above), born Aug. 5, 1755; married Sally Ball June 19, 1782; he died Aug. 28, 1831 at Somerset, Vermont. Sally, the daughter of David and Sarah (Badcock) Ball, was born Feb. 10, 1764 at New Bedford, Massachusetts, and died Feb. 13, 1838 at Somerset, Vermont.  She and Daniel are buried in Mountain View Cemetery at Somerset, Vermont. Children (born at Somerset, Vermont):

  1. Daniel Rice Jr., born Feb. 11, 1783
  2. Susannah Rice, born Nov. 25, 1784; married Cyril Lawton/Laughton
  3. Jemime/Jemima Rice, born Feb. 15, 1787, and died young.
  4. Hazelton Rice, born Feb. 26, 1788; died Aug. 15, 1870. He was named for his father's commanding officer during the Revolutionary War. Hazelton married Rhoda Stone April 9, 1809. The daughter of Jonathan and Chloe Stone, she was born Dec. 11, 1782 and diedAug. 14, 1846. Their children (born at Somerset, Vermont):
    1. Hiram Watkins Rice, b. Dec. 24, 1810; m. Maria Chase.  (Their children: Hiram A. & Meline.) 
    2. Nancy R. Rice, b. April 17, 1813; m. Levi Snow Jr. (Children: Henriette, Fayette, Annette, Jannette, Juliet, Leavitt, Dewitt & Julian.)
    3. Melintha Rice, b. Feb. 24, 1817; m. Oliver Pike (Children: Irena M.&  Lewis H.)
    4. Sally Rice, b. Jan. 23, 1821; m. James Alger (Children: Emma & James)
    5. Hazelton Rice Jr., b. Dec. 9, 1822; m. Esther Smith (Children: Newell & Mary E.)
    6. Lewis H. Rice, b. June 29, 1826; d. Feb. 2, 1831. (There are records about this family in the Dover, Vt., library.)
  5. David Rice, born March 3 (or 4), 1790; died May 12, 1872, W. Dover, Vt. He married Meribah Cobb, daughter of Nathan and Sally (Palmer) Cobb on Jan. 11, 1816. She was born March 7, 1790 and died Dec. 23, 1867. Children (born W. Dover, Vt.):
    1. Martin Rice, who died in infancy
    2. Laurinda Rice, b. Oct. 6, 1817; m. Daniel Hill (Children: Sumner E., Ozro, Elvina M., Melissa R.) 
    3. Chester Rice, b. Sept. 9, 1819; m. Mary E. Negus (Children: Helen E., Alice F., Wallace N., Francis E.) 
    4. Martin Rice, b. ca. 1821; d. March 9, 1854
    5. Sarah Rice, b. May 28, 1833; d. July 7, 1864
  6. Ephraim Rice, born Feb. 20, 1792; died April 20, 1859, Wilmington (W. Dover), Vt. He married Virtue Johnson, daughter of Joab and Jemima (Ball) Johnson, on Sept. 11, 1814. She was born April 13, 1793, and died June 2, 1854. They lived at Somerset and Brattleboro, Vt. Their children:
    1. Elvira Rice, b. May 18, 1816; m. Alexander H. Pike (Children: Philetus F., Lomira G., Viola A., Brenda E.)
    2. George Rice, b. Dec. 18, 1818; d. Jan. 1, 1820
    3. George Emory Rice. b. Nov. 14, 1820; m. Eliza Ann Mills (Children: Duane H., Ellen A Josephine M., Justine E., Henry E., Abbie V., George G., Lewis C., Eri J.)
    4. Daniel Hazelton Rice, b. Aug. 17, 1822; m. 1) Arminda Calista Yeaw & 2) Eveline Holden (Children of Daniel & Arminda: Mary E. & Gilbert H.; children of Daniel & Eveline: Eugene & John D.)
    5. Ephraim Emerson Rice, b. Jan. 31, 1824; m. Mary Yeaw ( Child: Alice C.)
    6. Hosea Johnson Rice, b. Oct. 8, 1825; d. Dec. 31, 1830
    7. Arvilla Lucretia Rice, b. Oct. 2, 1827; d. Feb. 22, 1839
    8. Levi Henry Rice, b. March 15, 1829; m. Malvina E. Cobb (as her first husband) (Children: Sherman L. & Calista T.)
    9. Chester Curtis Rice, b. Oct. 29, 1831; m. Mary A. Parsons (Children: Laura M. & Sadie V.)
    10. Sherman Delos Rice, b. Nov. 26, 1833; m. Malvina E. (Cobb) Rice, his brother Levi's wife, as her second husband 
    11. William Clark Rice, b. April 22, 1837; m. 1) Philura Fessenden & 2) Mary Chance (Child of William & Philura: Flora M.; children of William & Mary: Blanche M. & Guy L.)
  7. Perez Rice born Jan. 8, 1794; married Hannah Moore
  8. Melinthy Rice, born March 26, 1796; died Dec. 10, 1816, unmarried
  9. Sally Rice, born May 29, 1798; married Luther Cobb. They may have moved to Connecticut. They had five children born at Somerset, Vt.: Amy, Asher, Francis, Sally and Mary
  10. Ashur W. Rice, born March 2, 1802; died Nov. 29, 1819, unmarried 

3. PEREZ RICE, born May 1, 1757; married Chloe Lincoln

 

4. SUSANAH RICE, who married (Stephen?) Watkins (in 1789?)

 

5. JOHN RICE, who died before May 31, 1804 

 

Note: Somerset, Vermont is now W. Dover, Vermont. 

 

 

 

Southern gentleman

 

SOUTHERN FAMILY TREES

  

Rices in the Cumberland Settlements

Before Tennessee Was a State

 

  
INTRODUCTION
 

The following information is from Richard Carlton Fulcher's 1987 book, The Cumberland Settlements, which has come to be known as the stand-in for non-existing Tennessee census records for the late 1700s. The book is available from both Amazon and Google.

 

North Carolina first called all the settlements to its west Washington County, then in 1783 the North Carolina legislature created Davidson County and named it for William Lee Davidson, a North Carolina officer who died during the Revolutionary War. Nashville, the county seat, is also the oldest permanent white settlement in Middle Tennessee. The Cumberland settlements were in Davidson, Sumner and Tennessee Counties in what later became the State of Tennessee.

 

The earliest surviving Federal population records for this region are the 1810 census of Rutherford County and an incomplete 1820 census of Tennessee.

 

The first settlers arrived at the French Lick about 1779, almost 40 years before the first serious attempt of the U. S. government to record them.

 

The following Rices are given in Fulcher's compilation, in which he has extracted from such public records as wills, deeds, court minutes, marriage records and military records, all the references made to these Tennessee pioneers between 1770 and 1790.

 

RICES IN THE CUMBERLAND SETTLEMENTS

 

Allen Rice was defendant in a suit brought by Samuel Allen before the Superior Court session held in Nashville, Nov., 1790.

 

Elisha Rice, son of John Rice* and brother of Joel, Nathan and William H. Rice; defendant in court case, Nov., 1790

 

James Rice witnessed the will of Michael Shavin, Feb. 11, 1789

 

Joel Rice, son of John Rice* and brother of Elisha, Nathan and William H. Rice; purchased land from the Sheriff; Summoned for Davidson Co. jury duty, Nov., 1788; gave power of attorney to brother Elisha for matters of their inheritance.

 

John Rice (under James Moore, signer of the Cumberland Contract). "He died ca. 1788 and his partner John Rice took over his affairs."

 

John Rice, defendant in lawsuit brought by John Montgomery for slander and dismissed by plaintiff, July, 1783. He was killed by Indians Jan. 7, 1791/92 "at Red River". "His son Joel Rice executed a power of attorney to his brother Elisha Rice in July, 1794 'for the conveyance of land inherited from father, John Rice.'"

 

William H. Rice, son of John Rice*.

 

Also listed were men named Rice Potter and Rice Curtis.

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Editor's Notes: 

*Either author Fulcher or one of his sources seems to have erred in giving the family relationships. The John Rice killed by Indians is not known to have had any children. His will leaves everything to his brothers and sisters. The father of all these brothers was Thomas Rice, who lived in Caswell County, North Carolina.  (Note: At least two Thomas Rices were contemporaries in Caswell Co.)

 

The John Rice who accumulated vast acreage around the present Nashville was fairly well known in his time. An article about him and how his brothers tried to settle his estate amidst decades of legal battles, plus a list of John's many nieces and nephews and their families, is in Rice Book Three: Tennessee Rice Lineages. An article about Joel Rice, his attendance at the North Carolina Constitutional Convention, and data on his descendants, including many who settled in Alabama, is found in Rice Book 1: Celebrating Our Diversity. Readers who are interested in obtaining these books may contact the editor.

 

 

 

 

 

FUN FOR FAMILY ROOT DIGGERS

AND TREE SHAKERS

  

DEAR ANCESTOR:

YOUR TOMBSTONE STANDS AMONG THE REST

NEGLECTED AND ALONE

THE NAME AND DATE ERODED FROM

THE WEATHERED MARBLE STONE.

IT REACHES OUT TO ALL WHO CARE

IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO MOURN.

YOU DID NOT KNOW THAT I'D EXIST

YOU DIED BEFORE I WAS BORN.

YET EACH OF US ARE CELLS OF YOU

IN FLESH, IN BLOOD, IN BONE.

OUR HEARTS CONTRACT AND BEAT A PULSE

ENTIRELY NOT OUR OWN.

DEAR ANCESTOR, THE PLACE YOU FILLED

SOME HUNDRED YEARS AGO

SPREADS OUT AMONG THE ONES YOU LEFT

WHO WOULD HAVE LOVED YOU SO.

I WONDER HOW YOU LIVED AND LOVED

I WONDER IF YOU KNEW

THAT SOMEDAY I WOULD FIND THIS PLACE

AND COME TO VISIT YOU.


~  Anonymous Author
 

 

 

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RICE ITEMS FROM THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE

 

About this series... 

 

For the rest of this year we will be adding on to the end of each e~zine copies of old newspaper stories about Rice family members.  Although they are from The Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle, they often concern Rices from various regions of the United States.

 

 Part 3

 

March 7, 1901

 

 Brooklyn Eagle 

Ruptured2

 

 

June 29, 1900

 Alimony

 

October 27, 1899

 Shooting head2

 shooting

shooting2

shooting letter

 shooting follo letter

 shooting next

next2

 shooting final

 

 

April 8, 1898

 

 lunatic

 lunatic2

 

(Editor's Note: Did I read this right --was the word really

 "lunatic"--and at least 9 of them were Rices?

  Anyone care to  comment or shed light on this?)

 

 

 March 22, 1896

 

 Art Gallery

(snipped by editor) 

 

 

July 14, 1896

 

  Events

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

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