Residences:
1782 Montgomery County, VA (property & land documents)
1793 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1793 Signed Petition to form Tazewell County, VA (Also George, William & Elijah Rice)
1794 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1795 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1796 Signed Petition to form Tazewell County, VA (Also William & Elijah Rice)
1797 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1798 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1800 Kanawha County, VA (land sale document)
1801 Kanawha County, VA (tax list)
1802 Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio (tax records)
1806 Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio (historical account)
1810 Gallia County, Ohio (tax list)
1812,1818, and 1819 Gallia County, Ohio (tax list)
1820 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
1830 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
1840 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
Per Ohio Tax Records, James Rice was living in Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio in 1802. He appears along with Ezekiel and Elijah Rice. In 1802, Belpre Township comprised the territory south of townships Waterford and Marietta and north of Gallipolis (Court of Quarter Sessions 1797). Part of that land latter became Gallia County, Ohio in 1803.
Was supposedly 120 years old at death? Sources: Gallipolis Journal, 8 Aug 1839; 1840 Federal Census, Greenfield Township, Gallia County, OH (written comment), Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volumes 23 and 24, Page 327 by Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Published 1841, and Niles National Register, by Jeremiah Hughes, on page 288 (see note at bottom of bio).
First Wife: Elliner (Elinor)(Eliner)
Reported Children:
Note: On Ancestry.Com Family Trees there is frequent reference to a son, James William Rice, b: 1752/53 d: 1827, Gallia County, OH. There is no documentation that said individual ever exited and there is definitely no evidence that he was ever in Gallia County or Ohio and definitely did no die in Gallia County in 1827.
William Rice, b: 1756 d: After 1850 [1850 Fed Census, District 1, Carter, KY, Wm. Rice, age 94.] He is the son mentioned in the 1839, Gallipolis Journal entry as living and 83 yrs old in 1839.
Hannah Rice, b: 1760 d: Sept 1859; FAG # 21026746
Thomas Sherrod Rice, b: 1770
Sarah Rice, b: 1774/5 m: Alexander Beavers, Jr., 17 Dec 1792, Montgomery County, VA; FAG # 16960241
Elijah Rice, b: 1775
Jeremiah Rice, b: 1776 d: about 1830, Bloom, Scioto, OH [See 1830 Fed Census, Scioto, Ohio]. Note there was a Jeremiah Rice in the 1840 Fed Census, Madison, Jackson, OH, however, he is younger than 1830 Jeremiah Rice. Second Jeremiah Rice is son of Ezekiel L. Rice, KY moved to Potosí, Linn, KS 1870 Fed Census.
Ezekiel L. Rice, b: 1777/78
Birth: abt 1778, Virginia
Death: 6 May 1862, Carter County, KY
Parents: James Rice & Eliner Rice (taken from death record); FAG # 112340536
George Washington Rice, b: abt 1780 d. 1850; FAG # 100289633
Polly Rice, b: 1780
Second Wife: Mary (see note 3 below for Mary).
Old James was married to "Mary" Rice from prior to 1801 thru 1832. His and her names appears on two land sale deeds; 1801 in Tazewell, VA and 1832 in Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio. Both sales were to Lamberts; very probably close relatives.
Reported Children:
Mary Rice, b: 1787/1792 m: Pearsall Lambert (13 Feb 1811); FAG # 113156106
Old James & Mary Rice sold property (80 acres) on 11/14/1832 in Gallia County, Ohio to Pearsall Lambert (daughter Mary's husband)for a token sum of ONE dollar.
James Rice, b: 1795 d: 1874; FAG # 39861495
Source:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shastablue&id=I14179
Notes:
1. 1839, Aug. 8. Gallipolis Journal: James Rice of Greenfield Twp. Gallia County, Ohio was 116 years old last June. His health is good, and he still retains strength sufficient to walk about without assistance. He has a son living, who is 83 years of age.
2. Census: 1840 Gallia, Ohio, states birth date as Aug. 24, 1724 in good health written across census line. (Was 116 years old on 24 Aug 1840). [See Original Census Document 1840, James Rice, Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio]
3. Mary Rice: Based on 1830 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia, OH, Mary was between 80-89 years of age. That means she was born between 1741-1750. This wife, Mary's name, appears as James's wife on both the 1801 and 1832 land sales. Mary does not appear with James in the 1840 Fed Census. It is presumed she deceased sometime between 1832 and 1840.
Posted by Sandra Salyers
To: < [email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Rice-Southern-L] RICE in Montgomery/Grayson pre-1790
A James Rice and Robert Bristco/Frisco had a large land holding in the area of Montgomery, Wythe, Tazewell County, Virginia called the James Rice Robert Frisco improvement. A number of land sales from this improvement are listed
in the court record books of Montgomery, Wythe and Tazewell Counties. James and his wife Mary sold their land in Virginia and moved to Gallia County, Ohio in their later years. James is listed in the 1840 census as 116 years old in good health. This was so unusual that the census taker wrote it across the line from James' name. A Gallia County News paper mentioned his longevity a couple of years later. The last Virginia land sale I have listed is to their grandson Jeremiah Lambert for a token price. They spent their last few years of life in Gallia County with the off spring of their daughter Hannah who married Job Lambert. Some of the children of this Rice-Lambert related family migrated to Carter and Lawrence County Kentucky in the early 1800's.
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History of Gallia County, H.H. Hardesty & Co., Publishers, Chicago and Toledo, 1882, Page XXIII.
GREENFIELD TOWNSHIP.
The first to settle in the township were Daniel Faulkner, James Rice (who died at the advanced age of one hundred and twenty years), and Andrew Faulkner. On the 22d of June, 1882, the latter gave an account of his early pioneer recollections to the one appointed to collect and record them for this work, and four days later he had "passed beyond the river," dying suddenly June 26th, 1882. The pioneers first settled at the forks of Symmes creek, Daniel Faulkner building the first cabin, in 1806.
Footnote: Daniel Faulkner also appears on the Kanawha County, VA Personal Property Tax list for 1801.
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DNA testing has placed this James Rice in Group 5 of the Rice YDNA Project. DNA testing has established a very close association of descendants of William, Ezekiel, George Washington, and James Rice, Jr. Ezekiel's death record in 1862 identifies James and Eliner as parents. Old James, William, Elijah, Ezekiel,Jeremiah and George Rice frequently appear on the same county documents in VA and Ohio. Job Lambert a supposed son-in-law also appears on Kanawha County Personal Property records (1801, 1802, and 1806).
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Date of Birth and age comes from Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 59, September 1840 – March 1841, Printed by the Editor: Jeremiah Hughes, Baltimore, MD, page 288 which states "Longevity: There is a man living in Greenfield Township, Gallia County, Ohio by the name of James Rice who was 116 years old on the 24th of April last and yet bids fair to add some years to the days of his earthly pilgrimage."
Gallipolis Journal, 8 Aug 1839, states he has a son 83 years old still living. (This probably just implies that his oldest son was still living.) That would have been "William", born 1756.
1782 Montgomery County, VA (property & land documents)
1793 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1793 Signed Petition to form Tazewell County, VA (Also George, William & Elijah Rice)
1794 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1795 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1796 Signed Petition to form Tazewell County, VA (Also William & Elijah Rice)
1797 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1798 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1800 Kanawha County, VA (land sale document)
1801 Kanawha County, VA (tax list)
1802 Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio (tax records)
1806 Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio (historical account)
1810 Gallia County, Ohio (tax list)
1812,1818, and 1819 Gallia County, Ohio (tax list)
1820 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
1830 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
1840 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
Per Ohio Tax Records, James Rice was living in Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio in 1802. He appears along with Ezekiel and Elijah Rice. In 1802, Belpre Township comprised the territory south of townships Waterford and Marietta and north of Gallipolis (Court of Quarter Sessions 1797). Part of that land latter became Gallia County, Ohio in 1803.
Was supposedly 120 years old at death? Sources: Gallipolis Journal, 8 Aug 1839; 1840 Federal Census, Greenfield Township, Gallia County, OH (written comment), Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volumes 23 and 24, Page 327 by Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Published 1841, and Niles National Register, by Jeremiah Hughes, on page 288 (see note at bottom of bio).
First Wife: Elliner (Elinor)(Eliner)
Reported Children:
Note: On Ancestry.Com Family Trees there is frequent reference to a son, James William Rice, b: 1752/53 d: 1827, Gallia County, OH. There is no documentation that said individual ever exited and there is definitely no evidence that he was ever in Gallia County or Ohio and definitely did no die in Gallia County in 1827.
William Rice, b: 1756 d: After 1850 [1850 Fed Census, District 1, Carter, KY, Wm. Rice, age 94.] He is the son mentioned in the 1839, Gallipolis Journal entry as living and 83 yrs old in 1839.
Hannah Rice, b: 1760 d: Sept 1859; FAG # 21026746
Thomas Sherrod Rice, b: 1770
Sarah Rice, b: 1774/5 m: Alexander Beavers, Jr., 17 Dec 1792, Montgomery County, VA; FAG # 16960241
Elijah Rice, b: 1775
Jeremiah Rice, b: 1776 d: about 1830, Bloom, Scioto, OH [See 1830 Fed Census, Scioto, Ohio]. Note there was a Jeremiah Rice in the 1840 Fed Census, Madison, Jackson, OH, however, he is younger than 1830 Jeremiah Rice. Second Jeremiah Rice is son of Ezekiel L. Rice, KY moved to Potosí, Linn, KS 1870 Fed Census.
Ezekiel L. Rice, b: 1777/78
Birth: abt 1778, Virginia
Death: 6 May 1862, Carter County, KY
Parents: James Rice & Eliner Rice (taken from death record); FAG # 112340536
George Washington Rice, b: abt 1780 d. 1850; FAG # 100289633
Polly Rice, b: 1780
Second Wife: Mary (see note 3 below for Mary).
Old James was married to "Mary" Rice from prior to 1801 thru 1832. His and her names appears on two land sale deeds; 1801 in Tazewell, VA and 1832 in Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio. Both sales were to Lamberts; very probably close relatives.
Reported Children:
Mary Rice, b: 1787/1792 m: Pearsall Lambert (13 Feb 1811); FAG # 113156106
Old James & Mary Rice sold property (80 acres) on 11/14/1832 in Gallia County, Ohio to Pearsall Lambert (daughter Mary's husband)for a token sum of ONE dollar.
James Rice, b: 1795 d: 1874; FAG # 39861495
Source:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shastablue&id=I14179
Notes:
1. 1839, Aug. 8. Gallipolis Journal: James Rice of Greenfield Twp. Gallia County, Ohio was 116 years old last June. His health is good, and he still retains strength sufficient to walk about without assistance. He has a son living, who is 83 years of age.
2. Census: 1840 Gallia, Ohio, states birth date as Aug. 24, 1724 in good health written across census line. (Was 116 years old on 24 Aug 1840). [See Original Census Document 1840, James Rice, Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio]
3. Mary Rice: Based on 1830 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia, OH, Mary was between 80-89 years of age. That means she was born between 1741-1750. This wife, Mary's name, appears as James's wife on both the 1801 and 1832 land sales. Mary does not appear with James in the 1840 Fed Census. It is presumed she deceased sometime between 1832 and 1840.
Posted by Sandra Salyers
To: < [email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Rice-Southern-L] RICE in Montgomery/Grayson pre-1790
A James Rice and Robert Bristco/Frisco had a large land holding in the area of Montgomery, Wythe, Tazewell County, Virginia called the James Rice Robert Frisco improvement. A number of land sales from this improvement are listed
in the court record books of Montgomery, Wythe and Tazewell Counties. James and his wife Mary sold their land in Virginia and moved to Gallia County, Ohio in their later years. James is listed in the 1840 census as 116 years old in good health. This was so unusual that the census taker wrote it across the line from James' name. A Gallia County News paper mentioned his longevity a couple of years later. The last Virginia land sale I have listed is to their grandson Jeremiah Lambert for a token price. They spent their last few years of life in Gallia County with the off spring of their daughter Hannah who married Job Lambert. Some of the children of this Rice-Lambert related family migrated to Carter and Lawrence County Kentucky in the early 1800's.
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History of Gallia County, H.H. Hardesty & Co., Publishers, Chicago and Toledo, 1882, Page XXIII.
GREENFIELD TOWNSHIP.
The first to settle in the township were Daniel Faulkner, James Rice (who died at the advanced age of one hundred and twenty years), and Andrew Faulkner. On the 22d of June, 1882, the latter gave an account of his early pioneer recollections to the one appointed to collect and record them for this work, and four days later he had "passed beyond the river," dying suddenly June 26th, 1882. The pioneers first settled at the forks of Symmes creek, Daniel Faulkner building the first cabin, in 1806.
Footnote: Daniel Faulkner also appears on the Kanawha County, VA Personal Property Tax list for 1801.
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DNA testing has placed this James Rice in Group 5 of the Rice YDNA Project. DNA testing has established a very close association of descendants of William, Ezekiel, George Washington, and James Rice, Jr. Ezekiel's death record in 1862 identifies James and Eliner as parents. Old James, William, Elijah, Ezekiel,Jeremiah and George Rice frequently appear on the same county documents in VA and Ohio. Job Lambert a supposed son-in-law also appears on Kanawha County Personal Property records (1801, 1802, and 1806).
---
Date of Birth and age comes from Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 59, September 1840 – March 1841, Printed by the Editor: Jeremiah Hughes, Baltimore, MD, page 288 which states "Longevity: There is a man living in Greenfield Township, Gallia County, Ohio by the name of James Rice who was 116 years old on the 24th of April last and yet bids fair to add some years to the days of his earthly pilgrimage."
Gallipolis Journal, 8 Aug 1839, states he has a son 83 years old still living. (This probably just implies that his oldest son was still living.) That would have been "William", born 1756.
Residences:
1782 Montgomery County, VA (property & land documents)
1793 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1793 Signed Petition to form Tazewell County, VA (Also George, William & Elijah Rice)
1794 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1795 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1796 Signed Petition to form Tazewell County, VA (Also William & Elijah Rice)
1797 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1798 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1800 Kanawha County, VA (land sale document)
1801 Kanawha County, VA (tax list)
1802 Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio (tax records)
1806 Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio (historical account)
1810 Gallia County, Ohio (tax list)
1812,1818, and 1819 Gallia County, Ohio (tax list)
1820 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
1830 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
1840 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
Per Ohio Tax Records, James Rice was living in Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio in 1802. He appears along with Ezekiel and Elijah Rice. In 1802, Belpre Township comprised the territory south of townships Waterford and Marietta and north of Gallipolis (Court of Quarter Sessions 1797). Part of that land latter became Gallia County, Ohio in 1803.
Was supposedly 120 years old at death? Sources: Gallipolis Journal, 8 Aug 1839; 1840 Federal Census, Greenfield Township, Gallia County, OH (written comment), Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volumes 23 and 24, Page 327 by Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Published 1841, and Niles National Register, by Jeremiah Hughes, on page 288 (see note at bottom of bio).
First Wife: Elliner (Elinor)(Eliner)
Reported Children:
Note: On Ancestry.Com Family Trees there is frequent reference to a son, James William Rice, b: 1752/53 d: 1827, Gallia County, OH. There is no documentation that said individual ever exited and there is definitely no evidence that he was ever in Gallia County or Ohio and definitely did no die in Gallia County in 1827.
William Rice, b: 1756 d: After 1850 [1850 Fed Census, District 1, Carter, KY, Wm. Rice, age 94.] He is the son mentioned in the 1839, Gallipolis Journal entry as living and 83 yrs old in 1839.
Hannah Rice, b: 1760 d: Sept 1859; FAG # 21026746
Thomas Sherrod Rice, b: 1770
Sarah Rice, b: 1774/5 m: Alexander Beavers, Jr., 17 Dec 1792, Montgomery County, VA; FAG # 16960241
Elijah Rice, b: 1775
Jeremiah Rice, b: 1776 d: about 1830, Bloom, Scioto, OH [See 1830 Fed Census, Scioto, Ohio]. Note there was a Jeremiah Rice in the 1840 Fed Census, Madison, Jackson, OH, however, he is younger than 1830 Jeremiah Rice. Second Jeremiah Rice is son of Ezekiel L. Rice, KY moved to Potosí, Linn, KS 1870 Fed Census.
Ezekiel L. Rice, b: 1777/78
Birth: abt 1778, Virginia
Death: 6 May 1862, Carter County, KY
Parents: James Rice & Eliner Rice (taken from death record); FAG # 112340536
George Washington Rice, b: abt 1780 d. 1850; FAG # 100289633
Polly Rice, b: 1780
Second Wife: Mary (see note 3 below for Mary).
Old James was married to "Mary" Rice from prior to 1801 thru 1832. His and her names appears on two land sale deeds; 1801 in Tazewell, VA and 1832 in Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio. Both sales were to Lamberts; very probably close relatives.
Reported Children:
Mary Rice, b: 1787/1792 m: Pearsall Lambert (13 Feb 1811); FAG # 113156106
Old James & Mary Rice sold property (80 acres) on 11/14/1832 in Gallia County, Ohio to Pearsall Lambert (daughter Mary's husband)for a token sum of ONE dollar.
James Rice, b: 1795 d: 1874; FAG # 39861495
Source:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shastablue&id=I14179
Notes:
1. 1839, Aug. 8. Gallipolis Journal: James Rice of Greenfield Twp. Gallia County, Ohio was 116 years old last June. His health is good, and he still retains strength sufficient to walk about without assistance. He has a son living, who is 83 years of age.
2. Census: 1840 Gallia, Ohio, states birth date as Aug. 24, 1724 in good health written across census line. (Was 116 years old on 24 Aug 1840). [See Original Census Document 1840, James Rice, Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio]
3. Mary Rice: Based on 1830 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia, OH, Mary was between 80-89 years of age. That means she was born between 1741-1750. This wife, Mary's name, appears as James's wife on both the 1801 and 1832 land sales. Mary does not appear with James in the 1840 Fed Census. It is presumed she deceased sometime between 1832 and 1840.
Posted by Sandra Salyers
To: < [email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Rice-Southern-L] RICE in Montgomery/Grayson pre-1790
A James Rice and Robert Bristco/Frisco had a large land holding in the area of Montgomery, Wythe, Tazewell County, Virginia called the James Rice Robert Frisco improvement. A number of land sales from this improvement are listed
in the court record books of Montgomery, Wythe and Tazewell Counties. James and his wife Mary sold their land in Virginia and moved to Gallia County, Ohio in their later years. James is listed in the 1840 census as 116 years old in good health. This was so unusual that the census taker wrote it across the line from James' name. A Gallia County News paper mentioned his longevity a couple of years later. The last Virginia land sale I have listed is to their grandson Jeremiah Lambert for a token price. They spent their last few years of life in Gallia County with the off spring of their daughter Hannah who married Job Lambert. Some of the children of this Rice-Lambert related family migrated to Carter and Lawrence County Kentucky in the early 1800's.
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History of Gallia County, H.H. Hardesty & Co., Publishers, Chicago and Toledo, 1882, Page XXIII.
GREENFIELD TOWNSHIP.
The first to settle in the township were Daniel Faulkner, James Rice (who died at the advanced age of one hundred and twenty years), and Andrew Faulkner. On the 22d of June, 1882, the latter gave an account of his early pioneer recollections to the one appointed to collect and record them for this work, and four days later he had "passed beyond the river," dying suddenly June 26th, 1882. The pioneers first settled at the forks of Symmes creek, Daniel Faulkner building the first cabin, in 1806.
Footnote: Daniel Faulkner also appears on the Kanawha County, VA Personal Property Tax list for 1801.
---
DNA testing has placed this James Rice in Group 5 of the Rice YDNA Project. DNA testing has established a very close association of descendants of William, Ezekiel, George Washington, and James Rice, Jr. Ezekiel's death record in 1862 identifies James and Eliner as parents. Old James, William, Elijah, Ezekiel,Jeremiah and George Rice frequently appear on the same county documents in VA and Ohio. Job Lambert a supposed son-in-law also appears on Kanawha County Personal Property records (1801, 1802, and 1806).
---
Date of Birth and age comes from Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 59, September 1840 – March 1841, Printed by the Editor: Jeremiah Hughes, Baltimore, MD, page 288 which states "Longevity: There is a man living in Greenfield Township, Gallia County, Ohio by the name of James Rice who was 116 years old on the 24th of April last and yet bids fair to add some years to the days of his earthly pilgrimage."
Gallipolis Journal, 8 Aug 1839, states he has a son 83 years old still living. (This probably just implies that his oldest son was still living.) That would have been "William", born 1756.
1782 Montgomery County, VA (property & land documents)
1793 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1793 Signed Petition to form Tazewell County, VA (Also George, William & Elijah Rice)
1794 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1795 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1796 Signed Petition to form Tazewell County, VA (Also William & Elijah Rice)
1797 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1798 Wythe County, VA (tax list)
1800 Kanawha County, VA (land sale document)
1801 Kanawha County, VA (tax list)
1802 Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio (tax records)
1806 Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio (historical account)
1810 Gallia County, Ohio (tax list)
1812,1818, and 1819 Gallia County, Ohio (tax list)
1820 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
1830 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
1840 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio
Per Ohio Tax Records, James Rice was living in Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio in 1802. He appears along with Ezekiel and Elijah Rice. In 1802, Belpre Township comprised the territory south of townships Waterford and Marietta and north of Gallipolis (Court of Quarter Sessions 1797). Part of that land latter became Gallia County, Ohio in 1803.
Was supposedly 120 years old at death? Sources: Gallipolis Journal, 8 Aug 1839; 1840 Federal Census, Greenfield Township, Gallia County, OH (written comment), Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volumes 23 and 24, Page 327 by Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Published 1841, and Niles National Register, by Jeremiah Hughes, on page 288 (see note at bottom of bio).
First Wife: Elliner (Elinor)(Eliner)
Reported Children:
Note: On Ancestry.Com Family Trees there is frequent reference to a son, James William Rice, b: 1752/53 d: 1827, Gallia County, OH. There is no documentation that said individual ever exited and there is definitely no evidence that he was ever in Gallia County or Ohio and definitely did no die in Gallia County in 1827.
William Rice, b: 1756 d: After 1850 [1850 Fed Census, District 1, Carter, KY, Wm. Rice, age 94.] He is the son mentioned in the 1839, Gallipolis Journal entry as living and 83 yrs old in 1839.
Hannah Rice, b: 1760 d: Sept 1859; FAG # 21026746
Thomas Sherrod Rice, b: 1770
Sarah Rice, b: 1774/5 m: Alexander Beavers, Jr., 17 Dec 1792, Montgomery County, VA; FAG # 16960241
Elijah Rice, b: 1775
Jeremiah Rice, b: 1776 d: about 1830, Bloom, Scioto, OH [See 1830 Fed Census, Scioto, Ohio]. Note there was a Jeremiah Rice in the 1840 Fed Census, Madison, Jackson, OH, however, he is younger than 1830 Jeremiah Rice. Second Jeremiah Rice is son of Ezekiel L. Rice, KY moved to Potosí, Linn, KS 1870 Fed Census.
Ezekiel L. Rice, b: 1777/78
Birth: abt 1778, Virginia
Death: 6 May 1862, Carter County, KY
Parents: James Rice & Eliner Rice (taken from death record); FAG # 112340536
George Washington Rice, b: abt 1780 d. 1850; FAG # 100289633
Polly Rice, b: 1780
Second Wife: Mary (see note 3 below for Mary).
Old James was married to "Mary" Rice from prior to 1801 thru 1832. His and her names appears on two land sale deeds; 1801 in Tazewell, VA and 1832 in Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio. Both sales were to Lamberts; very probably close relatives.
Reported Children:
Mary Rice, b: 1787/1792 m: Pearsall Lambert (13 Feb 1811); FAG # 113156106
Old James & Mary Rice sold property (80 acres) on 11/14/1832 in Gallia County, Ohio to Pearsall Lambert (daughter Mary's husband)for a token sum of ONE dollar.
James Rice, b: 1795 d: 1874; FAG # 39861495
Source:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shastablue&id=I14179
Notes:
1. 1839, Aug. 8. Gallipolis Journal: James Rice of Greenfield Twp. Gallia County, Ohio was 116 years old last June. His health is good, and he still retains strength sufficient to walk about without assistance. He has a son living, who is 83 years of age.
2. Census: 1840 Gallia, Ohio, states birth date as Aug. 24, 1724 in good health written across census line. (Was 116 years old on 24 Aug 1840). [See Original Census Document 1840, James Rice, Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio]
3. Mary Rice: Based on 1830 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia, OH, Mary was between 80-89 years of age. That means she was born between 1741-1750. This wife, Mary's name, appears as James's wife on both the 1801 and 1832 land sales. Mary does not appear with James in the 1840 Fed Census. It is presumed she deceased sometime between 1832 and 1840.
Posted by Sandra Salyers
To: < [email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Rice-Southern-L] RICE in Montgomery/Grayson pre-1790
A James Rice and Robert Bristco/Frisco had a large land holding in the area of Montgomery, Wythe, Tazewell County, Virginia called the James Rice Robert Frisco improvement. A number of land sales from this improvement are listed
in the court record books of Montgomery, Wythe and Tazewell Counties. James and his wife Mary sold their land in Virginia and moved to Gallia County, Ohio in their later years. James is listed in the 1840 census as 116 years old in good health. This was so unusual that the census taker wrote it across the line from James' name. A Gallia County News paper mentioned his longevity a couple of years later. The last Virginia land sale I have listed is to their grandson Jeremiah Lambert for a token price. They spent their last few years of life in Gallia County with the off spring of their daughter Hannah who married Job Lambert. Some of the children of this Rice-Lambert related family migrated to Carter and Lawrence County Kentucky in the early 1800's.
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History of Gallia County, H.H. Hardesty & Co., Publishers, Chicago and Toledo, 1882, Page XXIII.
GREENFIELD TOWNSHIP.
The first to settle in the township were Daniel Faulkner, James Rice (who died at the advanced age of one hundred and twenty years), and Andrew Faulkner. On the 22d of June, 1882, the latter gave an account of his early pioneer recollections to the one appointed to collect and record them for this work, and four days later he had "passed beyond the river," dying suddenly June 26th, 1882. The pioneers first settled at the forks of Symmes creek, Daniel Faulkner building the first cabin, in 1806.
Footnote: Daniel Faulkner also appears on the Kanawha County, VA Personal Property Tax list for 1801.
---
DNA testing has placed this James Rice in Group 5 of the Rice YDNA Project. DNA testing has established a very close association of descendants of William, Ezekiel, George Washington, and James Rice, Jr. Ezekiel's death record in 1862 identifies James and Eliner as parents. Old James, William, Elijah, Ezekiel,Jeremiah and George Rice frequently appear on the same county documents in VA and Ohio. Job Lambert a supposed son-in-law also appears on Kanawha County Personal Property records (1801, 1802, and 1806).
---
Date of Birth and age comes from Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 59, September 1840 – March 1841, Printed by the Editor: Jeremiah Hughes, Baltimore, MD, page 288 which states "Longevity: There is a man living in Greenfield Township, Gallia County, Ohio by the name of James Rice who was 116 years old on the 24th of April last and yet bids fair to add some years to the days of his earthly pilgrimage."
Gallipolis Journal, 8 Aug 1839, states he has a son 83 years old still living. (This probably just implies that his oldest son was still living.) That would have been "William", born 1756.
