Son of James Rice and Ann Hopkins Rice
Married Caroline Montgomery, February 4, 1841 in Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois
His earliest childhood was spent on the banks of the Ohio and big Sandy rivers. His father was drowned in the Ohio in March 1915. In the spring of 1820 his mover moved with her six children to Christian County, Kentucky, by flat board on the Ohio. In Christian County he spent his youth working on his mother's farm during the summer months and in the winter attending one of the traditional log cabin school houses.
George studied for the ministry at Clarksville, Tennessee. He moved with his mother from Christian County, Kentucky to Monmouth, Illinois in 1835. He was in the mercantile business with his brothers a few years in Monmouth, then the farmed in Henderson County, Illinois until 1857, when he went to Oquawka, Illinois. Here he entered the mercantile firm of Phelps & Rice, which continued four years, when he retired. He was forty years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church.
He died in Omaha, Nebraska
Married Caroline Montgomery, February 4, 1841 in Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois
His earliest childhood was spent on the banks of the Ohio and big Sandy rivers. His father was drowned in the Ohio in March 1915. In the spring of 1820 his mover moved with her six children to Christian County, Kentucky, by flat board on the Ohio. In Christian County he spent his youth working on his mother's farm during the summer months and in the winter attending one of the traditional log cabin school houses.
George studied for the ministry at Clarksville, Tennessee. He moved with his mother from Christian County, Kentucky to Monmouth, Illinois in 1835. He was in the mercantile business with his brothers a few years in Monmouth, then the farmed in Henderson County, Illinois until 1857, when he went to Oquawka, Illinois. Here he entered the mercantile firm of Phelps & Rice, which continued four years, when he retired. He was forty years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church.
He died in Omaha, Nebraska
Son of James Rice and Ann Hopkins Rice
Married Caroline Montgomery, February 4, 1841 in Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois
His earliest childhood was spent on the banks of the Ohio and big Sandy rivers. His father was drowned in the Ohio in March 1915. In the spring of 1820 his mover moved with her six children to Christian County, Kentucky, by flat board on the Ohio. In Christian County he spent his youth working on his mother's farm during the summer months and in the winter attending one of the traditional log cabin school houses.
George studied for the ministry at Clarksville, Tennessee. He moved with his mother from Christian County, Kentucky to Monmouth, Illinois in 1835. He was in the mercantile business with his brothers a few years in Monmouth, then the farmed in Henderson County, Illinois until 1857, when he went to Oquawka, Illinois. Here he entered the mercantile firm of Phelps & Rice, which continued four years, when he retired. He was forty years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church.
He died in Omaha, Nebraska
Married Caroline Montgomery, February 4, 1841 in Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois
His earliest childhood was spent on the banks of the Ohio and big Sandy rivers. His father was drowned in the Ohio in March 1915. In the spring of 1820 his mover moved with her six children to Christian County, Kentucky, by flat board on the Ohio. In Christian County he spent his youth working on his mother's farm during the summer months and in the winter attending one of the traditional log cabin school houses.
George studied for the ministry at Clarksville, Tennessee. He moved with his mother from Christian County, Kentucky to Monmouth, Illinois in 1835. He was in the mercantile business with his brothers a few years in Monmouth, then the farmed in Henderson County, Illinois until 1857, when he went to Oquawka, Illinois. Here he entered the mercantile firm of Phelps & Rice, which continued four years, when he retired. He was forty years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church.
He died in Omaha, Nebraska
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