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James
Rice, son of William Brice and Elizabeth (White)
Rice, was born in 1794 in Monroe County, Virginia. He
married (1) Rachel Mary Wiseman, 23 December 1816
in Monroe County. She was the daughter of Isaac and
Mary (Armentrout) Wiseman. He married (2) Elizabeth
“Betsy” Ramsey, 17 October 1818, also in Monroe
County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Richard and
Elizabeth (?) Ramsey. Elizabeth was born in 1799 and
died in 1835. He married (3) Anna Kirkpatrick Poor
on 5 March 1836, in Waverly, Pike County, Ohio. James
died 12 November 1881 in Jackson County, Ohio. He is
buried next to his wife Elizabeth in the Rice Cemetery
in Jackson County, Ohio.
James was drafted
into the War of 1812 as a Private in Captain Andrew
Nichol’s Company at Uniontown, Monroe County, VA, on 19
July 1814. He was stationed at Craney Island, Virginia
and did duty in drilling and keeping guard. He was
honorably discharged at Norfolk, VA, 8 February 1815.
According to family
tradition, the James Rice family, which included James,
Elizabeth, their oldest son, and Elizabeth’s mother,
along with the families of Miller and Kessinger, left
Willow Bend, Monroe County, Virginia for Ohio on the
morning of 1 November 1820. The group included 15
people, 3 horses and a wagon. The families arrived on
15 November 1820 at the home of Reubin Dickason in
Jackson County, Ohio. James acquired 80 acres four
miles east of Jackson, built a one-room log cabin and
cleared land for crops.
Children of James and
Elizabeth (Ramsey) Rice are:
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William Brice
(1819-1911) married Sarah Ann Lucas on 15
October 1840 in Jackson County, Ohio
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Levi
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Richard
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George
Washington, born 4 November 1824, Jackson
County, Ohio, Jackson, Ohio, married Cynthia
Literal (born in 1825) on 16 October 1845 in
Jackson County, Ohio. George died in Jackson
County, Ohio on 17 August 1910 and is buried in
Fairmont Cemetery, Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio.
Cynthia died on 4 December 1859 and is buried in
Rice Cemetery in Jackson County, Ohio. Their
children included:
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Samuel Ira,
born 6 July 1846 in Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio
and died 27 December 1926 in Jackson County, Ohio,
married Mary Ellen Blair 13 December 1865 in
Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio. She was born 10
August 1847 and died 30 December 1916 in Jackson
County, Ohio. Ira served in the Civil War.
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·Mary
married (?) Evans
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·Benjamin
F. (1832- )
Children of James and
Anna (Kirkpatrick) Poor
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Mary Ann Poor
(1832- ) Anna’s child from previous marriage
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Jefferson Rice
(1839- )
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Minerva Rice
(1841- ) married Allen Granville Wiseman
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James Francis
born 25 December 1840
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