Henry Rice (abt. 1717 - abt. 1818)

Born about 1717 in Hanover County, Virginia

Husband of Margaret (Bradburn) Rice — married 1737 in Orange County, Virginia

Descendants

Died about 1818 at about age 101 in Lost Creek, Union, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Henry Rice served with Civil Service, Virginia during the American Revolution.

Henry Rice is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A094914.

Henry Rice Occupation; Gristmiller

Sign: On the site of this mill, Henry Rice built and fortified a mill in 1775. Here, in 1776, the settlers took refuge from warring Cherokee. In April, 1777, Capt. James Robertson and eight other pioneers had a fight with 30 or 40 Cherokee near here, in which Frederick Calvatt was scalped.

"The grave of Henry Rice, Rev. War soldier, born in Virginia in 1717; w/Margaret died at Lost Creek in 1818, buried on homeplace later to become Lost Creek Cemetery. Marker dedicated by children of Roy Rice: Robert, Frances Rice Shute, Richard, Tom, Harry, and Janet Rice Houseman in 1977."^[1]

"Henry Rice, (1717-1818), The Pioneer Tennessee Gristmiller and His Twelve Children" which has an abstract of "Henry Rice was born in 1717(?) in Hanover County, Virginia, lived in Virginia, South Carolina, and East Tennessee; he died in 1818 at Lost Creek, Tennessee (Campbell County, now Union). Name(s) of wife or wives unknown. He had at least six sons and six daughters, some born in Virginia and some in South Carolina. Near the middle of the century the family moved to the “96 District” of South Carolina and settled on land known as Indian territory. After several years at Rices Creek of Twelve Mile River in South Carolina, Henry traveled with some of his older children to Watauga Settlement, East Tennessee, where he built and fortified a large grist mill. He spent the rest of his 101 years here and at Lost Creek."^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Rootsweb webpage on The Rice Mill:
2. ↑ Heritage books Link

• Marker Name: Rice's Mill, Marker Location: Roadside, Type of Marker: Building, Marker Number: 1B 16, Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker: Tennessee Historical Commission
• South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 6, Volume XVI Spring 1988 Number 2 , p. 119, Henry Rice (1717-1818) The Pioneer Tennessee Gristmiller, and his Twelve Children by Melvin Weaver Little. 312 pages, soft cover, indexed.
• South, Arlington, VA 22202. Mr. Little begins this genealogy with the birth of Henry Rice c1717 in Hanover County, Virginia, and traces him through South Carolina into East Tennessee, until his death in 1818 in Campbell (now Union) County, Tennessee. In South Carolina, Henry Rice lived in Pendleton County, near present Pickens, where he as well as his sons Charies and James Rice obtained state land grants there. This volume gives every appearance of having been well-researched and abstracts of pertinent documents with proper references are included.
• Find A Grave #30527772 memorial for Henry John Rice
• Genealogy Records for Link