DAVID RICE; was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, September 4th, 1800. He is the son of John and Patsy (Johnson) Rice. When nineteen years of age, he came to Boone county. His father came a year later. They settled at Boone's Lick. In 1821 moved to the Bonne Femme, four miles southeast of McConathy's mill. He was a farmer, and his son, David, was brought up in the same occupation. Was married, March 22d, 1829, to Miss Sallie, daughter of Higgason and Nancy Harris. They have nine children, five of whom are now living: Higgason H., Julina, John J., David Barton and Sarah E. Mr. and Mrs. Rice are both members of the Baptist church. Mr. Rice has been a communicant for sixty years. Mr. Rice had a contract for furnishing lumber for the capitol building at Jefferson City, and rafted to that city three hundred pieces of timber. Mrs. Rice has a counterpane which she spun and wove with her own hands sixty years ago.
Source: History of Boone County, Missouri; By Author Col. Wm. F. Switzler; Publ. 1882 by Western Historical Company; [1]
Mr. and Mrs. Rice are both members of the Baptist church. Mr. Rice has been a communicant for sixty years. Mr. Rice had a contract for furnishing lumber for the capitol building at Jefferson City, and rafted to that city three hundred pieces of timber. Mrs. Rice has a counterpane which she spun and wove with her own hands sixty years ago.”[2]
Fact: Burial Mount Pleasant Cemetery , Hartsburg, Boone County, Missouri, USA
Census
1860 Listed in Cedar Twp., Boone Co., MO Census records [3]
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZ3-W2G : 4 April 2020), David Rice, Boone county, Boone, Missouri, United States; citing family 1245, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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