William
Putnam
Rice
Sr.
Born in Virginia, Cass, Illinois, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Elbert Gallatin Rice
and Mary Ann (Camp) Rice
Brother of
Sarah Ellen (Rice) Campbell, Nancy Catherine (Rice) Rawlings, Albert Clark Rice, Walter Scott Rice, Laura Rice, Mary Jane (Rice) Culver, Emma Florence Rice, John Campbell Rice, Georgia Anna (Rice) Rankin and Eva May (Rice) Hulett
Husband of
Margaret Georgia (Richards) Rice
— married
8 Oct 1884 in St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Eugene Warfield Rice, Mary Alvea (Rice) Long, Elbert Floyd Rice Sr., William Putnam Rice Jr. and Helen Louise (Rice) Fifer
Died
at age 66
in Jerome, Jerome County, Idaho, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 13 Oct 2011
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Biography
Descendant of Deacon Edmund Rice (1594-1663), an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first of his line to come to America in 1639.
William Putnam Rice was born March 8, 1856 in Virginia Township, Cass County, Illinois to Elbert Gallatin Rice and Mary Ann Camp.
He married Margaret Georgia Richards October 8, 1884 in St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri. They had seven children, however, two died in infancy and there is no record of them:
- Eugene Warfield Rice 1885-1973
- Mary Alvea (Rice) Long 1886-1987
- Gertrude Rice 1890-1891
- Agnes Rice 1892-1893
- Elbert Floyd Rice, Sr. 1893-1989
- William Putnam Rice, Jr. 1897-1986
- Helen Louise (Rice) Fifer 1900-2003
William Putnam Rice is buried in Jerome Cemetery In Jerome, Jerome County, Idaho.[1]
Sources
- Married October 8, 1884, St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, USA. Ancestry.com. Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
- Find a Grave, memorial page for William Putnam Rice (1856–1922), Find A Grave: Memorial #79209296, citing Jerome Cemetery, Jerome, Jerome County, Idaho, USA.
Acknowledgment
- WikiTree profile Rice-1625 created through the import of RamageRice102011.ged on Oct 12, 2011 by Molly Rice.
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- Wes Rice
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, FTDNA kit #11035
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~12.50%
Irvina Buchanan :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A429123 [compare], Ancestry member IrvinaMitchell
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~1.56%
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