Toliver Gholson Rice (1816 - 1889)

Born 12 Aug 1816 in Maury, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Died 7 May 1889 at age 72 in Indian Creek, White, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Toliver was born in 1816. He was the son of Abel Rice and Lydia Gholson. He passed away in 1889.

From biography on FindAGrave: "Toliver G. Rice died 5-7-1889 at his residence in White County. The body was brought to McLeansboro where the funeral discourse was delivered by the Rev. G. W. Williams at the C. P. Church, from which a large number of friends followed the hearse to the Odd Fellow's Cemetery where the old pioneer was left to rest in quiet, awaiting the Resurrection.

Mr. Rice was born in Maury County, Tennessee, 8-12-1816. His father came to Illinois in an early day and settled in White County where he raised a large family of children of which Toliver was the oldest. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Miller of White County in 1837. This union was blessed with six children, two of which died in infancy and another at the age of thirty seven years. The other three survive him. In 1844 he moved to Hardin County where he remained four years; he then settled in Hamilton County, and for thirty-six years made McLeansboro and its vicinity his home. His illness was very brief. On the day before his death he ate a hearty dinner and was feeling as well as usual. But in the afternoon he was stricken with a severe neuralgia from which he suffered terribley for about fifteen hours, when the disease reached his heart, and his sufferings were ended in death.

Death came to him suddenly and without warning, but did not find him unprepared. In 1842 he accepted Christ as his personal Saviour and joined the C. P. Church in which he lived an active, consistant member for forty years. Late in life he changed his church relations, joining the M. E. Church, but he never lost his love for the Church of his youth. Nor his zeal for the Master's work. He was a man of strong faith, and his religion was the staff upon which he leaned in his old age.

The writer has heard him say that during the latter years of his life, when ill health, or trouble of any kind would render him sleepless at night, he would betake himself to prayer, kneeling there upon the floor of his bedroom in the silence of the midnight hour, he would pour out his soul in prayer to Him who never sleepeth, and the answer would come in sweet refreshing sleep from which he would awake in the morning to praise God."

Sources

• Find a Grave, memorial page for Toliver Gholson Rice (12 Aug 1816–7 May 1889), Find A Grave: Memorial #32412864, citing Odd Fellows Cemetery, McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois, USA.