Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Samuel Lewis Rice (1793-1864)

Samuel Lewis Rice was born in 1793 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.  He was the son of Claibourne Rice and Lucy Blanton.

Samuel married Clarissa Moore on May 1, 1818 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.  He was 25 years old and she was 21 years.  Clarissa was born in 1797 in Muhlenberg County, the daughter of Maurice and Margaret Moore.

After their marriage, Samuel and Clarissa settled five children:

Lewis Claibourne Rice       born May 2, 1819
Male                                       born 1820-1825
Male                                       born 1820-1825
Manerva                                born January 5, 1826
Female                                   born 1826-1830

Clarissa Moore Rice died around 1830 in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky.  She was in her early thirties at her death. 

Samuel remarried three years after the death of his first wife.  He married Jane Morrow on December 12, 1833 in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky.  He was 40 years old and she was 22 years.  Jane was born in 1811 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

Samuel and Jane had six children:

Sarah A. “Sallie”                   born 1835
Mary Frances “Fannie”       born April 1, 1837
Claiborne                              born 1838
John W.                                 born July 1841
Martha Jane “Jennie”          born June 1842
Elvira Catherine                   born 1845

Samuel Lewis Rice died in 1864 in McCracken County, Kentucky.  He was buried in the Rice Family Cemetery in Massac, McCracken County, Kentucky.  He was 71 years old at his death.

After the death of her husband, Jane lived with her daughter, Sarah Nichols, and her family in their home in McCracken County.  By 1880, she was living with her daughter, Martha Bradley, and her family in McCracken County.


Notes for Samuel Lewis Rice
Birth & Death:  Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.  Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
Marriage to Clarissa:  Dodd, Jordan. Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.
Residence in 1820:  1820 U S Census; Census Place: Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Page: 143A; NARA Roll: M33_20; Image: 164.  Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Residence in 1830:  1830; Census Place: Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Series: M19; Roll: 40; Page: 93; Family History Library Film: 0007819.  Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Marriage to Jane:  "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F47L-CQ2 : accessed 12 February 2015), Samuel Rice and Jane Morrow, 12 Dec 1833; citing Paducah, Mc Cracken, Kentucky, reference item 1, bk1, p25; FHL microfilm 2,135,060.
Residence in 1840:  Year: 1840; Census Place: McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: 119; Page: 81; Image: 167; Family History Library Film: 0007830.  Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Residence in 1850:  Year: 1850; Census Place: District 2, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: M432_211; Page: 195A; Image: 395.  Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Residence in 1860:  Year: 1860; Census Place: District 2, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: M653_383; Page: 812; Image: 476; Family History Library Film: 803383.  Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Notes for Clarissa Moore
Birth & Death:  Information found listed on Ancestry.com public member tree “Ellen's Tree_2011-08-15_2012-11-19(1)” (http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/67578366/person/42169480221; accessed 11 February 2015)

Notes for Jane Morrow
Birth & Death:  Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.  Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
Residence in 1870:  Year: 1870; Census Place: District 3, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: M593_487; Page: 15B; Image: 34; Family History Library Film: 545986.  Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Residence in 1880:  Year: 1880; Census Place: Rices, McCracken, Kentucky; Roll: 430; Family History Film: 1254430; Page: 211A; Enumeration District: 006; Image: 0426.  Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve,


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