Aaron Rice
Birth: Mar. 23, 1765
Death: May 15, 1855
Born in Charlemont, Hampshire Co., MA.
Married: Lona Thompson.
Died in Brecksville, Cuyahoga Co., OH.
Family links:
Parents:
Aaron Rice (1725 - 1808)
Freedom French Rice (1730 - 1809)
Children:
Eunice Rice Rice (1790 - 1865)*
William Rice (1797 - 1847)*
Moses Rice (1799 - 1862)*
Peter Rice (1803 - 1856)*
Myron Rice (1809 - 1896)*
Jane Rice Bagley (1811 - 1851)*
Spouse:
Lona Thompson Rice (1771 - 1839)
*Point here for explanation
Burial:
Barr Cemetery
Brecksville
Cuyahoga County
Ohio, USA
Created by: Joyce
Record added: Mar 10, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 8489800. (VI) Aaron Rice, son of Aaron Rice (5), was born March 23, 1765, in Charlemont. He married, April 16, 1789, Lona Thompson, born January 4, 1771, of Charlemont; removed to Breckville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and died there in the fifties, over ninety years of age. Children: 1. Eunice, born April 23, 1700, married Ebenezer Rice. 2, Hepzibath, born May 3, 1792, married Peter Comstock, at Breckville, Ohio, August 21, 1814. 3. Aaron, born November 15, 1793, married Jemima Dunsha. 4. Seth, born February 20, 1795; married Candace Edgerton. 5. William, born March 4, 1707, married Ruth Edgerton. 6. Moses, mentioned below. 7. Peter, born June 8, 1803, married Betsey Cole. 8. Diantha, born February 9, 1807. died June 12, 1817.
9. Myron, born August 1, 1809, married Maria Cole; resided in Putnam county, Ohio, and had nine children. 10. Jane, born September 23, 1811, married N. H. Bagley. 11. Hiram, born June 12, 1814, died November 6, 1814. .
(VII) Moses, son of Aaron Rice (6), was born August 25, 1799, in Putnam county, Ohio, or went there when a young boy with his father's family. He married Amy Dunsha, February 21, 1822. She was born October 6, 1801. They lived in Putnam county. Children: 1. James, mentioned below. 2. Julian, born July 4, 1825. 3. Sarah J., born July 20, 1829. 4. Vialetta, born May 15, 1832. 5. Eunice, born September 6, 1836. 6, Samantha, born July 20, 1841, died in infancy. 7. Wilson, born January 1, 1844. 8. Hollis, born December 11, 1847.
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal ..., Volume 4
By Ellery Bicknell Crane 1907. Amos' ancesty...
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 4 Published 1907
THE RICE FAMILY. Edmund Rice (1), immigrant ancestor of Samantha (Rice) Bushong, was born in England, coming from Barkhamstead, Hertfordshire, to Sudbury, Massachusetts, about 1638. He shared in the division of land there in 1639. He was selectman in 16+4 and subsequent years, deacon of the Sudbury Church in 1648, and in 1656 one of the thirteen petitioners for the Marlboro grant. His home in Sudbury was in the southerly part of what is now Wayland, east of the Sudbury river meadows. In Marlboro his residence was in the westerly part of the town on the old county road from Marlboro to Northboro in the bend as it passes around the north side, of the pond a short distance from the ancient Williams Tavern. He died May 3, 1663, aged sixty-two years, and was buried at Sudbury. His wife Tamazin died at Sudbury, June 13, 1654. He married (second) Mercy Brigham, widow of Thomas Brigham, of Cambridge. (For children and further data of the immigrant, see other sketches of Rice family.)
(II) Edward Rice, son of Edmund Rice (1). was born in Barkhamstead, England, about 1620. He resided at Sudbury, removed to Marlboro in 1664 and was deacon of the church there. He gave his age as forty-seven in 1666. He died August 15, 1712, about ninety-three years old. He deeded half of his form to his son, Edmund Rice, of Sudbury, the other half to his son, John Rice, of Sudbury, April 16, 1706. He married (first) Agnes
Bent; (second) Anna , who died at Marlboro, his
widow, June 4, 1713. aged eighty-three. All his children, except the eldest whose birth record has not been found, were by the second wife Anna, the two youngest born at Marlboro and the others at Sudbury. Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Lydia, born and died July 30, 1648. 3. Lydia, born December 10, 1649. 4. Edmund, born December 9, 1653, married Joyce Russell. 5. Daniel, born November 8, 1655, married Bethia Ward. 6. Caleb, born February 8, 1657, died April 27, 1658. 7. Jacob, born 1660. 8. Anna, born November 19, 1661, married Thomas Rice. 9. Dorcas, born January 29, 1664, married Thomas Forbush (or Forbes). 10.
Benjamin, born December 22, 1666, married Mary Graves. 11. Abigail, born May 9, 1671, married Samuel Forbush, of Marlboro.
(III) John Rice, son of Edward Rice (2), was born in Sudbury, about 1647; married Tabitha Stone, November 27, 1674, daughter of John and Anna Stone, granddaughter of Deacon Gregory Stone, an immigrant, who died at Cambridge, November 30, 1672, aged eighty-two years (see Stone family). John Rice lived in what is now Wayland, on the easterly side of the road from Weston to Saxonville, and on part of his grandfather Rice's homestead. He died intestate September 6, 1719, aged about seventy-two years. Children: 1. John, born September 29, 1675, married Elizabeth Clapp. 2. Anna, born August 29, 1678. 3. Deliverance, born August 14, 1681, married John How, Jr. 4. Tabitha, born November 25, 1683. 5. Prudence, born July 26, 1685. 6. Abigail, born November 27, 1687, married Uriah Wheeler, of Sudbury, a descendant of Resolved White, who came over in the "Mayflower" with his parents, William and Susanna. 7. Captain Edward, born December 23, 1689. 8. Dinah, born February 10, 1691, married Joseph Haynes. 9. Moses, mentioned below. 10. Ta1nar, born September 29, 1697, married William Morrc. n. Captain Aaron, born August 13, 1700, married Hannah Wright.
(IV) Captain Moses Rice, son of John Rice (3), was born in Sudbury, October 27, 1694, married Sarah King, of Sudbury, November 10, 1719, and removed to Worcester, about 1722, with her brothers, Ezra and Peter King. Rice opened a public house on the site of one afterwards kept by Captain Ephraim Mower and on which was subsequently erected the United States Hotel, the present site of the Walker Building. He was on garrison duty at Rutland with others from Worcester, in 1724, in Captain Samuel Wright's company. He commanded a company of cavalry while he lived in Worcester. He removed to Rutland about 1742. He purchased two thousand two hundred acres of land in Charlmont, Massachusetts, April 23, 1743, and finally settled on it. He is said to have been the first town clerk, probably the proprietors' clerk, as the town was incorporated after his death. Being a frontier settlement it was exposed during the French and Indian wars to the ravages of the e«emy. June 11, 1755, while Captain Rice was in his field ploughing his corn, the Indians in ambush shot him and at the same time shot and killed outright Phineas Arms, aged twenty-four, who was at work in the field also. The horse at the plow, being frightened, started suddenly and three off his rider, Asa Rice, a grandson of Captain Moses Rice, aged about eight, whom the Indians caught up and carried to Canada. Captain Rice being sorely wounded and unable to walk was taken some distance into the adjoining woods where he was tomahawked and scalped. Such as his tragic end; he was then in the sixty-first year of his age, and the chief man of the township for counsel in peace and in war. Having previously been a prominent man in three towns, two of them old settlements, before he removed to Charlemont, he was there looked upon as the head and father of the settlement, the chief promoter and one of the earliest settlers. He had collected a great amount of historical matter, comprising an account of many interesting events of which he had been a witness, but his manuscripts were destroyed by fire, a sad loss to the family and towns in which he had lived. His wife died about 1788 at the home of her son Aaron. Children, born in Worcester, except the
eldest: 1. Samuel, born at Sudbury, August 10, 1720, married Dorothy Martin. 2. Abigail, born February 20, 1722-23, married James Heaton. 3. Aaron, mentioned below. 4. Dinah, born January 21, 1726-27, married Joseph Stevens. 5. Sylvanus, born January 6, 1728-29, married Esther Nims. 6. Tamar, born June 15, 1732, married John Wells, of Shelburne. 7. Artemas, born October 22, 1734, married Mary Stevens.
(V) Aaron Rice, son of Captain Moses Rice (4), was born January 31, 1724-25. He married, November 5, 1754, Freedom French, born April 22, 1730, died September, 1809, daughter of Thomas and Joanna French. They were admitted to the Decrfield (Massachusetts) Church, September, 1756. He was deacon of the Charlemont Church. He was corporal in Captain Burke's company in the French war in 1758. He was a member ot the state convention of 1779 to frame a constitution for the commonwealth ot Massachusetts, an honor that entitles his descendants to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution. He died in 1808, aged eighty- four years. Following is the inscription on his grave: "Sacred to the memory of Deacon Aaron Rice and Freedom, his wife; who, having sustained the hardships of an iufant frontier settlement in time of war; having reared a family of eleven children, six of whom lie interred in this ground; and lived together in happy wedlock fifty-four years, departed this life, the first December 2, 1808, aged 84 years; the other September 15, 1809, aged 79 years." Children: 1. Sarah, born August 10, 1756, died December 7, 1758.
2. John, born February 2, 1758, married Ruth R1ce.
3. Sarah, born November 14. 1759, died April 16. 1783. 4. Anna, born July 10, 1701, died December 9, 1783- 5. Eunice, born July 24, 1763, died December 6, 1782. 6. Aaron, mentioned below. 7. Joseph, born December 8, 17^7, married Emblem Comstock.
8. Luke, born November 27, 1709, married Lydia Rice. 9. Silas, born October 10, 1771. 10. Freedom, 11. Child, probably died young.
(VI) Aaron Rice, son of Aaron Rice (5), was born March 23, 1765, in Charlemont. He married, April 16, 1789, Lona Thompson, born January 4, 1771, of Charlemont; removed to Breckville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and died there in the fifties, over ninety years of age. Children: 1. Eunice, born April 23, 1700, married Ebenezer Rice. 2, Hepzibath, born May 3, 1792, married Peter Comstock, at Breckville, Ohio, August 21, 1814. 3. Aaron, born November 15, 1793, married Jemima Dunsha. 4. Seth, born February 20, 1795; married Candace Edgerton. 5. William, born March 4, 1707, married Ruth Edgerton. 6. Moses, mentioned below. 7. Peter, born June 8, 1803, married Betsey Cole. 8. Diantha, born February 9, 1807. died June 12, 1817.
9. Myron, born August 1, 1809, married Maria Cole; resided in Putnam county, Ohio, and had nine children. 10. Jane, born September 23, 1811, married N. H. Bagley. 11. Hiram, born June 12, 1814, died November 6, 1814. .
(VII) Moses, son of Aaron Rice (6), was born August 25, 1799, in Putnam county, Ohio, or went there when a young boy with his father's family. He married Amy Dut1sha, February 21, 1822. She was born October 6, 1801. They lived in Putnam county. Children: 1. James, mentioned below. 2. Julian, born July 4, 1825. 3. Sarah J., born July 20, 1829. 4. Vialetta, born May 15, 1832. 5. Eunice, born September 6, 1836. 6, Samantha, born July 20, 1841, died in infancy. 7. Wilson, born January 1, 1844. 8. Hollis, born December 11, 1847.
(VIII) James Rice, son of Moses Rice (7), was born in Putnam county, Ohio, September 17, 1823. He married Celicia Blodgett, July 21, 1842- They resided at Ottawa, Ohio. He went to California in the early fifties and was thrown from a horse and
killed. She married (second) Jones, who died
at Waterloo, Indiana. Children of James and Celicia Rice: t. Samantha Vialetta, born February 21, 1843, married John Stout Bushong; mentioned above. 2. Minerva, born January 15. 1845, married Benjamin Roberts. 3. Moses, born December 8, 1847. 4. Stillman, born September 12, 1849. 5. Nelson, born January 23, 1851, died April, 1851. 6. James H., born September 16, 1852, died August, 1853.
Source: Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal ..., Volume 4
By Ellery Bicknell Crane pg 303-308 1907. Aaron Rice
Sex: M
Birth: 23 MAR 1765 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts
Death: 15 MAY 1855 in Brecksville, Cuyahoga, Ohio
_FA1: `S. (22 Feb 2011) www.findagrave.com
_FA11: 15 JUL 1998 S. The Rice Family: Desc. of Deacon Edmund Rice, Boston, 1858, by Andrew H. Ward
Event: Living in 1854 Brecksville, Cuyahoga, Ohio
Burial: MAY 1855 Barr/Rice Cemetery, Brecksville, Cuyahoga, Ohio
Event: Fact 1 qS. (26 Feb 2011) "RiceAllenVarneyGloeckler." Laverner1;(
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Father: Aaron Rice b: 31 JAN 1724/25 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Mother: Freedom French b: 22 APR 1730 in Massachusetts
Marriage 1 Lona Thompson b: 4 JAN 1771 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts
Married: 16 APR 1789 in prob Franklin County, Massachusetts
Children
Has Children Eunice Rice b: 23 APR 1790 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts
Has Children Hepzibath Rice b: 3 MAY 1792 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts
Has Children Aaron Rice b: 15 NOV 1793 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts
Has Children Seth Rice b: 20 FEB 1795 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts
Has Children William Rice b: 4 MAR 1797 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts
Has Children Moses Rice b: 25 AUG 1799 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts
Has Children Peter Rice b: 8 JUN 1803 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts
Has No Children Deantha Rice b: 9 FEB 1807 in prob Franklin County, Massachusetts
Has Children Myron Rice b: 1 AUG 1809 in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts
Has Children Jane Rice b: 23 SEP 1811 in Massachusetts
Has No Children Hiram Rice b: 12 JUL 1814 in prob Cuyahoga County, Ohio.