Hi,
I am looking for information on Simon Rice born abt. 1802 in PA who was
married to Susan Kirker and lived in Butler County in the 1820's when his
son William Kirker was born in abt. 1825. His son William married Margery
Chitister in 1854 in Jefferson County, PA. Between 1856-1859 Simon and Susan
Rice moved the family to Mauckport, Boon Township, Harrison County ,
Indiana. William stayed in PA.
I find Simon next on the 1860 Census in IN with the following children:
John Rice age 33
Simon age 22
George W. age 21
Henry age 18
Sarah age 16
On the 1870 IN census, I have Simon and Susan again with John and Sarah
still at home. In the dwelling before them is:
Joseph Rice age 42
Elenor 40
Simon 18
Rachel E. 16
Susan 14
David 11
George W. 8
Sarah B. 4
Robert H. 2
I believe that he is also a son of Simon. David and all the children born
after him were born in Indiana.
In the 1860 Census, Joseph is in Lacoma, IN and he has a Johnson Rice in his
household age 24, He may be another of Simon's son.
These are pages from the book:
A Collection of Harrison County Records by
Walter Beanblossom that was published by
The Ancestral Trails Historical Society of Vine Grove, KY.
1977:
SCOTT LIFE GUARDS
We whose name are here unto subscribed, being citizens and residents
of the State of Indiana, agree to form ourselves into a Volunteer Militia
Company in the Indiana Legion, under the provisions of "An Act for the
Organization and Regulation of the Indiana Militia" approved May 11. 1861.
We severally undertake that we will each uniform ourselves in
accordance with the requirements of said law.
The Company will be organized at a point on Buck Creek, Three
Quarters of a mile below Saffer's Mill, in Harrison County in said State,
and will be called the SCOTT LIFE GUARDS.
Witness our names this 1st day of June 1861
Name Age Name
Age
Francis M. Shewmaker 18 Hiram C. Reagan
44
John Stafford 18 Abraham RICE
29
Leonard Love 20 John S. Toops
30
John D. Rockenbah 40 Ambrose Shreck
22
Joseph RICE 33 Philip Love 22
Johnston RICE 25 Miers L. Evans
36
Wm. M. Wright 26 Timothy McKnight 37
Oliver Cromwell 20 Harry Frakes
36
Baker Love 25 Robert A. Biggs
29
George Allison 22 Wm. W. Moss
22
Henry Albin 32 Isaac Lemmon 44
Francis Dedrick 19 Robert I. Smith
18
Edward Comwell 22 Jacob Miller
22
Josuha Shewmaker 28 George Gwartney
25
Charles Ludlow 26 Elhanan W. Zimmerman
24
Irvin H. Reagan 20 Zachariah Duggins
28
D. H. H. Shewmaker 20 George RICE 22
Elias C. Lemmon 23 Levi Melton
36
David Lemmon 21 Isaac Melton
28
Jacob Shreck 24 Wm. H. Hutsler
22
John E. Barger 23 Benjamin H. Biggs
18
John Cromwell 18 James Stallings
28
J. V. B. McRae 21 George McKim
18
Henry Reed 18 John A. Melton
19
Jacob Biggs 21 Henry Lantz 20
David P. Saffer 31 Martin Mohler
19
Joshua T. F. Lemmon 18 Phillip D. Allburn 23
Henry RICE 19 Security Joseph Hutsler
Simon RICE 27 George Friedly
J. S. Lemmon
Abraham Rice was also on the Boone County 1860 census age 28 , born in PA
wife Susan 26 born in PA, son Erastus 4 born in Ohio , Loretta 2 born in
Indiana and son Jepe? 4 months old born in Indiana. He may also be related.
This has him moving to Indiana between 1856-1858.
There is also a John Rice in the 1850 in Corydon, Harrison County, age 45
born in PA a cabinetmaker, whose wife Nancy was born in Ohio age 32, with
children Mary 16, Henry 12, Lydia A. 10, Susan 8 , Theodore 6, and Gertrude
1, all born in PA which puts them in Indiana in 1849. Could he be Simon's
brother???
From Pension Application Image on Ancestry I found that Henry and
Simon
Rice, both were from Co.K 91st Ind. Inf. Henry filed Aug. 19, 1894 from
Indiana, his widow Kate Rice filed from Illinois on June 28, 1915. I don't
know if they both moved to Illinois or she moved there after Henry died. On
the 1870 IN census it states that Catherine(Kate) was 24 born in Indiana and
they had a daughter Maggie age 2 and an unnamed son who was one year old.
Simon filed Sept. 15, 1885 from Indiana and his widow Barbara Rice filed Jan
13, 1910, also from Indiana.
Does anyone have information on this family?
Thanks,
Paula Pompeii
Falls Creek, PA