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     Damaris Rice married Jonathan Brigham. Damaris Rice was born on 20-Jul-1711 at Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Benjamin Rice and Mary Rice.

     Damaris Rice was born circa 1688. She was the daughter of Thomas Rice and Anna Rice. Damaris Rice died on 25-Dec-1769.

     Daniel Rice was born on 8-Nov-1655 at Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Deacon Edward Rice and Agnes (Anna) Bent. Daniel Rice married Bethiah Ward, daughter of William Ward and Elizabeth (?), on 10-Jan-1681 at Marlborough, Massachusetts. Daniel Rice died on 14-Jul-1737 at age 81.
     Daniel Rice house was one of those fortified against Indian attacks between 1711 and 1713.

     Daniel Rice was born on 1-Nov-1632 at England. He was the son of Deacon Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost. Daniel Rice died before 10-Nov-1632.

     Daniel Rice was born on 3-Jun-1684 at Marlborough, Massachusetts. He was the son of Daniel Rice and Bethiah Ward. Daniel Rice married Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of William Taylor and Mary Johnson, on 12-Feb-1713 at Marlborough, Massachusetts.

     Daniel Oliver Rice was born on 23-Jul-1886 at Yoakum, Lavaca County, Texas. He was the son of Oren Adelbert Rice and Mary Alice Hodges. Daniel Oliver Rice married Vicki Pearl Smith, daughter of Webb Smith and Emma Glaze, on 8-Dec-1909 at DeWitt County, Texas. Daniel Oliver Rice was buried at Alexander Cemetery, DeWitt County, Texas. He died on 11-Jan-1968 at Yoakum, DeWitt County, Texas, at age 81.
     The 1900 Federal Census enumerated him as a member of Oren Adelbert Rice's household; Rice, Oren A., head, w/m/July 1855/49, married 25 years, born Texas, father born Ohio, mother born Pen or Ten. The 1930 Federal Census enumerated him as head of household DeWitt County, Texas.

     David Harryman Rice is the son of Meeks Owen "Mickey" Rice and Dorothy Mae Harryman.

     David Lawrence Rice is the son of Lester Jay Rice and Donna Marion Munson.

     Deborah Rice was born on 22-May-1704 at Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Captain Peter Rice and Rebecca How. Deborah Rice married James Brown on 26-Jan-1724/25. Deborah Rice died before 1746.

     Deborah Rice was born on 14-Nov-1697. She was the daughter of Daniel Rice and Bethiah Ward. Deborah Rice married James Brown on 26-Jan-1725 at Marlborough, Massachusetts. Deborah Rice died on 1-Dec-1725 at Marlborough, Massachusetts, at age 28.

     Deenie Bell Rice was born on 20-Sep-1888 at DeWitt County, Texas. She was the daughter of Oren Adelbert Rice and Mary Alice Hodges. Deenie Bell Rice married Lee Floyd Granberry, son of James Madison Granberry and Delilah Jane Byars, on 12-Dec-1908 at DeWitt County, Texas. Deenie Bell Granberry died on 24-Feb-1939 at Houston, Harris County, Texas, at age 50. She was buried at Hebron Cemetery, DeWitt County, Texas.
     Deenie Bell Granberry was a Baptist. The 1900 Federal Census enumerated her as a member of Oren Adelbert Rice's household; Rice, Oren A., head, w/m/July 1855/49, married 25 years, born Texas, father born Ohio, mother born Pen or Ten.

     Della Marie Rice is the daughter of Lloyd Keith Rice and Ollie Jo Rucker.

     Dinah Rice was born in 1693 at Marlborough, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Edmund Rice and Ruth Parker.

     Dinah Lee Rice is the daughter of Orville Owen Rice and Zora Wilkerson.

     Donald Eugene "Gene" Rice is the son of Meeks Owen "Mickey" Rice and Dorothy Mae Harryman.

     Dorcas Rice married Thomas Forbush, son of (?) Forbush. Dorcas Rice was born on 29-Jan-1664 at Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Deacon Edward Rice and Agnes (Anna) Bent. Dorcas Rice died on 24-Mar-1753 at age 89.

     Ebenezer Rice was born on 1-May-1671. He was the son of Benjamin Rice and Mary Brown.

     Ebenezer Rice was born in 1714 at Marlborough, Massachusetts. He was the son of Edmund Rice and Ruth Parker.

     Edgar Davis Rice was born on 22-Jan-1927 at Yoakum, Lavaca County, Texas. He was the son of Jesse James Rice and Wilhemena Minnie Schulz. Edgar Davis Rice married Gloria Louise Pridgen, daughter of Oscar Wiley Pridgen and Helen Walter, on 17-Dec-1948 at Yoakum, Lavaca County, Texas. Edgar Davis Rice died on 3-Feb-1991 at Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, at age 64.
     Edgar Davis Rice served in the U. S. Army during World War II.

     Edmund Rice was born in 1663. He was the son of Samuel Rice and Elizabeth King. Edmund Rice married Ruth Parker on 15-Nov-1692. Edmund Rice died in 1726 leaving widow Hannah.

     Edmund Rice was born on 9-Jul-1688. He was the son of Deacon Edmund (2) Rice and Joyce Russell.

     Edmund Rice was born on 10-Jul-1725 at Sudbury, Massachusetts. He was the son of Jason Rice and Abigail Clark. Edmund Rice married Margaret Smith on 22-Feb-1749/50 at Sudbury, Massachusetts.

     Edmund Rice was born on 28-Dec-1755 at Sudbury, Massachusetts. He was the son of Edmund Rice and Margaret Smith. Edmund Rice married Abigail Cutting on 30-Sep-1784 at Rutland, Massachusetts. Edmund Rice died on 14-Nov-1841 at Wayland, Massachusetts, at age 85.
     Edmund Rice served in the Provencial Militia during Revolutionary War in 1775 served 8 months service, Russell's Company, Brewer's Regiment, from Sudbury.

     Deacon Edmund Rice was born in 1594 at Barkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England. He married Thomasine Frost, daughter of Edward Frost and Thomasine Belgrave, on 15-Oct-1618 at St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk County, England. Deacon Edmund Rice married Mercy Brigham, daughter of John Hurd, on 1-Mar-1655. Deacon Edmund Rice died on 3-May-1663 at Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was buried . One possible site of the grave is marked by a monument designed by Arthur Wallace Rice of Boston, MA. It was dedicated by the Edmund Rice Association on 29 August 1914. A boulder with a bronze tablet was also erected by the Association and it marks Edmund's homestead on the Old Connecticut Path in Wayland. at Old Burying Ground, Wayland, Massachusetts.
     Twice in the 20th century nationally recognized research genealogists have attempted to determine the parents and ancestors of Edmund Rice. Mary Lovering Holman described the negative result of her search for records in the parishes near Stanstead and Sudbury, Suffolk County, England in "English Notes on Edmund Rice … ", The American Genealogist, Volume 10 (1933/34), pp. 133 - 137. Mrs. Holman is considered by many to be one of the best research genealogists in the 20th century. In 1997 the Edmund Rice (1638) Association commissioned Dr. Joanna Martin, a nationally recognized research genealogist who lives in England only a few miles from Stanstead and Sudbury to search again for records of Edmund Rice's parents. Dr. Martin reported in 1999 that she found no record that identified Edmund's parents or ancestral line.

Several authors of published works and computer data sets have claimed names for Edmund Rice's parents. Regrettably they have not given sources that would assist in definitive genealogical research. For example, the Ancestral File and International Genealogical Index, two popular computer data sets widely distributed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, offer parent candidates that include: Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, and Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost.

From Mrs. Holman's paper we have an excellent record of one Henry Rice's marriage to Elizabeth Frost in November 1605 at Stanstead. Mrs. Holman also documents the baptism of Edmund's first child on 23 August 1619 at Stanstead. If this is the Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost to which the LDS records refer, the LDS records must be erroneous. Our researchers have not been able to find records that support any Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, or Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost as parents of Edmund Rice.

A scholarly investigation by Donald Lines Jacobus, considered by many as the dean of modern American genealogy, appeared in The American Genealogist, Volume 11, (1936), pp. 14-21. Jacobus traced many of the false accounts to the book by Dr. Charles Elmer Rice entitled "By the Name of Rice … ", privately published by Dr. Rice at Alliance, Ohio in 1911.

Edmund Rice deposed in a court document on 3 April 1656 that he was about 62 years old. Sudbury, England includes three parishes, two of which do not have complete records for the years near 1594, which is Edmund's most likely birth year. Thus, if he were born in Sudbury, England his records have been lost and we may never know his origin.

In his address to the 1999 annual meeting of the Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Gary Boyd Roberts, Senior Researcher, New England Historic Genealogical Society, reviewed all of the genealogical sleuthing on Edmund's parentage. Mr. Roberts is well known for his research on royal lineage. He concluded that there was no evidence whatsoever that supports the published accounts of Edmund Rice's parents and no evidence that Edmund Rice was from a royal lineage.

The Edmund Rice (1638) Association is very interested in proving the ancestry of Edmund Rice. The Association encourages anyone who can identify a primary source that names Edmund and his parents to identify that source. Records of a baptism, estate probate, or land transaction naming Edmund and his parents are the most likely records to contain that proof.

Until someone can cite such a record, the Association must state emphatically that Edmund Rice's parents and ancestry are not known and that Edmund Rice's descendants can not claim royal ancestry. He resided in 1627 at Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire County, England. He immigrated in 1639 to Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts,; was from Barkhamstead in Co. Herts, and of the first sett. 1639, appoint. to lay out the planta. freem. 13 May 1640, and among proprs. that yr. is a wid. Rice, perhaps his mo. was rep. in Oct. foll. and 1643, deac. and selectman. He "as a prominent man in the settlement. He early owned lands in and out of the town, some of which came by grant of the General Court. His first dwelling-place at Sudbury was on the old north street. Sept. 1, 1642, he sold this place to John Moore, and Sept. 13 of the same year leased for six years the Dunster Farm, which lay just east of Cochituate Pond. He bought of the widow Mary Axdell six acres of land and her dwelling-house, which were in the south part of town, and some years afterwards he bought of Philemon Whale his house and nine acres of land near "the spring" and adjacent to the Axdell place; and these taken together, in part at least, formed the old Rice homestead, not far from the "Five Paths." This old homestead remained in the Rice family for generations. Edmund sold it to Edmund, his son, who passed it to his sons John and Edmund, and afterwards John transferred his share of it to his brother Edmund, by whom it passed to others of the family, who occupied it till within the last half century. On Sept. 26, 1647, Mr. Rice leased the "Gover Farm" and what is now Weston; and June 24, 1659, the "Dunster Farm" was purchased by Mr. Rice and his son. He was one of the substantial men of the Sudbury plantation. He was a freeman May 13, 1640, and was one of the committee appointed by the Colonial Court, Sept. 4, 1639, to apportion land to the inhabitants. He served as selectman from 1639 to 1644, and was deputy to the General Court several successive years. He was prominent in the settlement of Marlboro, for which he was a petitioner in 1656. The Rice family in Sudbury have been numerous , and the name has been frequently mentioned on the town books." Quoted from the Annals of Sudbury, Wayland, and Maynard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He As reported later in this account of Edmund Rice, no record of his birth or christening has been found.¹ Deacon Edmund Rice married 1st Thomasine Frost, daughter of Edward Frost and Thomasine Belgrave, on 15 October 1618 at St Marys Church, Bury St Edmunds, co Suffolk, England.^3,2,4,5 Deacon Edmund Rice married Mercy Hurd (?) on 1 March 1655/56 at Sudbury, MA; (literally 1655) registered as Mary Brigham.^2,6 Deacon Edmund Rice died on 3 May 1663 at Sudbury, MA; (not found in the published records).^1,2 He was buried at Old Burying Ground, Wayland, MA; One possible site of the grave is marked by a monument designed by Arthur Wallace Rice of Boston, MA. It was dedicated by the Edmund Rice Association on 29 August 1914. A boulder with a bronze tablet was also erected by the Association and it marks Edmund's homestead on the Old Connecticut Path in Wayland.²
He and Thomasine Frost resided in 1627 at Berkhamstead, co Hertfordshire, England.^7,8
In 1638 Edmund Rice acquired 4 acres in then Sudbury (now Wayland) and laid out in the fall of that year. He was one of the first to build in the area. According to Massachusetts Colonial Records, Volume 1, page 271, on 4 September 1639 Edmund Rice was one of the committee appointed by the Massachusetts General Court to lay out the land in Sudbury.
Edmund Rice's house was situated on the "Old North Street", near Mill brook. He received his proportion of "Meadowlands", which were divided "to the present inhabitants" under dates of 4 September 1639, 20 April, and 18 November 164-, his share being 42 1/2 acres. He shared in all the division of Uplands and Commons - the total number of acres which fell to his lot, as an original inhabitant, was 247.^9,10

Deacon Edmund Rice was a Selectman in 1644 and subsequent years; a Deacon of the church in 1648, and, in 1656, one of the petitioners for a new plantation that became known as Marlborough at Sudbury, MA.¹¹ He was designated a Freeman on 13 May 1640 at Massachusetts.^12,13 Edmund Rice was recorded as being present as a Deputy at the Massachusetts General Court (legislative assembly) in Boston on 7 October 1640.¹⁴ On 2 June 1641 at Boston Edmund Rice was appointed an assosiate(sic) for the Courts and comission'r for the toune (sic) of Sudberry (sic).¹⁵ He was a deputy to the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (the Massachusetts legislature) representing the Town of Sudbury, serving on 27 May 1652, 18 May 1653, and 3 May 1654 between 1652 and 1654 at Boston, MA.¹⁶ He resided after 1656 at Marlborough, MA, lived on "The Great Road" on the northerly side of the pond (Cochituate Pond), not far from Williams Tavern. The pond is also spelled Wachittuate, Caochituet, Chochichawicke, Coijchawicke, Catchchauitt, Charchittawick, Katchetuit, Cochichawauke, or Cochichowicke.¹⁷
Twice in the 20th century nationally recognized research genealogists have attempted to determine the parents and ancestors of Edmund Rice. Mary Lovering Holman described the negative result of her search for records in the parishes near Stanstead and Sudbury, Suffolk County, England in “English Notes on Edmund Rice”, The American Genealogist, Volume 10 (1933/34), pp. 133 - 137. Mrs Holman is considered by many to be one of the best research genealogists in the 20th century. In 1997 the Edmund Rice (1638) Association commissioned Dr. Joanna Martin, a nationally recognized research genealogist who lives in Hitcham, Suffolk, England, only a few miles from Stanstead and Sudbury, to search again for records of Edmund Rice's parents. Dr. Martin reported in 1999 that she found no record that identified Edmund's parents or ancestral line.
Several authors of published works and computer data sets have claimed names for Edmund Rice's parents. Regrettably they have not given sources that would assist in definitive genealogical research. For example, the Ancestral File and International Genealogical Index, two popular computer data sets widely distributed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, offer parent candidates that include: Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, and Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost.
From Mrs. Holman's paper we have an excellent record of one Henry Rice's marriage to Elizabeth Frost in November 1605 at Stanstead. Mrs. Holman also documents the baptism of Edmund's first child on 23 August 1619 at Stanstead. If this is the Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost to which the LDS records refer, the LDS records must be erroneous. Our researchers have not been able to find records that support any Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, or Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost as parents of Edmund Rice.
A scholarly investigation by Donald Lines Jacobus, considered by many as the dean of modern American genealogy, appeared in The American Genealogist, volume 11, (1936), pp. 14-21 and was reprinted in the fall of 1968 and the winter of 1998 issues of Newsletter of the Edmund Rice (1638) Association. Jacobus traced many of the false accounts to the book by Dr. Charles Elmer Rice entitled "By the Name of Rice”, privately published by Dr. Rice at Alliance, Ohio in 1911.
Sudbury, England includes three parishes, two of which do not have complete records for the years near 1594, which is Edmund's most likely birth year. Edmund Rice deposed in a court document on 3 April 1656 that he was about 62 years old. Thus, if he were born in Sudbury his records have been lost and we may never know his origin.
In his address to the 1999 annual meeting of the Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Gary Boyd Roberts, Senior Researcher, New England Historic Genealogy Society, reviewed all of the genealogical sleuthing on Edmund's parentage. Mr. Roberts is well known for his research on royal lineage. He concluded that there was no evidence whatsoever that supports the published accounts of Edmund Rice's parents and no evidence that Edmund Rice was from a royal lineage.
The Edmund Rice (1638) Association is very interested in proving the ancestry of Edmund Rice. The association encourages anyone who can identify a primary source that names Edmund and his parents to identify that source. Records of a baptism, estate probate, or land transaction naming Edmund and his parents are the most likely records to contain that proof. Until someone can cite such a record, the association must state emphatically that Edmund Rice's parents and ancestry are not known and that Edmund Rice's descendants can not claim royal ancestry.^18,19,20
[S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, The Rice Family, p. 5.
[S3] Rice Gen'l Register, p. 1.
[S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, The Rice Family.
[S258] Harold F Porter, "The Strutt Ancestry of Thomasine Frost", p. 166.
[S1171] Letter, Dr Joanna Martin to Dr Robert V Rice, 13 November 1997.
[S2365] Sudbury MA, Sudbury, MA, Vital Records, p. 258.
[S53] Mary Lovering Holman, "TAG, Vol. X, Notes on Edmund Rice", p. 136.
[S120] David Kent Young, Young, Siobhan Eddy.
[S228] Josiah H Temple, Framingham Families, pp. 680-681.
[S1150] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Massachuestts colonial records, vol. I, p. 271.
[S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, The Rice Family, p. 1.
[S233] Lucius R. Paige, Freemen of Massachusetts.
[S1150] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Massachuestts colonial records, vol. I, p. 377.
[S1150] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Massachuestts colonial records, vol. I, p. 301.
[S1150] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Massachuestts colonial records, vol. I, p. 328.
[S1150] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Massachuestts colonial records, vol. 3, pp. 259, 297, 340.
[S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, The Rice Family, p. 2.
[S53] Mary Lovering Holman, "TAG, Vol. X, Notes on Edmund Rice", pp. 133 - 137.
[S60] D. L Jacobus, TAG - 11, pp. 14 - 21.
[S61] Mary Lovering Holman, The American Genealogist, p. 227.

     Deacon Edmund Rice was born on 13-Aug-1785. He was the son of Edmund Rice and Abigail Cutting. Deacon Edmund Rice married Abigail Maynard on 5-Oct-1809 at Sudbury, Massachusetts.

     General Edmund Rice was born on 2-Dec-1842 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the son of Moses Maynard Rice and Eliza (Ethel) Damon. General Edmund Rice married Elizabeth Huntington on 14-Jun-1881 at Cincinnati, Ohio. General Edmund Rice died on 20-Jul-1906 at Greenwood, Massachusetts, at age 63.
     General Edmund Rice served in the Union Army during Civil War in 1861 a Captain with the 19th Massachusetts Volunteers, in 1861; Colonel, 1864; Major and Lt. Colonel (brevits) for gallant service; and Brig. General. He served at Antietam, Gettysburg and the Wilderness.⁴ He appeared on the census of 1880 at Cambridge, MA; aged 38y, listed as an Army officer, living with his brother George.<sup>5

Before the Antietam Campaign:
After just under 3 years at college, he served on the crew of a sailing ship and voyaged to the Asian Pacific.1 At the outbreak of the War he enlisted as Captain in the 3-month 14th Massachusetts, and in August 1861 was commissioned Captain in the 19th Massachusetts. 2

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in the leg by artillery fire at Antietam.1,3

The remainder of the War:
He was commissioned major on October 1, 1862,2 and led the regiment at Gettysburg. He was wounded there, and received the Medal of Honor for his bravery and leadership at the battle.

He was again wounded, then captured, at the "Bloody Angle" at Spottsylvania in May 1864 but escaped from his captors enroute to prison and walked 400 miles to get back to Federal lines.3 He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 27 July 1864, and honorably mustered out of the Volunteer service 30 June 1865, still in command of the 19th.2

During the War he was cited at least 3 times, by brevet, for gallant service at Antietam, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness.2

After the War:
In July 1866 he was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the 40th US Infantry (Regular Army). He was assigned to the 5th Infantry 31 Dec 1870, serving as Regimental Adjutant (5 July 1879 to 10 Mar 1883). He made Captain 10 March 1883. He was appointed Lt Colonel and Inspector General in the US Volunteers during the Spanish-American War on 9 May 1898, and Colonel of the 6th Massachusetts Vol. Infantry 9 Aug 1898. He was promoted to Colonel of the 26th US Volunteer Infantry 5 July 1899, and again discharged from the Volunteers 13 May 1901.

Meanwhile he had received appointment as Major, USA, in the 3rd US Infantry as of August 1898 and as Lt Colonel of the 2nd US 2 Feb 1901. He was Colonel of the 19th US Infantry on 5 May 1902. He retired from the Army in 1903 as a Brigadier General [date of commission?].2

References, Sources, and other notes:
Photograph above is from the USAMHI, as published by Davis,4 who misidentifies Rice's unit as the 17th Michigan.

The USAMHI has at least one more photo of Rice in its Collection, a full standing pose.5 Rice is also featured in the Dale Gallon historical painting of the Battle of Gettysburg called "Clubs Are Trumps!"

Birth Date: 12/2/1842 Place of Birth: Cambridge, MA
College: Norwich University (VT), Class of 1860
Death Date: 7/20/1906 Death Place: Boston, MA Burial Place: Arlington National Cemetery, VA


Notes

1 Nitch, Steven, Brigadier General Edmund Rice, Published c. 1999, first accessed 01 January 2000, [AotW citation 457]

2 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, pp. 426-427 [AotW citation 458]

3 Poirier, Robert G., By The Blood Of Our Alumni: Norwich University Citizen-Soldiers In The Army of the Potomac, Mason City (Ia): Savas Publishing, 1998 [AotW citation 459]

4 Davis, William C., editor, and William A. Frassanito, photographic consultant, Touched by Fire: Photographic Portrait of the Civil War, 2 vol, single cover, New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 1997, pg. 262 [AotW citation 460]

5 US Army, Military History Institute (USAMHI), American Civil War (ACW) photographs, Military History Institute Photograph Database, Published c. 1998, first accessed 01 January 2005, , Source page: ID# RG98S-CWP13.105 [AotW citation 461].
http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=962</sup>

     Deacon Edmund (2) Rice was born on 9-Dec-1653 at Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Deacon Edward Rice and Agnes (Anna) Bent. Deacon Edmund (2) Rice married Joyce Russell, daughter of William Russell and Martha (?), on 13-Oct-1680 at Sudbury, Massachusetts. Deacon Edmund (2) Rice died on 25-Sep-1719 at age 65.
     Deacon Edmund (2) Rice Deacon Edmund Rice was born on 9 December 1653 at Sudbury, MA.^4,2,5 He was the son of Deacon Edward Rice and Agnes Bent. Deacon Edmund Rice married Joyce Russell, daughter of William Russell and Martha (?), on 13 October 1680 at Sudbury, MA.^6,2,7 Deacon Edmund Rice died on 25 September 1719 at Sudbury, MA.^8,2,9
Edmund Rice was a member of the church at Sudbury where he was a Deacon. He represented the Town of Sudbury in the Massachusetts General Court (legislative assembly) in 1707 at Boston, MA.¹⁰
On 6 June 1710 John Rice surrendered to his brother Edmund Rice, by deed, all his right to land "by the spring, and on which some part of Deacon Edmund Rice's house then stood"
"... at the request of Mr. John Rice and Deacon Edmund Rice, we have stated a way from John Rice's house by the southerly side of Deacon Edmund's house to THE SPRING, May 10, 1710.
Signed
John BrighamHopestill BrownDavid Haynes
Thomas FrinkJohn Balcom Selectmen.¹⁰ On 14 Nov 1718 Edmund and Joyce Rice convey to their son Jason: "...for love and good will, convey unto our son Jason Rice, all of Sudbury," their homestead, viz: "half the house, half the barn, two-thirds of the meadow land, orchard and pastures."⁸ The inventory of his estate, £451.1.0, was taken by Jonathan Rice, Richard Parks, and Edward Sherman on 19 November 1719. On 24 November 1719, Samuel Abbot and Joyce his wife; Joseph Parmenter and Lydia his wife; and William Rice and Martha his wife "convey all our right to Hon'd father Edmund Rice's estate in Sudbury or elsewhere to our brother, Jason Rice."⁸
[S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, The Rice Family, pp. 6, 17 - 19.
[S2] Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Rice Family - Supp 1, p. 2.
[S3] Rice Gen'l Register, p. 2.
[S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, The Rice Family, p. 6.
[S2365] Sudbury MA, Sudbury, MA, Vital Records.
[S1] Andrew Henshaw Ward, The Rice Family, p. 17, 19.
[S2365] Sudbury MA, Sudbury, MA, Vital Records, p. 258.

     Edna Rice was born on 13-Aug-1911. She was the daughter of Edward Lee Rice and Lucille Felton Haray.

     Edna Mae Rice was born on 26-May-1915. She was the daughter of Daniel Oliver Rice and Vicki Pearl Smith. Edna Mae Rice married Frank Joseph Bialek on 15-Mar-1941 at DeWitt County, Texas. Edna Mae Bialek died on 20-Feb-1982 at Yoakum, Texas, at age 66. She was buried at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Yoakum, Texas.
     The 1930 Federal Census enumerated her as a member of Daniel Oliver Rice's household.

     Edward Rice was born on 29-Jun-1672. He was the son of Samuel Rice and Mary Dix. Edward Rice married Lydia Fairbanks on 25-May-1702. Edward Rice died on 20-Jul-1741 at age 69.