Celebrating Our Rice Family Diversity

Description: RICE FAMILY HISTORY: BOOK 1 - Celebrating Our Diversity This is the first of three books published as part of the Rice Family Book Project. Its 248 pages contain biographies of dozens of Rice family members from different backgrounds, different decades and different branches of the family. There is also a directory of Rice Revolutionary War soldiers. Coverage includes all North American branches of the Rice family. There are more than 50! How diverse are we? Age: From the baby born just after its father was killed on a Revolutionary War battlefield to some who lived past 100. Where from: England, Ireland, Scotland, Switzerland, Austria, Germany. There are even American Indians with Rice blood in their veins.The Rice Immigrants Rices were among the first immigrants more than 380 years ago. Their descendants cleared the land, built the first villages, helped expand the frontier westward and then played varying roles in defining the shape of its more recent history. They pioneered beyond the mountains and across the plains, founding banks, building cities, operating productive farms, planning railroads, teaching children, preaching the gospel and founding commercial enterprises. At least half of them came from humble beginnings.Rice Heros and Heroines The early Rices and their descendants were heroes and heroines, portraying varying facets of the human spirit. There were Rice descendants of compassion, such as Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, and Delia Delight Rice, who founded a school for the deaf and blind. There were those of intellectual breadth and nurturing depth, such as Abigail Adams, wife of one U. S. president and mother of another. There were those who soared in adventure, such as “Lady Jack” (Rice) Lang, who, in a 1909 flight over Washington with airplane inventor Wilbur Wright, became the first woman airplane passenger.Rices Part of American History They played a part in American history—men and women whose acts, great and small, are stitches in the woven fabric of our nation’s event-laden history. They were Revolutionary War patriots, they created inventions, they entertained royalty. Some married into families of the Mayflower pilgrims. Poor Sarah Rice was arrested for witchcraft in 1692 and imprisoned in Boston. (It was discovered three centuries later that the witchcraft delusion was caused by a grain fungus that caused hallucinations.) In 1704, five little Rice boys were abducted from their Massachusetts home by Indians and taken to Canada, where one eventually became a chief. Two U. S. presidents were Rice descendants.Today, thousands of living Rice descendants no longer bear the Rice surname. Yet they proudly add Rice ancestors to their pedigree.This book, and those that follow in the Rice Book Project, are the work of dozens of contributing family history buffs, known as the genealogists among us. We owe them hearty thanks! This is the soft cover edition. Discounts are available for those ordering copies as gifts for family members. (There is a waiting list for hard-cover editions.)

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