William E. Rice

Birth Date

1830

Death Date

1901

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John Rice and Julia A. Rice. Student in Bath County in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Bath County in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from September 9, 1862, to September 16, 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, 98A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, 269.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 87.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 87.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 255.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 944.
Find A Grave, “William Edgar Rice (1830-1901)," Memorial #110959856, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110959856/william-edgar-rice (accessed November 17, 2020).

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