John McConnell Rice, Sr.

Birth Date

1831

Death Date

1895

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Pike County and Lawrence County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of James M. Rice and Jane H. Burns Rice. Stepson of Matilda M. Brown Rice. Married to Sarah Pogue Rice. Father of Eliza Jane Rice, Ida Rice, Ada Rice, James William Rice, and John M. Rice, Jr. Law student in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned fourteen enslaved persons in Lawrence County in 1850. Graduated from the Law Department of the University of Louisville. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Pike County from 1859 to 1861. Attorney in Pike County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Pike County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, pp. 75B-76A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pike County, District 1, p. 976.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pike County, District 1, p. 193B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Precinct 9, p. 271B.
Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men and Families of the State (Chicago: John M. Gresham Company, 1896), 335.
Lewis Collins and Richard II. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 679.
William Ely, The Big Sandy Valley: A History of the People and Country from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Catlettsburg, KY: Central Methodist, 1887), 55-66.
"John McConnell Rice (1831-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial 19719912, accessed January 20, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19719912.

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