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James M. Rice (Lawrence County, attorney.)

b. 1802

Lawrence County, Kentucky, judge and attorney. Virginia native. Married to Jane H. Burns Rice. Father of Jacob Rice, John M. Rice, Sarah J. Rice, Amanda Rice. Married to Matilda Brown Rice. Circuit Judge in Lawrence County in 1850. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Lawrence County in 1850. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Lawrence County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

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, Lawrence County, p. 475.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 333A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Catlettsburg, p. 105B.

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.

Citation

Rice, James M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199641 (January 24, 2026).

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