Brief Life History of Mary Ellen
When Mary Ellen Rice was born on 6 February 1858, in McLouth, Jefferson, Kansas, United States, her father, Larkin Elza Rice, was 28 and her mother, Nancy Elizabeth Morris, was 22. She married William Reynolds Gibson on 18 October 1874, in Union Township, Jefferson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Union Township, Jefferson, Kansas, United States in 1870 and Jefferson Township, Jefferson, Kansas, United States for about 35 years. She died on 11 January 1925, in Winchester, Jefferson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Wise Cemetery, Winchester, Jefferson, Kansas, United States.
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- Mary E Gibson, "Kansas State Census, 1915"
- Mary E Rice, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- Mary Ellen Rice Gibson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Montgomery, Kansas, United States
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized pronunciation of one of the most common Welsh personal names, Rhys, from a form originally meaning ‘rash, impetuous’, also spelled Rys and Re(e)s. See also Reese , with which it is interchangeable as a result of different Anglicized forms of the Welsh vowel y, and also compare Preece and Price . Initial R- in Welsh is voiceless and often spelled Rh-, but in English R- is voiced as in the Anglicized surnames Rees and Rice. Welsh y is a short back vowel /ɪ/. In the medieval period the English approximation of this vowel was either /i/ or /e/, lengthened to /i:/ and /e:/. Subsequent sound changes in English produced the alternative pronunciations represented in Rees, Preece and Rice, Price. The name has also been established in Ireland from an early date.
English: either a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a thicket (Middle English ris, rice, ris, from Old English hrīs, Old Norse hrís), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place called with this word, such as Rise (East Yorkshire).
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English Rys(e) and Re(e)s which when without a preposition could derive from one or other of several Old French and Middle English words, including Anglo-Norman French ris ‘laughter, smile’, Middle English ris, res ‘stem, stalk’, in origin the same word as in 2 above, and Middle English ris, rise, rice, res, Old French ris, riz ‘rice’, perhaps a nickname for a rice dealer or a cook.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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