When Alexander Alcaney Rice was born on 14 June 1860, in Magoffin, Kentucky, United States, his father, Martin Van Buren Rice, was 21 and his mother, Nancy Whitaker, was 18. He married Margaret Cynthia Pace about 1882. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 1, Magoffin, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Ivyton, Magoffin, Kentucky, United States in 1910. He died on 18 February 1949, in Magoffin, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Burning Springs, Floyd, Kentucky, United States.
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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.
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