Eleanor Rice

Brief Life History of Eleanor

When Eleanor Rice was born about 1823, in Greenup, Greenup, Kentucky, United States, her father, Ezekiel Rice, was 47 and her mother, Elizabeth Miller, was 42. She married Elias Pleasant Mullins in August 1843, in Carter, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Little Sandy, Elliott, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Lake, California, United States in 1880. She died in 1892, at the age of 70, and was buried in Lower Lake, Lake, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elias Pleasant Mullins
1825–1879
Eleanor Rice
1823–1892
Marriage: August 1843
Susan A Mullins
1847–
Mary M L Mullins
1850–
Neroy Leferet Mullins
1852–
Lewis Napolean Mullins
1854–1918
Price Mullins
1857–
Sarah E. Mullins
1859–
J L Mullins
1860–
Martha E Mullins
1862–1890
Newton E R Mullins
1864–
Jerry Rice Mullins
1867–

Sources (14)

  • Eleanor R S Mullens in household of Elias Mullens, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Ellenor Rice, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Eleanor Rice Mullins, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1825 · The Crimes Act

The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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