Ruth Rice

Brief Life History of Ruth

When Ruth Rice was born on 21 June 1813, in Greenup, Greenup, Kentucky, United States, her father, Ezekiel Rice, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Miller, was 30. She married Henry Wesley Gollihue on 8 September 1838, in Greenup, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Carter, Carter, Kentucky, United States in 1850. She died on 28 September 1887, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Newcombe, Elliott, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Wesley Gollihue
1811–1850
Ruth Rice
1813–1887
Marriage: 8 September 1838
Elihu Gollihue
1841–1913
Elizabeth Gollihue
1843–1931
Levi Gollihue
1846–1879

Sources (5)

  • Ruth Golahu, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Ruth Rice, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Ruth Rice Gollihugh Carter, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1818 · Jackson Purchase

The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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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