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 3 sons and 3 daughters. 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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Sources (4)
- Ruth Rice, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Ruth Rice Gollihugh Carter, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1811–1850 Male
1813–1887 Female
Children (6)
1841–1913 Male
1843–1931 Female
1846–1879 Male
1848– Male
1850– Female
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Parents and Siblings
1777–1862 Male
1782–1836 Female
Siblings (11)
1801–1880 Female
1802–1870 Male
1804–1870 Male
1806–1881 Male
1810–1887 Female
+6 More Children
World Events (8)
1818 · Jackson Purchase
Age 5
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 6
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 23
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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