Brief Life History of Daisy Dean
When Daisy Dean Rice was born on 26 August 1873, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States, her father, Joel Towers Rice, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Adeline McGee, was 21. She married Howard Andrew Littlejohn about 1903, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Lake Wales, Polk, Florida, United States in 1935 and Election Precinct 32 Starr Lake, Polk, Florida, United States in 1940. She died on 21 August 1963, in Palm Beach, Florida, United States, at the age of 89.
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Sources (8)
- Daisy Littlejohn in household of Howard A Littlejohn, "Florida State Census, 1935"
- Daisy Rice in entry for Enoch Blair Littlejohn, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
- Daisy R Littlejohn in household of Howard Littlejohn, "United States Census, 1940"
Spouse and Children
1878–1952 Male
1873–1963 Female
Children (4)
1904–2000 Male
1906–2001 Female
1908–1995 Male
1910–1999 Male
Parents and Siblings
1849–1940 Male
1851–1907 Female
Siblings (10)
1873–1963 Female
1875–1953 Female
1876–1942 Male
1877–1966 Female
1880–1942 Male
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
Age 2
1878 · St. Mary's Episcopal Church is Built
Age 5
1898 · War with the Spanish
Age 25
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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