Brief Life History of George Ernest
When George Ernest Rice was born on 27 February 1889, in Belton, Anderson, South Carolina, United States, his father, Joel Towers Rice, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Adeline “Sadie” McGee, was 37. He married Alwildia F Chase before 1917. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Belton Township, Anderson, South Carolina, United States in 1900 and Election Precinct 37, Pueblo, Colorado, United States in 1940. He died on 22 May 1982, in DeKalb, Georgia, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Arlington Memorial Park, Sandy Springs, Fulton, Georgia, United States.
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- George E Rice, "United States Census, 1940"
- George Ernest Rice, "South Carolina, Delayed Birth Certificates, 1766-1900"
- George Ernest Rice, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1893 · The Last Public Hanging in Georgia
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
1914 · The Ludlow Massacre
On April 20, 1914, the Colorado national Guard and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards, attacked striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 25 people, including miners, women, and children.
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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