Brief Life History of Abel M
When Abel M Rice was born on 5 September 1792, his father, Ebenezer Rice, was 36 and his mother, Ruth Henrietta Eveleth, was 34. He married Lydia Gholson on 11 October 1816, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 18 March 1846, in White, Illinois, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Dahlgren, Hamilton, Illinois, United States.
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- Able Rice, "Find A Grave Index"
- Legacy NFS Source: Able Rice - Individual or family possessions: burial: ; Rice Cemetery, Indian Creek Township, White, Illinois, United States
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1806
The earliest date of settlement we can trace i6 1806, when George Bain’s father is said to have come here with his family 1815: White, Illinois Territory, United States 1818: White, Illinois, United States
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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