Brief Life History of Christopher Waterman
When Christopher Waterman Rice was born on 15 November 1852, in Rhode Island, United States, his father, Harden B. Rice, was 36 and his mother, Phebe Ann Tenant, was 33. He married Catherine McGann on 26 May 1883, in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, United States in 1915. He died on 26 December 1918, in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States.
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- Christopher W Rice, "Rhode Island State Census, 1915"
- Christopher W. Rice, "Rhode Island, Marriages, 1724-1916"
- Christopher Waterman Rice, "Find A Grave Index"
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1862 · US Naval Academy
The US Naval Academy was moved to Newport, Rhode Island from its original in Annapolis, Maryland on May 9, 1862.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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