Margaret Rice

Brief Life History of Margaret

When Margaret Rice was born on 14 February 1873, in Falls Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States, her father, Frank Rice, was 37 and her mother, Margaret Beneline, was 34. She died on 1 June 1963, in Muskingum, Muskingum, Ohio, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Frank Rice
1835–1901
Margaret Beneline
1839–1886
John J. Rice
1860–1904
Frank Rice
1862–1895
Elizabeth Rice
1864–
Annie Rice
1869–
Margaret Rice
1873–1963
Helen Rice
1878–

Sources (6)

  • Margaret C Rice in household of Frank Rice, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Maggie Reis, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
  • Margare Rice, "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007"

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1875 · A New Civil Rights Act

During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

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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