Brief Life History of Ira
When Ira Rice Sr was born on 28 October 1793, in New Ashford, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Titus Rice, was 49 and his mother, Lois Kellogg, was 41. He married Minerva Saxton in 1814, in Manchester, Ontario, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1847 and lived in Weber, Utah, United States for about 6 years and Cache, Utah, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1812. In 1844, at the age of 50, his occupation is listed as appointed postmaster in Cattaraugus, New York, United States. He died on 14 April 1868, in Washington, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Washington City Cemetery, Washington, Washington, Utah, United States.
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- Ira Rice, "United States Census, 1840"
- Ira Rice and Sarah Harrington, 1825, NY, in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Ira Rice, "BillionGraves Index"
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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.
1808
Historical Boundaries 1808: Cattaragus, New York, United States
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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