Loyal Alton Rice

Male11 November 1905–25 June 1971

Brief Life History of Loyal Alton

When Loyal Alton Rice was born on 11 November 1905, in Idaho, Idaho, United States, his father, Bailey Frank Rice, was 23 and his mother, Emma Jala Alkire, was 17. He married Bertha Ione Webb on 24 December 1923, in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Kellogg, Shoshone, Idaho, United States in 1930 and Mesa Election Precinct, Adams, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 25 June 1971, in Lucile, Idaho, Idaho, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Riggins, Idaho, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Loyal Alton Rice
1905–1971
Bertha Ione Webb
1903–2006
Marriage: 24 December 1923
Richard Frank Rice
1929–2001
Jerald Leroy Rice
1931–1937

Sources (17)

  • Loyal A Rice, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Loyal Alton Rice, "Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1911"
  • Loyal Alton Rice, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    24 December 1923Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States
  • Children (2)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (5)

    World Events (8)

    1906 · Saving Food Labels

    Age 1

    The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

    1906 · Licencing Butchers

    Age 1

    A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

    1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

    Age 18

    Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

    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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