Hi again, I'd like to continue with this story. I think I would invite the 2 RICE sisters, first, because I'd like to hear lots of stories about their growing up on the very large HUTCHINSON farm in Winchester, MA. (2 farmhouses across the street from each other) But, a few days later, I would invite their parents. There are too many things I don't know about Mrs. Adelaide RICE and her estranged husband, Charles RICE. I'll summarize what I know about them. Adelaide was born on the HUTCHINSON farm in 1851, and she had an older brother, George, and a sister (?). The sister died as a teen. George and Adelaide seem to have remained close. When their parents died in 1890's, they sold that farm out of the family. By that time the HUTCHINSON's who had remained in Winchester became "land rich and money poor." * Charles Wellington RICE was born in Lubec, Maine, in 1850 and was the youngest of 10 children. When he was ~20 he seems to have come down to Winchester, MA, to find work. He possibly became a laborer on the HUTCHINSON Farm, and probably that's how he met Adelaide. They married in 1875 and then had the 2 daughters. But the 1880 census shows the 2 very young daughters living on the Farm with their grandparents. I recently found out that Adelaide was in a State Hospital, and Charles moved out of the home. It took me many years to find out what happened to Charles in 1880. At some point he became a live-in Gardener in a mansion in a city south of Boston. It seems he remained in close tough with one of his sisters who had also moved down to MA (McNEAR), and she and her children helped him when he was diagnosed with cancer. He died in 1916. When I was Age 2 to 9 and lived with "Grandma KIDDER" on the Farm in Winchester, there was never any talk about "Grandpa KIDDER." I had to find out about him by myself. And I don't remember hearing anything about Grandma's father. So, I don't know if she and her sister had a relationship with their father from 1880 to 1916. So, I would invite Charles and Adelaide to dinner to find out how they met and why they "separated." And I'd like to know if Charles remained in contact with his children. I hear that Adelaide was not an easy person to live with, and I wonder whether she contributed to her daughter's unhappy marriage. By the way, Adelaide's older brother, George HUTCHINSON, was divorced from his first wife, and might have been divorced from his 2nd wife. He only had one child, Carleton. Carleton married and had 2 children, but divorced the first wife and then remarried. The first wife moved to Cambridge, MA, with her 2 children. The 2 children were still alive when I was growing up, and I don't remember hearing anything about them. The son, Leslie, became a doctor and lived in the next town, and I didn't find out about him until about a year ago. (His sister never married.) He only had one child, and Robert HUTCHINSON never married and then was killed in a car accident. So that was the end of the HUTCHINSON males from Winchester. (I haven't found any descendants of an uncle, John HUTCHINSON, who moved to Brooklyn, NY, in ~1860.) Anyways, I'd like to hear "the truth" and the "rumors" about Charles and Adelaide RICE from 1875 to ~1920, and would like to know if they remained in contact with each other after they "separated." (Neither remarried.) Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator * As far as I know, John HUTCHINSON and his 2 married sisters who "left the farm" and "moved to the city" - Brooklyn, NY, became successful business people. I know the 3 couples remained there and raised their children there, and might have died there. But, I don't know if they helped out their not-so-successful siblings back in Winchester, MA. (Adelaide's 2 cousins, siblings, Thomas and Mary HUTCHINSON, living across the street on the 2nd Farm - never married. So, of the 2 families who remained living on the large farm in Winchester, there was either "divorced" or "never married." And, I've been curious - why ! )