On the 1860 census of Salacoa, Cherokee Co. GA. , Page 250&251 #1815-1925 H.P. Rice age 40 b. SC, Lavina 39 b. Nc. and children all b. GA . Martha 18, John C. 17, Franklin 15, Sarah 11, Amanda 9, Mary A. 7, Lewis C. 12, Susan 6, (D?)ikey female 2, Hope this helps! Now question for you? Do you have a Nancy Rice born about 1794? She married Thomas Anderson probably in SC the moved from Edgefield SC to Henderson/Buncombe Co. NC about 1827? > [Original Message] > From: Ivaleine Kay Cooper <ikcooper@pacbell.net> > To: <GACHEROK-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 4/9/2006 4:55:46 PM > Subject: [GACHEROK-L] Missed the Roll Call - Rice Family > > My great grandfather was born in Cherokee County. His name was John Calvin > Rice. His exact age has been a controversy within the family. He claimed > to be only 16 when he entered the Civil War (Co. I, 36th GA Regiment, GA > Volunteer Infantry,) but he enlisted as being at least 10 years older than > this. In several census records, his birth year is listed as 1843 or 44. > This would have been more accurate for being 16 at the time he enlisted. In > his pension records, he does not give a year of birth, but his birth year > would have been about 1830 or 32, from his statements about his age. His > first wife was Martha Kelly/Kelley. I believe John Calvin is the son of > Humphrey Posey Rice and Leviny Kuykendall Rice. They had a son John C, born > abt 1844. I have been in touch with other descendants of Humphrey and > Leviny. We all agree that my John C is probably their son. > > John Calvin's first 3 children were born in Cherokee Co. In 1880 they are > listed in the Murray Co census. Martha and John moved just north of Little > Rock, AR by the 1880's. Martha died 1882 and is buried in the Mount Pisgah > Cemetery, on what is now Camp Robinson Property in North Little Rock. (There > were a couple of Kelley's that mustered into the CSA on the same day as John > Calvin.) John married again after Martha died, but had no children that > lived to adulthood by his second wife. He married a third time to my great > grandmother, Eliza Jane Price Smith. John Calvin died in April 1937 in > Stone Co, AR. > > I am trying to get a Rice family member to consent to the DNA testing to > prove that he is related to the Humphrey Posey line. > > Kay Cooper, Atwater, CA > Researching (Cooper, Norman, Coggin, Holleman for paternal lines; Tyler, > Rice, Holliman, Jackson, Price, Kuykendall for maternal lines.) > > > ==== GACHEROK Mailing List ==== > GACHEROK-L mailing list archives. Search by name, etc. > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GACHEROK > RootsWeb Threaded Mailing List Archives. > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/ > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx