This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kIZ.2ACEB/494.540.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you so much for this information. I saw Ben Rice on a census somewhere that gave me the idea he was born in 1806. Do you know if that is correct. He was 74 at the time the census was taken. J. Martt

Benjamin Rice was born in VA (the 1880 census shows his father was born in France - mother in VA) - he was 74 on that census record which was in Carter Co KY and Matilda was shown as 70 then (Her birth place was shown as VA in 1850 but from 1860-1880 - she showed TN as birth place and I believe this is correct) They are on the Boyd Co 1870 census = he was 65 (an ore digger) and Matilda was 63. They were on the Boyd Co KY 1860 census - he was 54 (farmer) and Matilda was 51. They were on the Greenup Co KY 1850 census - he was 45 and Matilda was 42. They were in the 1830 and 1840 Greenup Co censuses (Benjamin Rice Sr was in the 1830 Greenup Co census and also an Elijah Rice Sr whom I believe to be the brother of Benjamin Sr.) At the time I did the census search I wasn't looking for Goads or Toler/Towler but I'm sure they are there if I had the time to go back and look again. Also in 1830 - Carter and Boyd Co's had not been formed yet - Greenup covered the entire area, so they probably stayed in one place, the county boundaries changed. Judy Atkisson