Janean, Your Rices came out of Virginia, I believe. Mine came out of Massachusetts. The only possible connection that I have come across over the years is the possibility -- with an emphasis on possibility -- that the immigrant on your line was a brother (or nephew, or very close relative) of Edmund Rice who immigrated to Mass. in 1638. I think some of yours went to SC, and some went to TN around Davidson and Maury County, but some were in Livingston Co., KY (and another county or two in the vicinity) before they moved from there to White Co., IL. Christine Rice of Carbondale, IL, is more knowledgeable about your Rice family than anybody I know. She lives on Emerald Lane in Carbondale. We corresponded before e-mail, so I don't know whether she has that capability now or not. You could look her up in the internet white pages for her address and telephone number. This doesn't mean that we are not related, Janean -- just not through that line. As I recall, you are descended through the Benbrooks. That line is connected through my Sneeds and Malones. Shirley Malone Fritsche