This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VUB.2ACE/310.1.1 Message Board Post: Debbi, Where are you on your Rice line. William Bryant's Will shows that his "daughter, Mary M. Rice, wife of Henderson Rice" was acknowledged in his Will. When William Bryant's wife, Susan Bryant died, in 1865 she left her daughter Polly Rice, wife of Henderson Rice $100.00. (At that time Polly was a common nickname for Mary.) The Bryant's other daughter, Mourning Rice, wife of Nickerson N. Rice was left $400. Mary or "Polly" and Mourning's brothers were: Gideon B. Bryant, Thomas N. Bryant, and it sounds as if there were other brothers, William T. Bryant and Evan N. Bryant. There is also another Will written in 1855 of Martha Rice in which she acknowledges her son Henderson Rice as the executor of her Will. John Rice, Senior, acknowledges his son Henderson Rice in his Will of 1845.