This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. The message author may or may not be a member of this mailing list, so please click on the URL below to respond to thise message; otherwise the poster might not see your response. Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nZB.2ACE/195.3.2 Message Board Post: Hey there!! I have talked with Leroy Howard's wife Jane and Betty Jean in Olathe. She was a very talkative person. Their father Walter Harold Rice was my great Uncle through his brother Charles Earnest. This Rice family left in all different directions for some reason between 1910 and 1920. My Charles contracted TB and moved to Arizona in '27, your Walter left before then and went to Idaho, Oregon area. Another brother, Jefferson Evan came back from WWI and settled in Kentucky(where the earliest Rices were from) The oldest son, I think died in 1917 and is buried in Joplin. There is one brother, George W. that I have not found anything at all on. The sister Stella, married and stayed in and around Joplin until her death. If you are interested in anything or have anything to contribute, please feel free to email me directly. I got into this for my Mom. She wanted to know about her Rice family and consequently has now found kin folk all over the place. Thanks for getting in touch!! Kay Bensuk Houston, TX