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Lewis W. Rice

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Lewis W. Rice
birth: 24 November 1823 in Shelby, Kentucky to Jesse Rice and Martha Wilcoxson
death: 15 February 1896, in Bowling Green, Washington Township, Clay, Indiana
burial: Bowling Green, Washington Township, Clay, Indiana

marriage: 5 September 1844 in Clay, Indiana
Ann Miles
birth: 22 July 1826 in Parke, Indiana to Samuel Miles and Hannah Ghormley
death: 15 Feb 1896 in Bowling Green, Clay, Indiana
burial: Bowling Green, Clay, Indiana

Children of Ann Miles and Lewis W. Rice:

  • James Miles Rice 1845-1901 m. Emma Jeffries
  • Jesse J. Rice 1846-1921 m. Indiana Hawkins
  • Jane Rice 1848-1936 m. Marrimon Zenor
  • Samuel Rice 1850-?
  • Caroline Rice 1852-? m. Levi Mendenhall
  • Enos Rice 1854-?
  • William Hickson Rice 1856-1941 m. Florance Ann O’Brien
  • Emma Rice 1863-1945 m1 William Godfrey m2 Finley Day m3 James Bohannon m4 William Seymour
  • Ulysses Grant Rice 1865-1936 m. Cora Smith
  • Anna Rice 1868-1922 m. Milton Oberholtzer
  • Hannah Rice 1871-?

Ancestor here lived in:

1844 Clay, Indiana
1844-1896 Bowling Green, Washington, Clay, Indiana

Other Information:

Also lived in Shelby, Kentucky.

Submitted by:
Sharon Rice Barnes
Email: barnes@lclark.edu

Frances Herndon

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Frances Herndon
b. 1791–92, Culpepper or Madison County, Virginia, to William and Mary (Bohannon) Herndon
d. 29 January 1865, Sangamon County, Illinois

m/1. 5 March 1812, Franklin County, Indiana
Henry Hammons

m/2. 13 February 1823, Franklin County, Indiana
Elisha James
b. about 1775, Maryland
d. 14 October 1841, Rush County, Indiana

Children with Henry Hammons:

  • Harrison (1812–1891)
  • Nancy (b. ca. 1820)

Children with Elisha James:

  • George B.
  • Frances “Fanny”

The minutes of the Pleasant Run Baptist Church recorded the death of Elisha James in the fall of 1841 in these exact words: “All the neighborhood attended the burying of Brother Elisha James last week; everybody know about it, why bother to record the fact.”

About 1841, and before the 1850 census, Frances and her children, Nancy Hammons, and George B. and Fanny James, moved from Rush County, Indiana, to Sangamon County, Illinois, to be near her brother, Archer Gray Herndon. Archer, who had been known as a great Indian fighter, assisted Frances in making a home and taking care of her children. She did seamstress work and tailoring for local residents.

Archer Gray Herndon and Abraham Lincoln and seven others were members of the “Long Nine”, the group that was instrumental in establishing Springfield as the capitol of Illinois. Archer’s son, William Henry Herndon, was the law partner of Abraham Lincoln and after Lincoln’s death wrote a three-volume biography of Lincoln.

Archer Gray Herndon, Frances Herndon James, and Abraham Lincoln are all buried at Oak
Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.

Submitted by:
Sharon Hohimer
Chatham IL