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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

David Zener

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David Zener
birth: May 16, 1797 in Virginia to Mathias Zener and Garringer
death: January 5, 1877
burial: Paris, Jennings County, Indiana, burial Gaddy-Wykoff Cemetery, Paris, Jennings County, Indiana

marriage: May 5, 1818 in Hardinsburg, Breckenridge County, Kentucky
Phoebe Baker
birth: July 31, 1807 in Hagerstown, Maryland to Nicholas Baker and Barbara Miller
death:
burial: 1858 West Virginia

Children of Phoebe Baker and David Zener:

  • Elizabeth Zener, November 22, 1819-July 14, 1865 spouse, Lot V. Search
  • Magdalena Zener, November 1, 1821-April 16, 1905, never married
  • Lydia Zener, October 2, 1823-March 14, 1924, 3 spouses Robert Dixon, Robert Bain, John M. McJimsey.
  • Sarah Zener, April 8, 1826-April 30, 1894, Charles (Rodney) Kendall Lard/Laird (changed his name)
  • Catherine Servilla Zener, February 13, 1828-December 19, 1909, spouse George Troutman Foster.
  • Harriet Agnes Zener, February 7, 1830-September 2, 1900, spouse Joseph Ayers.
  • Mathias Zener, January 12, 1831- September 22, 1890, spouse Frances Unknown.
  • Malinda Zener, January 20, 1834-April 21, 1894, spouse Francis Marion Landon.
  • Henry M. Zener, January 6, 1836-November 26, 1903, never married.
  • David G. Zener, December 8, 1837-February 18, 1907, spouse Zerilda Gaddy.
  • Benjamin F. Zener, October 29, 1839-July 29, 1869, never married

Ancestor here lived in:

Jefferson County, Indiana

Additional information about person:
His Father was Mathias Zener a Hessian Solder in the Revolutionary War who was captured at the Battle of Yorktown and remained in America after the war. He married a German/American woman in Virginia after the war and died in Clark County Indiana in 1815.

By 1812 he was in Kentucky as he fought in the War of 1812 with the Kentucky Militia, married in 1818 in Breckenridge County, Kentucky – War of 1812 Bounty Land in Jefferson County, Indiana, all children born there.

During the Civil War, David Zener was one of those who opposed slavery and would purchase no products produced in the south – the family raised sheep and even imported silk worms and planted Mulberry Trees to feed them so they could weave all their own clothing. The name Zener is spelled various ways the most common being Zener or Zenor but those were not the only ones.

Submitted by:
Sheila Kell
Email: kfurballkell@aol.com