Rice Families

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Permalink Reply by Dori Emerson Lloyd on October 11, 2013 at 12:11pm

There are quite a few Rice's in Union County, near Spartanburg, and also Anderson County, a bit farther to the west.  You might start looking there--I'm looking into my own Rice family in that area, so if I find an Ervin Foster Rice I'll let you know...  I have found familysearch.org very helpful--not so much the "search" template, but go to the bottom of the search page and click on United States and it takes you to a list of states with their databases that you can browse--time consuming and sometimes hard to navigate, but if you have some time, it's very interesting. 

Here is the South Carolina section: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1&countryI...

Happy Hunting!  Dori :-]

Permalink Reply by Dulcie Verner Fusillo on January 9, 2014 at 7:42pm

Dori,

I also know of at least 3 Hezekiah Rices that were more or less contemporaries.  One was born in MA (around Framingham  and he was a Rev War patriot) , I believe the other two were born in VA.  At least 2 of them were Rev. War patiriots.  One Hez Rice,  married to a Mary Leftwich, ended up in Anderson Co., SC.  Another Hez Rice also married a Mary and is buried in Union Co., SC.  The Hez Rice who is buried in Anderson Co., SC was, I believe the son of Hez Rice b. in VA and buried in Caswell Co., NC and was a Rev. War patriot.I keep going around and around with this family.  Anything you can add or correct would be welcome.