Avy Rice

Avy Owens Rice
BIRTH 27 Mar 1788
Tazewell County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 3 Nov 1858 (aged 70)
Benton County, Missouri, USA
BURIAL
Rice-Sone Cemetery
Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137845157/avy-rice

Children
Samuel Rice
Samuel O. Rice
1810–1879

William Rice
William R Rice
1813–1900

Elizabeth Askren
Elizabeth Ann Rice Askren
1816–1870

Catherine Rice
Catherine O Rice
1818–1845

John James Rice
1820–1888

Rebecca Barton
Rebecca Ann Rice Barton
1822–1907

Prudence Rice
Prudence Ellen Rice
1824–1904

Caroline Rice Rice
1826–1897

• Baptist Church member

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The original clipping is in Bible formerly belonging to John Barton & in Miss Eva Fromme's care:

"Nov. 3rd, 1858 at residence of her grandson, Mr. E. Kirby of Benton Co., Mo., Mrs. Avy Rice, relic of Andrew Rice, late of Cole Co. in the 71st year of her age. She was born in Shenandoah Co. Va. At the age of eight she removed to Kentucky, where she joined the Baptist Church in 1815. At the time of her death she had been a member of the church over 43 years.

"Sister Rice came to Mo. with her husband, in 1819. She not only contributed much to the support of a large family, but also to the obtaining of a respectable position in society.

"She died while on a visit to some of her relatives. Finding her dissolution approaching, she addressed her daughter, who accompanied her, in the language of pious resignation, desiring her to tell her friends not to mourn for her, but by Christian lived prepare to meet her hereafter.

"Though a beautiful place of internment was on her farm in Cole Co. She was at her own request buried where she died observing that 'all the earth is the Lords' (her body was later removed to Rice Cemetery)."

Andrew Rice and Avy Owens were married October 30, 1806 in Green River, Kentucky.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 16 2021, 14:27:40 UTC