Or, Subtitled: From Virginia Farms to Kentucky Ironworks
I’ve listed Elizabeth as the second of George and Elizabeth Brooks Rice’s children, though it’s possible that her sister Mary was older, and that Elizabeth and not Ruth was even the oldest of George Rice and Elizabeth Brooks and George Rice’s children. The previously cited August 1802 list of George and Elizabeth’s children found in the case file of the Augusta County, Virginia, chancery court case filed by Province McCormick against George’s executors places Elizabeth first in the list of children.[1] But the 15 April 1808 complaint of Bartholomew Smith in his chancery suit against George Rice’s heirs and children, also previously discussed, which seems to me to have a more correct list of George and Elizabeth’s children by order of birth, lists Ruth first, followed by Mary and then Elizabeth.[2]
Begats and Bequeathals 
I find this document very interesting. I am looking for the parents of a George Rice from Big Sandy, Kentucky who married Easter Hurst in 1856
Do you have more information about the George Rice (son of Jehu Rice and Elizabeth Biggs) on this record?
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Thank you for your comment. I’m glad this was of interest. My records indicate that George Rice, son of John Jehu Rice and Mary Elizabeth Biggs, married Catherine Fritz in Greenup County, Kentucky, on 26 December 1854 and died 16 February 1917 at York in Athens County, Ohio.
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