RICE

Information on this page from Windows Into Our Past, A Genealogy of the Parsons, Smith and Associated Families, Vol. 1 ©1996, Judy Parsons Smith

In Montgomery Co. , VA.  on 5 Mar 1782, Doswell Rogers  together with John Rice  (possible father of Lucinda Rice ), posted bond for John Roberts .

John M.C. Rice

John M.C. Rice , b.  1770; m. ___________ .  John MC Rice had children:

1.  Orville , b. 1794, Connecticut ; m. Margaret  (possibly Jones), b. 1805, Tennessee .
2.  Lucinda ,  b. 1801, North Carolina ; m.  Jess Rogers , b. 1801, Hawkins Co., TN.  SEE ROGERS

Orville Rice

1. Orville Rice , son of John M.C. Rice , b. 1794, Connecticut ; m. Margaret  (possibly Jones), b. 1805, Tennessee . Orville & Margaret Rice  are shown in the 1850 Hawkins Co., TN Census as follows:

91/787   Orville Rice           56          b. Conn
            Margaret            45          b. TN     
                Horace                 15
            John                       12
            Atwater                    8
            Jane                       28
            Margaret                22
            Florida                    9
            John M.C.             80
            Elizabeth               68
            W. D. Jones          44
            Mary Jones           35
            James Jones      18
            Lucy Jones           22
               Lassy Jones          4
              Jonathan Jones    21

Lucinda Rice

2.  Lucinda Rice , probable daughter of John M.C. (McClellan) Rice [John M.C. Rice, b. ca. 1770]; b. 1801, North Carolina; d. bef 1879, Scott Co., VA, she may be buried in Pattonsville; , VA; m. Jesse Rogers , son of Thomas  & Jean/Jane Rogers ; b. 1801, Hawkins Co., TN[i]; d. between 1864/65, England Valley, Scott Co., VA[ii].

At the out break of the Civil War Jesse and his family were in Scott County, Virginia.  Due to a strong Union sentiment and outspoken opposition to the war, he was taken as a prisoner during the time that the Confederacy held Scott County and held in a Confederate prison.  (Possibly Andersonville)  He came home after the war almost starved and in broken health.  Jesse Rogers  was a landowner and land dealer in both Tennessee and Virginia.

Jesse and Lucinda (Rice)  Rogers   had at least (8) eight children:

2.1.  Thomas , b. 1819, Hawkins Co., TN; d. 1863-1865, killed, for some unknown  reason, in mountains (did not serve during Civil War); m. Nancy Louisa Lewis .
2.2.  Erastus Dauswell , b. 1821, Hawkins Co., TN; m-1st Sarah  (Gibson?) ; m-2nd to 18 Nov 1893, Harlan Co., KY to Eliza Lawson , daughter of  Wm. Lawson ,  b.  Lee Co., VA; m-3rd Charlotte Miller ; m-4th Eliza  Brooks .  He did not fight during the Civil War.
2.3.  Edmond,  b. 1825, Hawkins Co., TN; d. 1861-1865; m. Elizabeth Mary Tyee . See Rogers.
2.4.  Caliway , b. 1830, Hawkins Co., TN; m. 6 Dec 1853, Scott Co., VA to Winney Anderson .  They had moved to Missouri prior to 1879.
2.5.  Arthur , b. 19 Aug 1831, Scott Co., VA; d. 25 Jun 1920, Missouri; m-1st 11 Jan 1805 to Alcy Lawson ; m-2nd 1880, Missouri to Rebecca Ingram Johnson .  He fought during the Civil War and then moved to Taney County, Missouri in 1879.
2.6.  Patton M.C. [, b. 1835/36, Scott Co., VA; d. 1 Aug 1864, Hancock Co., TN - killed; m-1st Malinda Tyree , b. Maryland; m-2nd to Mahala Bledsoe .  Patton Rogers  fought in the Civil War.  He came home to gain strength from a spell of sickness, and was ambushed from corn field while sitting in the sun at the kitchen door of his home.
2.7.  sister , *d. winter?

 *In the Scott Co. Cemetery Records there is a record of two small graves in a hallway of a barn on land where Jesse & Lucinda once lived.  It is speculated that 7 and 8 died during a terrible winter, at the time the ground was frozen so deep the only place that they were able to dig graves to bury the girls was in the barn hallway.