TRUMBULL COUNTY, OHIO

1976

THE NEWS-JOURNAL

P.O. BOX 398

MACHIAS, MAINE 04654

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FOREWORD

While this family history, primarily intended as the descendants of Enoch and Olive Rice, 6th generation, is recognized as not being complete with all collateral names of various individuals and families, it is directly traced down to present day descendants. Quite lengthy, in names, including 14 generations some still living in this area of Ohio, it is further intended to record this work as a permanent listing for researchers interested in this family. I have connected this lineage back to the immigrant, 1st generation, Deacon Edmund Rice of Sudbury, Mass., and have included the known total results herein.

Enoch and Olive Rice came to Greene Township, Trumbull County, Ohio in 1818 with their son David Rice and his family. Enoch and Olive at this time were in their seventies. Enoch was a Soldier of the American Revolution having been associated with his brother-in-law General Rufus Putnam. General Putnam had married Enoch’s sister Persis. Enoch was descended from Deacon Edmund Rice. General Putnam, it is said, was a cousin of Israel Putnam, a Rice descendant. Enoch and Olive, their son David, and other family members had removed from Massachusetts to Brampton, Quebec, Canada, about 1800 and when the War of 1812 developed, by refusing allegiance to the King of England, had to return to the States. By way of New York and Western Pennsylvania they ultimately settled in Greene where another son Ephraim, and one of the original land-owners in the township, having purchased a tract from the Connecticut Land Company had settled in 1817, Ephraim, too, had returned to the States from Canada. Another son Levi, my forebear, settled in Greene in 1821. It is known he formerly lived in Washington County, New York, near Salem before coming to Ohio.

Olive Bruce, wife of Enoch, was said to be a descendant of Sir Robert Bruce of the famous Bruce’s of Scotland.

As a matter of interest in a late issue of the Cleveland press, under the caption, ‘The Coolidge Family Tree’ this appears, "President Coolidge is a descendant of Edmund Rice whom came from Bucks, England to Sudbury, Mass., in l636--Miriam Braden Wilson (1952+). I have also read several times, the wife of John Adams, and mother of John Quincy Adams, descended from this same Edmund Rice. She being the only American Lady to be so honored--the wife and mother of Presidents.

As a winter months hobby this project started for me some twenty years ago with curiosity and one known name, my great grandmother Emily N. Rice, superbly written in Spencerian style in the cover of an old book my grandmother, Harriet Lowry, had given me when I was a boy. I was desirous to find out from whence she came.

It has involved countless hours of research, the reading of old books excited an interest of antiquarian research that I delved into literally hundreds of volumes, library searching from practically all the libraries in the area, probate records, family bibles, personal interviews, U. S. Census records, visits to cemeteries, and the other usual methods necessary to glean this information. hue I do not profess to be a genealogist by now I feel fully competent and qualified. Being exposed to all the research tools and methods employed by professionals is an education in itself. I have thoroughly enjoyed satisfying my curiosity as a part time hobby.

Any errors or omissions noted are purely unintentional and I would welcome any type of help or information to make this history more exacting. Small bits of information, regardless of significance, often lead to complete facts for posterity. As of this date I know of no other attempt to comprehensively list the descendants of Enoch and Olive Rice.

HAROLD 0. LOWRY

6/30/75

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