1Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Mass., Vol. 4, p. 351 (1907), The Lewis Publishing Company.
URL = http://books.google.com/books?id=ByzhgLUOIRIC&pg=PA351&lpg=PA351&dq=%22Samuel+Rice%22+%22Mary+Dix%22&source=bl&ots=Y-ZJFNm_0W&sig=JJZ4sjbz0f4-sIblZVaoDszAbLo&hl=en&ei=scmIS_CiD5C0sgPN8OSEAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CA8Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=%22Samuel%20Rice%22%20%22Mary%20Dix%22&f=false This shows that the real mother of Edward Rice was Mary Dix and not Elizabeth King, who died 5 years before his birth.
"(II) Samuel Rice, fifth child of Edmund Rice (I), was born in England, 1634, and came when a child with his parents to America. He resided in Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts. He died in Marlborough, February 25 1684-5, aged about fiftry-one years. His will was dated February 10, 1684-5, and proved April 7, that year. He married (First), November 8, 1655, Elizabeth King, who died at Sudbury, October, 1667. He married (second), February 5, 1662, Mary (Dix) Brown, widow of Abraham Brown, Jr., who died at Sudbury, September, 1668; she died June 18, 1675. He married (third), December 13, 1676, Sarah Hosmer, widow of James Hosmer, Jr., who was killed by the Indians 1676 in King Philip's war; she was born October 13, 1658, and must have been pretty young when first married. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth Rice, born in Sudbury, were: Elizabeth, born October 26, 1656, married Peter Haynes; Hannah, born 1658, married Jonathan Hubbard; Joshua, born April 19, 1661, Married Mary -----; Edmund, born 1663, see forward; Esther, born at Marlboro, September 16, 1665, married ----- Hubbard; Samuel, born at Marlboro, October 14, 1667, married Abigail Clapp. Children of Samuel and Mary Rice were: Mary, born August 6, 1669; Edward, born June 20, 1672, married Lydia Fairbanks; Abigail, born March 10, 1673-74, married palmer Goulding. The only child of Samuel and Sarah was: Joseph, born May 16, 1678.
(III) Edmund Rice, son of Samuel Rice (2), was born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1663. ..."