Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

MOSES M. RICE, Muhlenburgh [sic] County, was born March 8, 1817, where he 
now resides.  He is the tenth of six boys and girls, born to Ezekiel and Ann
(Watkins) Rice, natives of Virginia, and of English descent.  Ezekiel was a
son of William Rice, who was a gunsmith and blacksmith, and repaired guns
during the Revolution; he moved with his family to Washington County, Ky., in
1784; thence to Muhlenburgh in 1810, where on their first coming they lived 
in forts.  Ezekiel Rice was a soldier under Gen. Wayne about 1794.  He died 
in 1847, aged seventy-five years.  Moses M. [apparently line missing] and 
reared on a farm,  and lived with his parents until their death; his mother 
died in 1836, aged fifty years.  Mr. Rice has followed farming all his life, 
and is the owner of 200 acres of land in good condition.  He was married in 
November, 1844, to Sarah A. Drake, of Muhlenburgh County, a daughter of Moses 
E. and Lurana (Wills) Drake, natives of North Carolina, and of English 
descent.  To this union were born nine children: John M., Ann L. (Faghender), 
Ezekiel C., in Illinois; Francis P. (deceased), Susan M. (Martin), James J., 
Benjamin M., Jane R. and Sarah E. (twins).  Mrs. Rice died in January, 1873, 
a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Rice next married in 
April, 1876, Ruth A. Drake; she died in October, 1880, a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church; he is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Rice Watkins Drake Wills Faghender Martin
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VA Washington NC

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