1882 History of Linn County, Missouri

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

 

MICHAEL RICE,                                                   Brookfield City et Township: 559

 

farmer, of Brookfield township, Linn county, Missouri, was born in Marion county, Ohio, February 4, 1839.  His parents removed to Cumberland county, Illinois, when he was an infant, and settled on a farm, where he lived until he was fourteen years old.  They next removed to Christian county, Illinois, where his parents died, on in 1858 and the other in 1859, the care of the younger portion of the family devolving on him.  He remained on the homestead and married in 1860.  In 1866 he sold his interest in the homestead and removed to Fayette county, Illinois, purchasing a farm in the vicinity of Vandalia.  He resided there two years, then selling out, came to Linn county, Missouri.  He was employed at farm work until 1877, when he bought his present fine farm near Brookfield.

   December 2, 1860, he married Miss Almira Scrivner of Taylorville, Illinois.  They have eight children, John Wesley, Mildred Caroline, George W. K., Olive Belle, Mary Agatha, Nettie Viola, Francis Alvian, and Louisa Gertrude, all living at home

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