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Hyrum Smith Rice
Hyrum Rice was born in 1844 in Nauvoo, Illinois. Hyrum traveled across the plains to Utah with his siblings in the Heber C. Kimball Company. His sick mother died soon after her children left for Utah. Hyrum married Olive Smith in 1865. They first lived in Cache County, Utah before moving to a ranch at…
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Edwin Buckwalter Rice
Edwin Buckwalter Rice was born on December 20, 1861. He married Sylvia Lovina Drake in Willard, Box Elder County, Utah. The couple first lived in Corrine, Utah, from which Ed freighted goods to Montana. The family moved to Conant and Parker, Idaho before moving east to the Teton Valley in 1889. Ed died in St.…
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Richard Drake & Phoebe Lovina Beecher
Richard Drake and Phoebe Lovina Beecher married in July 1864 and they settled in northern Utah and southern Idaho before pulling up stakes and moving to the wild Teton Valley to help settle Victor and Cedron, Idaho. Richard passed away in 1912 after suffering from a stroke eight years earlier. In 1915 Phoebe decided to…
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Sylvia Lovina Drake
Sylvia Lovina Drake was born in Willard, Utah on March 3, 1867. She married Edwin Rice on her 17th birthday and they made their home in Conant and Parker, Utah. Later they moved to the Teton Basin where she operated a hotel and a millinery shop. She passed away in St. Anthony, Idaho on November…
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Jane Clarissa Miller
Jane Clarissa Miller was born on August 1, 1841 or 1842 in Adams, Illinois. The Miller family first moved to Kanesville, Iowa, and then Farmington, Utah. Jane married Oscar North Rice on April 25, 1859, and they settled in what is now Providence, Utah. She died at the age of fifty-four on February 15, 1896.
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Elizabeth Almira Babbitt
Elizabeth Almira Babbitt was born in 1830 at Painesville, Ohio. Her family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and lived near both Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois. She married Leonard G. Rice in 1849 and crossed the plains with her new husband to settle in Farmington, Utah. Later she moved her family…
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Elizabeth Ann Morris
Elizabeth Ann Morris was born in Wales on June 13, 1817, She joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales and emigrated to America in 1855. She rode the train to Des Moines, Iowa and then traveled overland to Utah via handcart. She arrived in Salt Lake City in 1856 and married…
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Arvin Mitchell Stoddard & Caroline Sargent
Arvin Mitchell Stoddard was born at Bastard, Ludy County, Upper Canada in 1852. His wife, Caroline Sargent, was born in Jackson County, Missouri in 1834. They both joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and met in Provo, Utah after their families migrated west. They lived for a while in Farmington, Utah, and…
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