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Martha Jane Stoddard
Janie Stoddard was born April 29, 1852 in Provo Utah to Arvin and Caroline Stoddard. She met Leonard Babbitt Rice at a dance in Farmington and they were married in December 1871. After several years in Utah, the couple moved to southeastern Idaho. Then they moved to southern Alberta, Canada to farm, though they eventually…
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Lucy Jane Stevens
Lucy Jane Stevens was born in Portsmouth, England, on January 1, 1848. Her father and brothers were shipwrights in England. At the age of seventeen, she ran away from home and traveled to Utah by handcart. A year later Lucy married Leonard Rice. She raised a family of seven children, and died in 1923.
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Margaret Mathews
Margaret Mathews was born in Swansea, Wales on June 11, 1849. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Utah via the Edward Bunker Handcart Company. They settled in Providence, Utah. She married Oscar Rice in 1869 and passed away in 1926.
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Olive Emily Smith
Olive Emily Smith was born in Lee County, Iowa on December 12, 1845. Her parents were Utah pioneers who settled in Farmington, Utah. She married Hyrum Rice in December 1865, and they lived in Cache County, Utah before homesteading near Round Mountain in Cassia County, Idaho. In 1886 she fell from a wagon and broke…
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Oscar North Rice
Oscar North Rice was born on October 19, 1835, in Washtenaw County, Michigan. In 1842 his family his family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. Later in Utah, Oscar served as a scout in the Lemhi Valley Indian troubles. He married Jane Miller and Margaret Matthews and they lived in Providence, Utah. He died in 1880 at…
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Leonard Gurley Rice
Leonard’s family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan. Shortly thereafter the Rice family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. After being driven from Nauvoo by mobs, the Rice family trekked west to Utah. Leonard helped lead other pioneer companies across the plains. Later he was involved in multiple rescue missions and a…
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Ann Victoria Rose
Ann was born in Steuban County, New York to Abraham and Catherine Nicholson Rose. Her family had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and west to Ohio and Illinois to be closer to the main body of the Church. Her family crossed the plains with other pioneers and settled in Farmington, Utah.…
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Margaret Buckwalter
Margaret Buckwalter was born in 1828 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She and her family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and they moved to Illinois to be with the main body of the Church. There she married Lemon Wickel, who died three years later in 1850. After crossing the plains and settling…
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