By the Name of Rice

their first and only child was born, on Nov. 27th. 1835.
Very properly he was named William Pettit Rice, for
on the Rice side of the house there was the long line of
Williams, and on the Pettit side it was the name of his
grand father and of his great-grand fathers for 4
generations batk.
There were many unheavals and removals from this
date onward. A number of years were spent in Minnesota,
Wm. Pettit Rice taking with him his young bride
Rachel (Hole) Rice, and in Minnesota their 2 oldest
children were born. Harrassed by the Indians and
driven from their homes the Parents, Children and
Grandparents returned to Ohio, where Chas. Hawley
and Charity Dean Rice spent a happy life and grew
gracefully older until she died, in Alliance, Ohio, Nov.
19, 1887, aged 73.
After 53 years of connubial bliss, Chas. H. Rice knew
to a certainty that it was a good thing and with the
courage of his convictions, at the age of 78, he married
Deborah Bentley Trescott, a Quaker lady of high culture
and genuine worth, who was to him a loving and
faithful wife for ten years.
She was held in high esteem and loved by every member
of the family and the marriage in old age was an unqualified
success. Chas. Hawley Rice died in Alliance,
Ohio, Oct. 8, 1898, at the age of 87 years and his
widow died May 9,
1905, aged 80 yrs.
Of the other 4 children of Wm. and Elizabeth Rice the
record will be brief, tho in some instances it covers a
remarkably long life. Elizabeth, the youngest child,
made her home with her oldest brother, Charles, and
died at the early age of 29 yrs. She was an invalid for
many years and was tenderly cared for by the brothers
and their wives. She died July 27, 1850, and was
65