Person:Aaron Rice (4)

Watchers
m. 16 Nov 1719
  1. Samuel Rice1720 - 1793
  2. Abigail Rice1722/23 -
  3. Aaron Rice1724/25 - 1808
  4. Dinah Rice1726/27 - 1818
  5. Sylvanus Rice1728/29 -
  6. Tamar Rice1732 -
  7. Artemas Rice1734 - 1797
Facts and Events
Name[1] Aaron Rice
Gender Male
Birth[1] 31 Jan 1724/25 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1][2][4] 2 Dec 1808 Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[3] Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United StatesMoses Rice Cemetery
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Aaron Rice, in Crane, Ellery B. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity. (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907)
    4:308.

    Aaron Rice, son of Captain Moses Rice, was born January 31, 1724-25 [Worcester]. He merried, November 5, 1754, Freedom French, born April 22, 1730, died September 1809, daughter of Thomas and Joanna French... He died in 1808, aged eighty-four years. Following is the inscription on his grave: "Sacred to the memory of Deacon Aaron Rice and Freedom his wife; who, having sustained the hardships of an infant settlement in the time of war; having reared a family of eleven children, six of whom lie interred in this ground; and lived together in happy wedlock fifty-four years, departed this life, the first December 2, 1808, aged 84 years; the other September 15, 1809; aged 79 years."

  2. Aaron Rice, in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Charlemont, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1917)
    p 156.

    Rice, Aaron, Dea., h. Freedom French of Deerfield, s. Capt. Moses and Sarah King, Oct. 2, 1808, G.R.4

  3. Aaron Rice, in Find A Grave
    Mem# 55602716, 2011.
  4. The death of Dea. Aaron Rice is stated in the VR as occurring in Oct., citing the source as his grave. Crane citing the same source, even giving the inscription, states that it occurred in December, which is likely correct.