Person talk:Esther Rice (5)

Death date [10 July 2013]

Considering there is a gravestone documenting Esther's death (e.g., see here, or here), there is a surprising number of sources giving the wrong date. Perhaps because her age at death is wrong, the age 67 in 1737 suggesting a birth in 1670, when her birth was recorded in 1665. This website apparently decided the death date should be reported as February 11, 1742/43. Since this is a sourceless website, we cannot tell what this is based on, but it probably indicates there is at least one other website that makes this same error that this was copied from. And one book chooses to report that Esther died 11 Feb 1744, aged 78, one day before her husband's death on 12 Feb 1744. How romantic! --Jrich 10:14, 10 July 2013 (EDT)