Person talk:Timothy Rice (1)

Death Date

I removed the death date of 1860, citing source of Ancestry One World Tree. Besides being an uncredible source, it tends to be used by people who can't be relied on to transmit its information correctly, and it is suspected that the original source of this date said something like before 1860, being a nearly useless estimate often seen, based on extreme age. For example, Timothy's sister Lucy original said d. 1865, which happened to 100 years after her birth, but her actual death was in 1832. Needless to say, no such death record for Timothy has been found in obvious places, nor has he been found in the 1850 or 1860 census, as one would expect if he lived this long. Ward has no information, and websites seem to say died young, though the basis for that has not been found either. All-in-all, there seems little reason to think 1860 has any value, even as a research hint. --Jrich 19:47, 11 March 2015 (UTC)