CLYDE E. RICE OBITUARY

Clyde E. Rice, 70, of Suffield, beloved husband of Barbara (Belliveau) Rice, peacefully passed away February 21, 2018. Born in Calais, Maine, son of the late Thurman Rice Jr. and Grace (Burke) Rice. Clyde served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He worked for many years as a cabinet maker for Ricketson Sash & Door Company of Avon, retiring with 38 years of service. He loved the outdoors; and enjoyed time on the Cape and in Maine with family. He enjoyed running, biking, road races and he was an avid reader of the Journal Inquirer and the Hartford Courant. He was also a UCONN men’s and woman’s basketball fan. However, Clyde’s greatest joy was spending time with his family and enjoying family activities. He is survived by his wife Barbara, his daughter; Jennifer Knapp (Steve) of Higganum, his step-daughters; Lynelle Kuzontkoski (Chad) of Suffield and Kristen Lefferts of Brooklyn, NY., his grandchildren; Emma Knapp and Calvin Kuzontkoski, his sisters; Jackie Dutko (Jake) of Westfield, MA, Patricia Roy of Theodore, AL and Brenda Colburn of Windham, many nieces, nephews, cousins and close friends. His family will receive friends Saturday February 24, 2018 from 11am-12pm at the Nicholson & Carmon Funeral Home, 443 East Street N, Suffield. A memorial service will begin at 12:00pm. Burial with military honors will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Clyde’s memory can be made to the Emergency Aid Association, 450 South St., Suffield, CT 06078. For directions or condolences please visit www.carmonfuneralhome.com

THURMAN CLEVELAND RICE

Thurman Cleveland . Rice -

born         7 MARCH 1889  -  Machiasport, Maine    

died         1 Jan 1957          Falmouth, Maine

Buried;     Blanchard Cemetery, Falmouth, Maine

married on         3 JULY 1913    

Listed as a farmer, logger

Father;                Judah Rice

Mother;               Susan E. Fosterhis wife;
Mabel  Alma "Mabelle"   Hatt       
born;                 18 NOV 1895 - Wesley, Maine
died;                  7 MAY 1922 - Northfield, Maine      

fatherl;        James     Hatt

mother;       Leona  E.   Heywood

marriage 2

Philena   Marie   "Huckins"  Lyons

born;          December 9,  1889  -  Pembroke, Washington County, Maine

died;           May 4,  1980    -  Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine

married;    12  Nov  1922        Olson Cemetery     Lubec, Maine      

father;       Ezra  W.   Lyons

mother;     Philena  M.   Brown
(her second marriage - James Walter Huckins)

marriage 3;

Mildred  E.  Huntley

born;              Feb.  15,  1899

died;               June   1972

married;         29  April  1939      
buried;       Blanchard Cemetery, Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine,

father;       Benjamin  C. E.  Huntley

mother;     Mary   A.   Libby

Thurman Cleveland Rice Jr

Born;              Oct. 29, 1918    Marshfield, Maine

Died;              Feb. 5,  2000      Fulton, New York

married               married  March 17, 1937
Garce  Tralton   Burke

Born;                  Oct. 23,  1920        Plantation 14, Maine

Died;                  June 17, 1900        Connecticut

(Thurman Jr and Grace had several children, including Clyde E. Rice born in Calais Maine, - died at  Feb. 21, 2018   Suffield, Connecticut.  )

THURMAN C. RICE MARRIAGE RECORD

THURMAN CLEVELAND RICE   BIRTH  RECORD

THURMAN CLEVELAND RICE DRAFT CARD

THURMAN CLEVELAND RICE JR BIRTH RECORD

THURMAN CLEVELAND RICE  JR  MARRIAGE RECORD

THURMAN CLEVELAND RICE JR  OBITUARY

RICE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK

EDWIN RICE AND AMY SLACK
RICE GENEALOGY

This is a wedding photo of Edwin "Ed" Rice and Amy Slack taken on their wedding day in NH.  Edwin sent the photo to his parents Clyde and Etta Rice back in Northfield, Maine.  This was a second marriage for both, Amy was first married to Elmer Glen Kidder and they had several children together.  As far as I know Amy and Edwin did not have any children together.  Edwin and Amy were married on 4 March 1911 in Grantham, , New Hampshire.  Edwin's first wifes name was Bertha, last name unknown.

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This is a photo of the back of the wedding photo, print is faded but can still be read.
Below is some tax information I found at the Maine state Archives in Augusta, Maine for Judah Rice.

JUDAH RICE - RICE GENEALOGY
RICE FARMSTEAD, NORTHFIELD, MAINE

Both the Rice brothers, Judah and Freeman Rice purchased the Rice farmstead and lived there together for several years, raising their families.  Both brothers married daughters of Horace Foster and Nancy Libby of Machiasport, Maine.  Another Foster sister, Annie Foster, married James Alvin Flynn of Machiasport, and Annie was the one who reported back to the town a number of births at the Rice farmstead.

FREEMAN RICE - RICE GENEALOGY
RICE FARMSTEAD, NORTHFIELD, MAINE

As you can see, Freeman Rice also paid taxes on the property he shared with his brother.  In time, Freeman and his family moved out of the farmstead, most likely to Centerville, Maine.  After Judah died his son Clyde Garvey Rice took over the farmstead along with his wife Etta May Burns.  They had two children, Grace Lois Rice and Bernard Francis Rice.  After Clyde died Bernard took over the Rice farmstead.

CLYDE GARVEY RICE DEATH  CERTIFICATE

VIRGIL WILDER RICE JR - MAINE GUIDE

THURMAN C. RICE JR OBITUARY
RICE GENEALOGY

RICE FARMSTEAD - NORTHFIELD, MAINE
RICE GENEALOGY

This is perhaps the best photo of the Rice farmstead that exists, I took this photo standing up on the hillside in the blueberry field.  The small shack was a smokehouse used by the Rices.  The large barn once held cows, pigs, chickens and horses.  One of the two sheds has a ladder up against it - Bernard always wanted to hire someone to go up on the roof and patch up the leaks, but never had the money to get it done. There was also a large patch of Rhubarb along the shed.
The farmhouse only had three bedrooms, so it must of been very crowded when both of the brothers lived there with their children.

RICE FARMSTEAD - ROUTE 192 - NORTHFIELD, MAINE
RICE GENEALOGY

This is a photo of the farmstead taken from about where several apple tree's were located, the two windows to the right were in the Parlor, the front door was directly across from the stairway leading to two bedrooms upstairs, the two windows left of the doorway were in the kitchen and dining room, the window to the far left was the third bedroom.

BERNARD FRANCIS RICE -
RICE GENEALOGY

The photo above is of Bernard Rice by his prized jeep.  Bernard was born legally blind but that did not stop him from taking to the main roads with his jeep every now and than to check on the Rice hunting camp on Eastern Ridge.  He feared getting caught on the roadway so he did not make many trips.  The jeep along with a trailer was mainly used to gather hay and firewood.  The Rice's owned about 100 acres on the land where the house stood, along with property by Bog Lake, Eastern Ridge, and a large section of property by the Northfield one room schoolhouse close to where Virgil Rice Sr. and his wife Vesta Beulah  Dill lived.  Town records show her listed as the Supt. of Schools in Northfield Maine.

CASSIE A. BAGLEY - RICE FARMSTEAD
RICE GENEALOGY

Cassis A. "Young" Bagley along side a cow behind the Rice Barn.  Cassie was married to Asa John Bagley and they had several children together.  Asa and Cassie parted ways and she went to work on the Rice farmstead in exchange for room and board.  She tended to Etta Rice as Etta battled cancer, and later tended to Clyde Rice as he lay in bed dying.  Somewhere along the way Cassie and Bernard Rice fell in love and she remained on the farmstead as his live in girlfriend.  Cassie was very thin and frail and had a very low voice, but always had a big smile.  She was buried in the Northfield Cemetery, as she had requested, not far from where Bernard Rice would be buried years later.  She passed away in the Calais hospital from cancer.
Cassie's parents were Amos Westbrook Young and Minnie Almira Dunbar.

NORMAN BAGLEY
RICE GENEALOGY

Norman Bagley, above, was one of Cassie's son's.  He played a key role in helping get Bernard and Cassie to Machias so they could shop for food and other items.  Cassie's children often came over to the Rice farmstead to visit with her.

VIRGIL WILDER RICE SR
RICE GENEALOGY

Gravestone of Virgil Rice Sr.  A number of Rices are buried in the northfield Cemetery along route 192.  If you stood in one corner of the cemetery you could look across the blueberry fields and see the Rice farmstead years ago.  Sadly the farm burned down shortly after Bernard Rice died, struck by lightning.  The property was sold after the fire and the new owner put up new buildings on the land.

RICE FARMSTEAD FLOOR PLAN
RICE GENEALOGY - NORTHFIELD, MAINE

This is the downstairs floor plan for the Rice farmstead.  The large unmarked room was the dining area.  The farm never had plumbing or running water.  An outhouse was on Rice property across the main road which was reached by walking down the long dirt driveway, crossing the road, walking past the Rice one room cabin, past a woodshed, past a family dump and finally you arrived at the outhouse.

In the drawing you can see the private road the Rices owned that ran across their land to the Northfield cemetery.  On our yearly one to two week visits we would all walk that private road and place flowers on the Rice graves.  Across the main road was the one room cabin Clyde Rice built for his daughter, Grace lois Rice.  It was one room with a bunk bed, a wood stove, a table and some chairs, no plumbing or electricity.  Grace raised her daughter in that one room cabin.  You can also see the path through the woods to the Rice well.  The well by the farmhouse was dry most of the time so you had to carry pails to the well, pull up the buckets of water by hand from a long rope, and carry the water back to the house.  The dirt road behind the farmhouse ran up through the blueberry fields, and once went through the woods all the way to property the Rice's owned on Bog Lake.

CLARA RICE AND SUSAN RICE
RICE GENEALOGY

This is a photo of Clara Rice, seated, and her mother - Susan Rice.  Not much is known about Clara Rice.

CASSIE BAGLEY AND SON LESLIE BAGLEY
BAGLEY GENEALOGY

A photo of Cassie Bagley and her son Leslie - not much is known about him other than he died in his  30's.  This photo was taken on one of his visits to the Rice farmstead.

RICE LOG CABIN - NORTHFIELD, MAINE
RICE GENEALOGY

The one room log cabin Clyde Rice built for his daughter Grace Lois Rice - she would later marry Raymond Lawrence Anthony, have a child, and leave him, returning back to the cabin in Northfield, Maine with her daughter.

NORTHFIELD, MAINE TOWN RECORDS
RICE GENEALOGY

WARREN RICE LETTER TO CASSIE BAGLEY
RICE FAMILY GENEALOGY

A letter Warren Rice wrote to Cassie Bagley inviting her to a school event.

A sketch of the log cabin Bernard planed to build on Eastern Ridge.  Bernard drew the picture, and later on build the cabin.

A second drawing of the cabin Bernard planned to build on Eastern Ridge.  On our visits to the Rice farmstead we visited this cabin a number of times with Bernard.

BERNARD FRANCIS RICE DRAWING
RICE GENEALOGY

A drawing of a fast car Bernard Rice drew.  He had an obsession with fast cars and many of his poems centered around them.  One of his poems on fast cars was printed in the Machias Newspaper.

CLYDE GARVEY RICE SHOPPING LIST
RICE GENEALOGY

This was perhaps one of the best finds in a box full of old papers found at the farmstead after Bernard Rice passed away.  It is an old shopping list Clyde took to town with him.  Notice how low things cost back than...

CLYDE GARVEY RICE DEATH CERT.
RICE GENEALOGY

A copy of Clyde Garvey Rice's death cert..  At least two genealogy sites have Clyde's middle name spelled wrong, listing it as Garvin, one site made a note of the correction, the second site refused to correct their mistake. That second site also has Clyde and Etta never having any children - it just goes to show that even Wikitree can't always get things right.

THE RICE FAMILY GENEALOGY EBOOK

This ebook covers the Rice Family's of Washington County, Maine who resided in the towns of Centerville, Marshfield, Northfield, Machias and Machiasport Maine.


THE RICE FAMILY GENEALOGY

Benjamin Rice

Benjamin Rice was married to Jane Larrabee.  they had two children;

Judah Rice who married Susan Foster.

Freeman Rice who married Sarah Foster.

Alice V.  shows up on only one official record, a census record of Benjamin and Susan Rice. 

BENJAMIN RICE

parents unknown
born[  some records state Canada, others state Maine
(family members believe the Rice's came to Maine from N.S. Canada and lived on or near Indian land there.)
died;  Centerville, Maine
Father;  unknown
Mother;  unknown
WIFE
Jane Larrabee
born;    1811 at Machiasport, Maine
married;    1840
died;    Feb. 26, 1882  at Centerville, Maine
(her death listed in old newspaper clipping)
father;    Joseph Larrabee - born Oct. 31 1756 at Machias, Maine
                                           died;    1850 at Machiasport, Maine
mother;   Rebecca (Libby) Larrabee
born;  1781 at Harrington, Maine
died;   1816 at Machiasport, Maine

Judah Rice

Judah Rice

born;  18 JAN 1843 - Machiasport, Maine
died;  30 March 1922 - Northfield Cemetery
married on 18  JAN 1868 - Machiasport, Maine
His Father;  Benjamin Rice
His Mother;  Jane Larrabee
His Wife;
Susan E. Foster
born;  30  NOV  1849 - Machiasport, Maine
died;  27  nov 1912  - Northfield Cem,  Northfield, Maine
Her Father;  Horace Foster
Her Mother;  Nancy Libby

Judah Rice

 

Susan E. Foster

THEIR CHILDREN;

Thurman C. Rice -
born  7  MARCH  1889 Machiasport, Maine
died  1    Jan    1957
married on     3     JULY     1913
his wife;
Mabel  H.  Hatt
born;  18    NOV    1895 - Wesley, Maine
died;  7     MAY   1922 - Northfield, Maine

(Their child - Thurman Cleveland Rice Jr, married Grace Lydia Burke.  Thurman Jr was born in Marshfield, Maine on 10/29/1918 and died on 2/5/2000 at Fulton, New York.  Grace was born on 10/23/1920 at Plantation 14, Maine and died on 1/27/2003 at Ct.
They had several children, including Clyde E. Rice, born Calais, Maine and died on 2/21/2018 at Suffield, Connecticut.

Thurman C. Rice

Virgil Wilder Rice
born;  10     SEPT     1886
died;  9     APRIL     1965
1st wife
Margaret  Belle  Ingersoil
2nd wife;
Vesta Beulah Dill
born;  19  Oct  1896 - Richmond, Maine
died;  5  Dec  1987 - Machias, Maine
(she later married Ralph Day)
her father;  Charles E. Dill
her mother;  Achsia B. Babcock (Peacock)
(NOTE:  Virgil Wilder Rice  was first married Margaret Ingersoil, who was still in school.  The marriage was annulled, she later gave birth to Oral Church Rice - Virgil is named as the father, at the time of the baby's birth - 10/19/1912, Margaret was dating Thomas Scott Bowden.  Her and Thomas had two children before they were married, on license their two kids are listed as is Oral C. Rice.  Virgil  went on to marry  Vesta Beulah Dill.)

Right - Virgil Wilder Rice, Maine Guide

Vesta Beulah Dill

Grover Cleveland Rice
born;  9    Feb    1892   centerville, Maine
died;  25   MAR   1893

Benjamin Harrison Rice
born;  9    Feb    1892   centerville, Maine
died;  18   AUG   1892

William  W. Rice
born;  11    OCT  1863
died;   21  MAR  1892
(never married)

Merton "mertie" Rice
born;  22     APRIL     1871
died; 

Clyde Garvey Rice
born;  21  NOV  1883
died;  30    MAY    1962 - Northfield, Maine
married on  30   SEPT   1906 - Machias, Maine
his wife;
Etta May Burns
born;  27   JULY   1885
died;  1958 - Northfield, Maine
her father;  Henry Burns
her mother;  Charlotte Amanda Welch

Clyde Garvey Rice & Etta May Burns

 

Charlotte Amanda Welch

Elmer Hilton Rice
born;  2   APRIL   1882 - Northfield, Maine
died;  1933 in a "Bug House" from mental illness (Susan Rice's notes)
married on  7  April  1904 - Wesley, Maine
his wife;
Fannie S. Archer
born; 
died;
her father;  Charles A. Archer
her mother;  Corilla  Leighton

ELMER HILTON RICE - RICE GENEALOGY

Edwin A. "Ed" Rice
born;  24  OCT  1868 - Machiasport, Maine
died;  1911
married Amy on 4 March 1911 at  Grantham, , New Hampshire
1st marriage;
Ada  Bertha   Wright
Ada'a marriages included;
berthas other marr
Frank W Savage
Lee Franklin Underhill
Henry Edward Pecoy
Alonzo Frank Thompson
Wiliam E Rich
Charles H. Sargent
4 of her husbands were from New Hampshire
her father;       Lorenzo D Wright
her mother;     Emma L Crocker
2nd Marriage
Amy Slack
born; 
died;  2  Feb  1946 NH
her father;  Henry F. Slack
her mother;  Laura White
Amy's 1st husband -
Elmer  Glenn Kidder
married Amy in 21  August  1892  at Enfield, , New Hampshire
Father;     Alfred  R.  Kidder
Mother;    Mary  E.  Foster               (daughter of Thomas Foster)

Edwin "Ed" Rice & Amy Slack

Edwin "Ed" Rice

Clara Rice
born;  20  JUNE  1870
died;

Clara Rice (seated) and mother Susan E. (Foster) Rice

Annie B. Rice
born;  10   JAN    1875
died;
Husband 1;
Wellington E. Caler
born;    20  April  1865    Centerville, Maine
died;    10  May  1905     Centerville, Maine
married;  28  Aug.  1892  Columbia Falls, Maine
his father;  Charles W. Caler
his mother;  Christina  Christie  C. Snow
Husband 2;
Maleolm W.  Clark
born;    2  Feb.  1880  Boston, Mass.
died;     7  Dec.  1960  Ellsworth, Maine
married;  31  Oct.  1904  Machias, Maine
his father;  Samuel Clark
his mother;  Almira    ?

NOTE;  Annie Rice died young and her  child, Hazel, was raised by Susan and Judah Rice after her death.  This information comes from notes in a book which belonged to Susan Rice, Bible Readings For The Home Circle.  Thurman Rice gave the book to his mother as a gift, mailed to her from Vermont.

Annie B. Rice

Annie's daughter - Mina Caler

(NOTE;  Sometimes while researching your family genealogy you run into surprising discoveries, such was the case in my research of Annie's daughter Mina, who married Darrell Clifton Roberts.  I just now learned that she died in Fairfield, Maine at the old Fairfield Sanatorium, where she had been a patient for 5 months and 10 days suffering from tuberculcsis, she she had been battling for 18 months.  Mina  daughter Violet Roberts passed away in 2004.  Years later, Clyde and Etta Rice's daughter, Grace Lois Rice Anthony, would apply for and get hired there, where she worked for many years.  Grace purchased land within view of the Sanatorium and lived there in a two room log cabin, but to my knowledge I do not believe she ever knew Mina Rice had ever been a patient there.  Violet Marie Roberts married Philip Ivan Chambers)


Ernest Owen Rice
born;  30     JAN     1880
died;  1    Jan    1900

Ernest Owen Rice

                                                    Fairfield  Maine Sanatorium



notes;
Judah Rice and his brother Freeman Rice each married daughters of Horace Foster and Nancy Libby of Machiasport, Maine.  They purchased the Rice Farmstead in Northfield, Maine and the two families lived there sharing the taxes.  At some point Judah came to own all of the Rice lands, including the 100 acres where the farmhouse stood, mainly blueberry fields, land across the roadway where a hunting cabin stood, land and another hunting cabin on Eastern Ridge, and a large section of land near where the one room schoolhouse once stood in Northfield, Maine.

photo I took of the Rice Farmstead as seen from upper blueberry fields, route 192, Northfield, Maine

Clyde Garvey Rice - Judah's son, ended up with all of the Rice property but years later when Etta May Burns came down sick from cancer and had to have operations, Clyde had to begin selling off sections of land, including all of the land by the one room schoolhouse.
Clyde's brother Virgil Wilder Rice also owned land and a farmhouse by the one room schoolhouse where Virgil lived with his wife Vesta Beulah Dill.  Vesta was listed in at least one town record as being the superintendent of Northfield schools.  Virgil liked to tip the bottle and was said to be extremely jealous of Vesta, which led to many fights.  Grace Lois Rice, who married Raymond L. Anthony of Canton, Ohio would walk the long distance from the rice farmstead to Vesta's nearly every day and considered her one of her closest friends.
Vesta would later marry Ralph Day.  On at least one document Virgil and Vesta are both listed as being registered Maine guides.
I recall my Uncle Bernard Rice as saying Benjamin Rice came down to Maine from NS, Canada and that he lived on Indian land there.  My grandmother, Grace Anthony also said Benjamin came down to Maine from Canada, but she thought he may of lived on land near or on Indian lands there.  We have never been able to find out who Benjamin rice's parents were and if anyone has such information, please consider contacting me and sharing it with me, I would be very thankful.

Rice Farmstead as seen from route 192

The farmhouse burned to the ground some time after the last Rice lived there during a lightning storm.  Only the barn remained and was later torn down by the new land owner.

Rice hunting cabin, route 192, Northfield, Maine

My grandmother, Grace Lois (Rice) Anthony lived in this for many years raising her daughter there.  The cabin was directly across the road from the Rice Farmstead.  The new land owner torn the cabin down.

VIRGIL WILDER RICE - MAINE GUIDE
RICE GENEALOGY

THURMAN C. RICE JR OBITUARY
RICE GENEALOGY

Clyde Garvey Rice dog license

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