1882 History of Linn
County, Missouri
BIOGRAPHY
MICHAEL RICE, Brookfield City et Township: 559
farmer, of Brookfield township, Linn county, Missouri,
was born in Marion county, Ohio, February 4, 1839. His parents removed to Cumberland
county, Illinois,
when he was an infant, and settled on a farm, where he lived until he was
fourteen years old. They next removed to
Christian county, Illinois,
where his parents died, on in 1858 and the other in 1859, the care of the
younger portion of the family devolving on him.
He remained on the homestead and married in 1860. In 1866 he sold his interest in the homestead
and removed to Fayette county, Illinois, purchasing a farm in the vicinity
of Vandalia. He resided there two years,
then selling out, came to Linn county, Missouri. He was employed at farm work until 1877, when
he bought his present fine farm near Brookfield.
December 2, 1860, he
married Miss Almira Scrivner
of Taylorville, Illinois.
They have eight children, John Wesley, Mildred Caroline, George W. K.,
Olive Belle, Mary Agatha, Nettie Viola, Francis Alvian,
and Louisa Gertrude, all living at home
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