Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-04-20

few lines more about his antecedents
may be permissible. Deacon Edmund
Rice, the first American ancestor, who
came in 1886 and settled at Sudbury
near Concord, Mass, giving it the
name of his English home near Lon
don, came of long line of English
and Welsh ancestry whose records, I'M
der the Welsh name of Rhys, are to
be found in the ancient CHRONICLES of
Princes" and all modern Welsh his
tories. A well-known genealogist
names these among his descendants:
Abigail Adams, wife of second
president
John Quincy Adams, sixth presi-
dent.
Gideon Welles, Secretary of Navy
in Lincoln's Cabinet.
Timothy o. Howe, Postmaster Gen
eral. =
Alexander H. Rice, Governor of
Minnesota.
Othniel LOCKER, fifth Governor of
Ohio. {.
Governor John Davis.
Edmund Rice, General in United
States Army.
General A. v. Rice.
Persis Rice, wife of Gen. Rufus
Putnam.
Manasseh Cutler, Originator of
Ohio Company that settled Ohio.
stitutional Convention of Chic in 1902.
Harvey Rice, "Father of School
System of Ohio"
Jonas Rice, "Father of Worcester,
Mass"
J. C. Abbot, Historian.
Colburn, Mathematician.
Jedediah Morse, Geographer.
Samuel F. B. Morse, Inventor Of
Electric Telegraph.
Elias Howes Inventor of Sewing
Machine.
Samuel Gridley Howe, Humanitar-
ian.
Julia Ward Howe, Author Of Bat
tie Hymn of Republic.
Francis Marion Crawford, novelist
]. Q. A. Ward, Sculptor.
Harriet Hosmer, Sculptor.
Joseph Willard, President of Har-
ward College.
Frances E. Willard, Temperance Re
former.
Bishop Erastus O. Haven, President
Ann Arbor University.
Gilbert Haven, Methodist Bishop.
Mary A. Livermore, Humanitarian
Clara E. Barton, President Rec
Cross Society.
Prof. George Barton, President His
torical Association, Boston.
Spencer Trask, Financier.
| Mary Baker Glover Eddy, Founder
of Christian Science, of whom the gen
ealogist facetionsly remarks: "Sh,
is the first and only woman who eve,
made four million dollars after sh'
was eighty years old. She would b,
an ornament in the family of any olC
Puritan Deacon"
Twenty-four of his descendants ar
mentioned as serving in the Colonia
wars, and forty-four were in the Wa
of the Revolution.
Employed by the government, mucl
of the land then recently acquires
from the Indians in northwestern
Ohio was surveyed by Ambrose Rice
His old surveyors chain and compass
the latter minus the needle, are nov
in possession of his great gram
nephew, James Rice Hibbard of Dover
Thinking he had never seen a fine
location than the oak openings, Judg
Rice induced his niece, Mary Rice, an
her husband, Mortimer D. Hubbard
to remove here from Athens County
in 1888. With good team of horse
| and a covered wagon they seem t
have suffered no great discomfort o
the way, although the trip was mad
, in winter. They reached the little two
; roomed log cabin, their future hom
! for four years, on the fourth day c
t February. Their farm, selected fo
/ them by Ambrose Rice, consisted of
{ large tract of land lying half a mil
J north of the Maumee Road.
' Judge Rice, who had made his heaC
quarters, previous to their coming, g
Perrysburg and Maumee, thereafte
made his home with his niece, neve
Z having married.
/ Although the Indians are said
Y have given possession of their lano
: in 1920, they did not vacate them III
2 til several years later, when they wei
t removed to the far west. Nor eve
r then were all taken. Mrs. Hibba1
e speaks frequently of them in ht
: journal.
0 Soon after their coming into tt
8 new country she was necessarily le
f alone one day with her four lit
t children. There were no near nelgl
o. bors and she had seen no Indians.
f shadow fell across the floor, and lool
D ing up from her work she saw par1
; of them, each with gun in hand, filir
n through the door into the little cabi
q AS they came between her and her b
4 by, sleeping in its cradle, her hea
+ stood still for a moment. Seeing n
+ alarm the foremost one turned al
stood his gun behind the door, motto
ing the others to do the same. Tht
- they made her understand that th'
= were hungry and wanted somethl1
= to eat. She gave them as good a di
! ner as she could, and after eating
they went quietly away, much to h
relief, and she saw them no more.
One morning, not long after, an
dian appeared carrying a deer ov
o his shoulder which he laid across t
h doorstep, probably in return for VIII
d she had done for the hunting party
k For a year or two after this the
/ were frequent visits from squaws a
n papooses. They brought gifts
III beads and a kind of gourd which
IS children liked to play with. Or
they brought rude wooden doll viii
IN had been whitfield out for the lit
n girl.
IN Some of the settlers who came abe
to that time and built cabins within
few miles of them, were Peter Lie
B. Alonzo Butler, the Fergusons
II Goulds.
ag{ In June, 1889, a year and a h
d' after their coming, Mrs. H1bbs
II writes of the two older children
ei ing to school for the first time. /
We cousin, Caroline seamans, was -
vi teacher. This school was held in
III room of the Ferguson house j
north of the site of the present