Married Martin L. Rice on April 4, 1858, in Winnebago County, IL
The Mountain Democrat – Page 8
September 19, 1908
Died at Reno.
Mrs. Dorcas Rice died in Reno Sunday last, following at attack of erysipelas. Mrs. D. T. Williams, her daughter, was summoned from this city and left Saturday for her bedside, but Mrs. Rice was unconscious when she reached there, and passed away as stated.
She was a native of Pennsylvania and was 76 years of age, a widow, her husband having died several years ago, and she had been a resident of this county sixteen years. Besides her daughter, she leaves two sons, Waite and Chas. Rice of Reno, with whom she was making her home. These with the following grandchildren, Mrs. Shelley Inch Jr., Mrs. Hugh Lewis, of Point Richmond, Misses Jessie and Ruby Tefft and Alice Williams, Fred Tefft and Bertie Rice, are mourning the loss of a devoted mother and grandmother and, with them, many friends will long cherish her memory.
She was a strict adherent to the Church of the Advent, and, in the absence of a minister of that denomination Rev. E.E. Clark, of this city, officiated at her funeral which took place from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Williams Wednesday afternoon. A quartette consisting of Miss Carpenter, Mrs. Rantz, Wm. Bland and W.C. Burgess sang several selections, and interment was made in Union cemetery, the following gentlemen serving as pallbearers: George Candlish, L.T. Botts, John Bailey, C.E. Peters, Steve Weymouth, Vincent Campini, Sr.
The Mountain Democrat – Page 8
September 19, 1908
Died at Reno.
Mrs. Dorcas Rice died in Reno Sunday last, following at attack of erysipelas. Mrs. D. T. Williams, her daughter, was summoned from this city and left Saturday for her bedside, but Mrs. Rice was unconscious when she reached there, and passed away as stated.
She was a native of Pennsylvania and was 76 years of age, a widow, her husband having died several years ago, and she had been a resident of this county sixteen years. Besides her daughter, she leaves two sons, Waite and Chas. Rice of Reno, with whom she was making her home. These with the following grandchildren, Mrs. Shelley Inch Jr., Mrs. Hugh Lewis, of Point Richmond, Misses Jessie and Ruby Tefft and Alice Williams, Fred Tefft and Bertie Rice, are mourning the loss of a devoted mother and grandmother and, with them, many friends will long cherish her memory.
She was a strict adherent to the Church of the Advent, and, in the absence of a minister of that denomination Rev. E.E. Clark, of this city, officiated at her funeral which took place from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Williams Wednesday afternoon. A quartette consisting of Miss Carpenter, Mrs. Rantz, Wm. Bland and W.C. Burgess sang several selections, and interment was made in Union cemetery, the following gentlemen serving as pallbearers: George Candlish, L.T. Botts, John Bailey, C.E. Peters, Steve Weymouth, Vincent Campini, Sr.
Married Martin L. Rice on April 4, 1858, in Winnebago County, IL
The Mountain Democrat – Page 8
September 19, 1908
Died at Reno.
Mrs. Dorcas Rice died in Reno Sunday last, following at attack of erysipelas. Mrs. D. T. Williams, her daughter, was summoned from this city and left Saturday for her bedside, but Mrs. Rice was unconscious when she reached there, and passed away as stated.
She was a native of Pennsylvania and was 76 years of age, a widow, her husband having died several years ago, and she had been a resident of this county sixteen years. Besides her daughter, she leaves two sons, Waite and Chas. Rice of Reno, with whom she was making her home. These with the following grandchildren, Mrs. Shelley Inch Jr., Mrs. Hugh Lewis, of Point Richmond, Misses Jessie and Ruby Tefft and Alice Williams, Fred Tefft and Bertie Rice, are mourning the loss of a devoted mother and grandmother and, with them, many friends will long cherish her memory.
She was a strict adherent to the Church of the Advent, and, in the absence of a minister of that denomination Rev. E.E. Clark, of this city, officiated at her funeral which took place from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Williams Wednesday afternoon. A quartette consisting of Miss Carpenter, Mrs. Rantz, Wm. Bland and W.C. Burgess sang several selections, and interment was made in Union cemetery, the following gentlemen serving as pallbearers: George Candlish, L.T. Botts, John Bailey, C.E. Peters, Steve Weymouth, Vincent Campini, Sr.
The Mountain Democrat – Page 8
September 19, 1908
Died at Reno.
Mrs. Dorcas Rice died in Reno Sunday last, following at attack of erysipelas. Mrs. D. T. Williams, her daughter, was summoned from this city and left Saturday for her bedside, but Mrs. Rice was unconscious when she reached there, and passed away as stated.
She was a native of Pennsylvania and was 76 years of age, a widow, her husband having died several years ago, and she had been a resident of this county sixteen years. Besides her daughter, she leaves two sons, Waite and Chas. Rice of Reno, with whom she was making her home. These with the following grandchildren, Mrs. Shelley Inch Jr., Mrs. Hugh Lewis, of Point Richmond, Misses Jessie and Ruby Tefft and Alice Williams, Fred Tefft and Bertie Rice, are mourning the loss of a devoted mother and grandmother and, with them, many friends will long cherish her memory.
She was a strict adherent to the Church of the Advent, and, in the absence of a minister of that denomination Rev. E.E. Clark, of this city, officiated at her funeral which took place from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Williams Wednesday afternoon. A quartette consisting of Miss Carpenter, Mrs. Rantz, Wm. Bland and W.C. Burgess sang several selections, and interment was made in Union cemetery, the following gentlemen serving as pallbearers: George Candlish, L.T. Botts, John Bailey, C.E. Peters, Steve Weymouth, Vincent Campini, Sr.
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