Elmer Clyde Rice

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name: Elmer Clyde Rice
death date: 25 Jan 1974
death place: Jasper, Jasper, Texas
gender: Male
race:
death age: 70 years
estimated birth date: 1904
birth date:
birthplace:
marital status: Married
spouse's name: Pearl Rice
father's name: Melvin Rice
father's birthplace:
mother's name: Berintha Cooper
mother's birthplace:
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additional relatives:
film number: 2243038
digital film number: 4169946
image number: 2189
reference number:
Collection: "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," Elmer Clyde Rice, 1974

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Census Listings:

1910 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1
Enumerated 30 Apr 1910
SD 2 ED 131 Sheet 11A
173-175
Rice, Melvin Head M W 37 m1` 7 Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Rice, Bee Wf F W 35 m1 7 3/3 Tx Miss Miss
Rice, Claude F Son M W 6 S Tx Tx Tx
Rice, Elmer C Son M W 6 S Tx Tx
Rice, Katie B Dtr F W 4 S Tx Tx Tx
Rice, Elizabeth Mother F W 61 1/1 Tx Miss Miss

1920 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1
Enumerated 11 and 12 Feb 1920
SD 326 ED 168 Sheets 33B and 34A
665-688
Rice, Melvin Head M W 46 M Tx Miss Miss Farmer
Rice, Burintna Wf F W 45 M Tx Mis Miss
Rice, Claud Son M W 16 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Rice, Elijah Son M W 16 S Tx Tx STx Farm Laborer
Rice, Katie B Dtr F W 14 S Tx Tx Tx
Elizabeth, Mother, F W 65 Wd Miss Tn Tn

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 1
ED 202-3 SD 19 Sheets 17A and 17B Stamped 39
79-79
Rice, Melvin Head m W 57 M 29 Tx La La Farmer
Rice, Burintha Wf F W55 M 27 Tx Miss Miss
Rice, Clyde Son M W 27 M 18 Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Rice, Valeta rdtr F W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Rice, Hulan Grdson M W 4 9/12 S Tx Tx Tx

Melvin married Berintha "Bee" Cooper about 1903. Berintha (daughter of Daniel Matthew Cooper, M. D. and Gracie Berintha Harper) was born on 19 Mar 1875 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 14 Mar 1959 in Sabinetown, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Harpers Chapel Cemetery, Sabinetown, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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name: Berintha Rice
event: Death
event date: 16 Mar 1959
event place: Sabinetown, Sabine, Texas, United States
gender: Female
marital status: Widowed
birth date: 19 Mar 1875
birthplace: , Texas
father's name: Dannie Cooper
mother's name: Gracie Harper
burial Harper Chapel Cemetery
Informant Mrs. Katie Bell Maund
certificate number: 17008
film number: 2115909
digital folder number: 005145462
image number: 00240
Collection: "Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976," Berintha Rice, 1959

Notes:

Barbara Yancey Dore shows him as a son of William Gill Cooper and Dempsey Donaho of South Carolina and Hinds County, Mississippi, and a brother to Jonathan Henry Cooper.

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Census Listings:

1880 Census
Texas, Sabine County, SubDiv 84
Enumerated 12 July 1880
Page 30 B SD 1 ED 84
268-279
Cooper, D M W M 54 Physician Miss Miss Miss
Cooper, Gracey W F 40 Wf Miss Miss Miss
Cooper, George W W M 15 Farmer Tx Miss Miss
Cooper, Octovine W F 14 Dtr Farming Tx Miss Miss
Cooper, Wesley W M 9 Son Tx Miss Miss
Cooper, William W M 6 Son Tx Miss Miss
Cooper, Berinda W F 5 Dtr Tx Miss Miss
Cooper, Henderson W M 2 Don Tx Miss Miss

Daniel married Gracie Berintha Harper about 1863. Gracie (daughter of Elmore Harper and Julia Ann Lane) was born about 1838 in Mississippi; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From FindAGrave:

Shown as a son of Capt. Robert Cooper and Jane Hamilton. His place of birth is also listed as Rankin County, Mississippi versus South Carolina.

WAR RECORD: WAR OF 1812 - PRIVATE IN CAPT. WM. SPENCER'S CO., NIXON'S REGIMENT, MISS. MILTIA, MAY 16 - OCT. 7, 1814 AND IN CAPT HARMON M. RUNNEL'S CO., NIXON'S 13TH REGIMENT, JAN. 8 - FEB. 7, 1815.

About 1843 he moved to the Spring Ridge Community southeast of Raymond in Hinds County. He bought a tract of some 240 acres and lived there until he died. His wife died shortly after he had bought the plantation; but he lived for another six years, dying the latter part of January of 1849. He and his wife are buried together in the garden near their home.

Today their graves are unmarked for later owners felt the little family plot was morbid. They tore down the iron fence; plowed over the graves and took the headstone into a field and threw it in a gully. Earl B. Cooper found the stone and removed it to his lot in the Smith-Cooper cemetery in the Monterey Community of Rankin County, Miss. Now in graves unmarked and unknown, with their son, John Oliver Cooper, they rest in everlasting peace in the soil they loved and had chosen for a home.

A copy of his estate papers were said to have been filed in Hinds County, Mississippi on 10 Sept 1859.

William married Dempsey Donaho about 1808. Dempsey was born on 5 Aug 1788 in South Carolina; died on 1 Oct 1843 in Rankin County, Mississippi; was buried in Cooper-Smith Cemetery, Florence, Rankin County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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FindAGrave shows her as a daughter of William Donaho and Esther Daniel.

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Married:
Source Citation: Source number: 1232.162; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; .
Source Information:
Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.

FindAGrave shows them as the parents of 15 children in total. Only the two sons that migrated to Sabine County, Texas are included in this database.

1. LEWIS A. COOPER b: 29 MAR 1809 in NATCHEZ, ADAMS CO, MS

2. JOHN OLIVER COOPER b: 11 DEC 1810 in NATCHEZ, ADAMS CO, MS d: 28 JUN 1850 in RANKIN CO, MS

3. GEORGE WASHINGTON COOPER b: 30 JUN 1812 in NATCHEZ, ADAMS CO, MS

4. POLLY ANN COOPER b: 6 JAN 1814 in HINDS CO, MS

5. Judge HAMILTON COOPER b: 15 FEB 1815 in HINDS CO, MS d: 1 JUL 1894 in NEWTON CO, MS

6. JANE MELVILLE COOPER b: 1 JAN 1817 in HINDS CO, MS

7. JONATHAN HENRY COOPER b: 22 AUG 1818 in HINDS CO, MS

8. SARAH COOPER b: 19 JAN 1820 in HINDS CO, MS

9. ROBERT ANSEL COOPER b: 15 AUG 1821 in HINDS CO, MS

10. LUCINDA COOPER b: 1 AUG 1824 in HINDS CO, MS

11. ELIZABETH "ELIZA" COOPER b: 10 OCT 1825 in HINDS CO, MS

12. WILLIAM GILL COOPER, JR. b: 14 SEP 1827 in HINDS CO, MS d: 29 FEB, 1912 in TEXAS, buried COTTONWOOD CEMETERY, DALLAS, DALLAS CO, TX.

His tombstone is inscribed:
"A Soldier of the
Mexican War 1846
A Hero of Buena Vista
under Colonel Jefferson Davis
In Co. G, First Miss. Volunteers"

"A Soldier of the Confederate States
of America 1861 in Co., G, Thirty-
nineth Miss. Volunteers
Take thy sleep, thy warfare's o'er!"

13. NANCY COOPER b: 30 APR 1829 in HINDS CO, MS

14. DANIEL MATTHEW COOPER b: 30 OCT 1830 in HINDS CO, MS

15. JAMES SIMPSON COOPER b: 26 NOV 1832 in HINDS CO, MS

Notes:

The son of James Harper. He enlisted in the 11th Texas Inf. at Camp Clough. By October 31, 1862, he was stationed at Camp Nelson, Arkansas. After the war, he returned to Sabine County and married the widow of his former friend and neighbor, Isaac Hickman Low. Elmore was a member of the Littleton Fowler Masonic Lodge in Hemphill and worked as a farmer. (White and Toole, p 40).

Kay Parker McCary shows that a military marker only is in the Spring Hill Cemtery of Sabine County, showing Co. F 11th Reg Texas Inf, CSA. His wife was shown as Julia Ann Lane.

Elmore married Julia Ann Lane before 1836. Julia was born about 1817 in Georgia; died about 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]