History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 548.
[Bourbon County]  [North Middletown Precinct]

RICHARD M. RICE, farmer; P. O. North Middletown; son of James W. Rice, and
was born near North Middletown, Bourbon County, on the 28th of February,
1839.  (For further notice of his parents see sketch of C.H. Rice in this
work.)  He received a good English education at North Middletown, where
he could have graduated in another term.  He began life as a farmer, an
occupation he has never had cause to abandon.  On the 21st of October,
1858, he was married in Nicholas County, to Jennie E., daughter of Col.
I. H. Piper.  Jennie E. was born at Jackstown, Bourbon County, on the 29th
of March, 1838.  Her father, Colonel Piper, was a native of Nicholas,
born near Carlisle in 1810, and now lives in that beautiful little city,
where he has retired from business.  His wife, Parmelia J. Porter, was
born in Fleming County in 1812.  Our subject, Mr. Rice, made the race in
1880 for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff of Bourbon County, but
was defeated by a small majority.  Mr. and Mrs. Rice have four children,
two sons, Charlton E. and William P., and two daughters, Ida May and Kate
Pearl.  Charlton graduates this term at the K.C. & B. College.  Ida May
was also educated at this school.  Subject and wife, and their two
eldest children, are members of the Christian Church.  Mr. Rice has
always lived a quiet life.  He is a temperate man in all his habits, and
endeavors to live a consistent Christian.  He has the reputation of being
sober and industrious, scrupulously exact in all his dealings and
commands the respect and confidence of the community in which he resides.

Rice Piper Porter
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Nicholas-KY Fleming-KY

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