Our Rice Family home page is dedicated to the memory of our grandmother, Willie Marie Strange Rice, who gave generously to each of us her faith and unconditional love and taught us that the greatest wealth we could ever possess was the love and respect of each other.
Among the ancestors of James Earl Rice, Jr. and Willie Marie Strange Rice, the following family names are found (to mention only a few):RICE, GRAGG, STRANGE, SENTER, EISENSTINE (EISENSTEIN), DRURY, DODSON.According to family lore, bible records, diaries and photographs, our RICE family came from Riceville and McMinnville, TN.From my research these past two years, I believe we are descendants of Isaac Rice who married Susan Senter (Center), whose son John married Tabitha Dodson.The Senter name was passed down into our family with no one knowing "from whence it came".Our GRAGG line is said to come from North Carolina and I believe descends from William "Revolutionary Bill" Gragg who rests in the Montezuma, NC, cemetery.
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