Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Isaac T. Rice

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Isaac T. Rice is a representative of one of the old and prominent 
families of Benton County, Ark., and was born in Hawkins County, 
Tenn., in 1803. His father. Isaac Rice, was born in Montgomery County, 
Va., in 1777, and after reaching manhood went to Tennessee, where he 
was married to Miss Susan Senter, also a native of Virginia, and by 
her became the father of six children. The father died in 1823. Isaac 
D. Rice is the fourth of their six children and was reared on a farm 
in Tennessee. While in that State he was married to Miss Susan K. 
Senter, and the following are their children: Louesa. Nancy, Mary 
Jane, John, Susan and Isaac T. Mr. Rice and family immigrated to 
Arkansas in 1842, and located on a farm in Benton County, where they 
continued to reside until after the battle of Elkhorn, when they went
to Texas and there made their home until peace was concluded. Since 
that time he has been a resident of Benton County, and is one of its 
oldest living residents. He makes his home with his son, Isaac T. 
Rice, near Rogers, and votes the Democratic ticket, although he was 
previously a Whig. He has long been a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. South, and during his long and active life his many 
good deeds have made him beloved and respected by all. His wife died 
in 1875, at the age of seventy-one years. The son with whom he lives, 
Rev. Isaac T. Rice. was born in Tennessee in 1836, and was reared and 
educated in Arkansas. He was married to Miss Mary C. Scruggs, who died 
in 1869, and by her became the [p.882] father of three children. He 
was afterward married to Miss Fannie Arthurs, who bore him two 
children. He owns a fertile and highly cultivated farm of 190 acres, 
and is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, being 
ordained in 1867. During the war he served in Company F. Arkansas 
Volunteers, and was chaplain of Col. King's regiment. He is a 
Democrat.