OBITUARY: Charles F. Rice, 1854-1888, Mitchell, Iowa


RICE - Death of Charles F. Rice, at the family residence, Park Rapids, 
Saturday, August 18, Charles F. Rice, aged 34 years. 
      
                             IN MEMORIAM

Charles F. Rice was born near Panama, Chatauqua County, New York, 
September 3rd, 1854.  His parents moved to Howard county, Iowa, in 
1856, remaining there a year or two and the returning to their former 
home.  In western New York and northern Pennsylvania, where his 
father's work in the Methodist ministry took him, he grew up to 
manhood.  Always thoughtful and serious, mindful of the claims of 
God, as well as man, upon him, at the age of fourteen, he first made 
profession of his faith in Christ as his savior.

When eighteen, he left his father's home and came west settling at Osage,
Iowa.  Here he attended the Cedar Valley Seminary for a while.

In July, 1873 he was married to Miss Mary L. Tuller, of Osage, Iowa,
who, with three  children mourns his loss.  Shortly after his marriage
he removed to Del Rapids, Dakota, where he took up land.  In 1881 he
came to the Shell Prairies.  He built the first frame house on the town
plat. He was the first postmaster at this place.

Death was due to typhoid.

Enterprise, August 24, 1888. (Hubbard County Minnesota)


  Submitted by Kathy Pike - JAN 2005