Marshall-Sheridan County KS Archives Biographies.....Hamler, James Arthur 1882 - living in 1917
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GUY L. RICE.

    Guy L. Rice, well-known undertaker and furniture. dealer at Marysville and
long recognized as one of the most active and progressive of the younger
business men of that city, is a native son of Marshall county and has lived here
all his life. He was born on a farm in Center township on October 16, 1883, son
of Charles W. and Marguerite Inez (Crane) Rice, the former a native of England
and the latter of the state of Illinois, whose last days were spent in this county.

    Charles W. Rice was born in the city of Coventry, England, October 16, 1856,
and was about eight years of age when his parents, William and Ellen (Watson)
Rice, emigrated with their family from England to Canada in 1864. Three years
later, in 1867, they left Canada and moved to Indiana, settling on a farm near
Bluffton, that state, where William Rice died in 1869, leaving his widow and
four children, two sons and two daughters. In 1877 Charles W. Rice left his
mother and his brother and two sisters in Indiana and came to Kansas, riding
through on horseback to Marshall county. He began working as a farm hand in the
vicinity of Winifred and for two years "batched it" there in a little log cabin.
He then, in 1879, married and established a home on a rented farm in that
vicinity, on which he lived for three years, at the end of which time he bought
a farm two miles south and one mile east of the village of Home, where he lived
until 1889, in which year he engaged in the grocery business and was thus
engaged until 1891, when he engaged in general carpentering. In February, 1896,
Charles W. Rice moved to Marysville and was there engaged in the general store
of Frank G. Powell until in October, 1899, when he bought the furniture store
and undertaking establishment of H. B. Walker at that place and continued, to
operate the same the rest of his life, his death occurring on December 20, 1911.
His mother, who had joined him in this county many years before, had died in the
previous February.

    In 1879, in this county, Charles W. Rice was united in marriage to
Marguerite Inez Crane, who was born at Milford, Illinois, November 15, 1862,
daughter of Robert and Sarah Ann (Deeds) Crane, natives of Pennsylvania, the
former born in 1830 and the latter in 1834, who became pioneers and homesteaders
in Marshall county, where Robert Crane spent his last days, his widow now making
her home in Marysville. Mrs. Charles W. Rice died on August 6, 1890, leaving
three children, those besides the subject of this sketch, who was the-second
in-order of birth, being Prof. Clarence T. Rice, of the Argentine school of
Kansas City, Kansas, public schools, and Sarah Ellen, who married F. Hutton and
is now deceased.

    Guy L. Rice was reared on the home farm in Center township and in the
village of Home, receiving his elementary schooling in the district school in
that neighborhood, then went to Mary Forter and completed the same in the public
schools at Marysville, from which he and his brother and sister were graduated.
Until he was twenty-one years of age, Guy L. Rice worked on the farm during the
summer months and he then became engaged with his father in the furniture store
at Marysville. He had previously, under the direction of his father, learned the
details of the undertaking business and had become a skilled embalmer. In 1909,
at Topeka, he passed the examination of the Kansas state board of embalmers and
has ever since been engaged in the undertaking business at Marysville,
conducting the same in connection with his extensive furniture business, having
been proprietor of the store since his father's death in 1911. Mr. Rice is a
progressive and active business man and his business is conducted in strict
accordance with modern methods. He not only carries a full and complete line of
furniture, but has a well-equipped and up-to-date undertaking establishment and
was the first undertaker in northern Kansas to add to his equipment an auto
hearse. In addition to his extensive connections at Marysville, Mr. Rice is the
owner of a half section of land in Sheridan county, this state, and is regarded
as one of Marysville's substantial citizens.

    On February 6, 1907, Guy L. Rice was united in marriage to Myrtle Ford, who
was born at Axtell, this county, March 16, 1886, daughter of Joseph H. and Sarah
F. (Dean) Ford, natives of England and of the state of Kentucky, respectively,
who are now living at Abilene, this state. Joseph H. Ford was one of the early
settlers of Marshall county, a blacksmith at Marysville and a farmer in the
neighborhood of Axtell, and was for years one of the best-known residents of the
county. To Mr. and Mrs. Rice two children have been born, sons both, Merlin L.
and Dean W. Mr. Rice is "independent" in his political views. He is a member of
the local Masonic lodge and he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star and
of the Methodist church, in the various beneficences of which they take a warm
interest. They have a pleasant home at Marysville and take a proper interest in
the general social activities of their home town, helpful in. promoting all
proper causes designed to advance the common welfare.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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