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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 300.


                       CORNELIUS  L. RICE
                           Ramsey, LA
Cornelius L. Rice was born in what is, now Vermilion parish,
August 15, 1835. He is the son of Samuel Rice, of whom mention is
made in his sketch of Levi Rice.  Young Cornelius L. received his
education in his native parish, and through the whole of his life
has been a planter and stock raiser. In 1861 he joined the
Eighth Louisiana Infantry, C. S. A., in which he served for
two years, when he was transferred to the Second Louisiana
Cavalry, which was assigned to service in the Trans-Mississippi
department. While in the Eighth Louisiana, his field of operation
was principally in Virginia, and he participated in many engage-
ments of the Virginia campaign. After he was transferred to
the Trans-Mississippi  department, Mr. Rice was on duty
principally as  a scout and a guide.  The regiment disbanded on
Red River; Mr. Rice, at that time, being home on a furlough. He
married, in 1862, Miss Laura Perry, who lived three years after
her marriage.  Mr. Rice married again in 1867, Miss Nancy
O'Brien. To them thirteen children have been born, five sons and
eight daughters, all of  whom are living. Politically Mr. Rice is
a democrat. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, of which he
has been vice president He owns six hundred acres of very fertile
woodland, a small portion of which is under cultivation.