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



                        LORENZO C. RICE
                           Ramsey, LA

Lorenzo C. Rice, a prosperous farmer and stock raiser of the
seventh ward, was born in Vermilion parish, June 9, 1828.  He is
the son of Samuel R. Rice, mentioned elsewhere.  Our subject
spent his school days in this parish, receiving a fair education.
At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Rice began farming and
stock raising, in which he has been constantly engaged since that
time. He was a soldier in the Confederate States service during
the late Civil War, enlisting, in 1861, in Fournet's Battalion.
He was afterward transferred to the Eighth Louisiana Cavalry, in
which he served the remainder of the war. He was in the battles
at Camp Bisland and Donaldsonville. At the former place he only
escaped being captured by accepting the prerogative of untold
hardships, having gone for eight days without food and with
little water. At the close of the war Mr. Rice  returned home and
resumed planting. He owns three hundred and ninety acres 
of land of the greatest fertility, a  portion of which is under
cultivation.