Biographical Sketch of B. C. Rice, Walnut Grove Township, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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B. C. Rice was born in Polk County, Missouri, December 15, 1844.  His
father, Jonathan Rice, was a native of Logan County, Kentucky, and came
to Polk County, this State, in about 1830.  The subject of this sketch
was educated in the common schools of his native county, and at an 
early age began farming.  In 1863, he enlisted in Company L, 15th Miss-
ouri Cavalry, of Confederates, under Col. John Allen, and was on Gen.
Price's last raid through Missouri and participated in the battle of
Big Blue, and other engagements.  After the war, he returned to Polk
County and went to farming on the old homestead, and also engaged in
buying mules for the Southern market.  Mr. Rice came to Walnut Grove in
1878, and clerked for B. Y. Acuff and J. Brown till August, 1880, when
he opened up a drug store for himself, the firm being Rice & King.  The
firm was dissolved by mutual consent in October, 1882, and Mr. Rice 
made a trip to Texas, returning in December following.  Mr. Rice was
married December 5, 1880, to Miss Barbara McMehen, daughter of James
McMehen, one of the most prominent citizens of the northwest part of 
Greene County.  Mr. and Mrs. Rice have one child, a boy named James B.,
born May 12, 1882.  Mr. Rice is a Freemason in good standing, and his
wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  They have many
warm friends, and are highly esteemed by all who know them.  Mr. Rice
has been quite successful in business, and retains the confidence of
the people among whom his business career has been known.

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