Biographical Sketch of Meredeth Rice, Johnson County, Missouri
Jackson Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

MERIDETH RICE,

P.O. Pittsville.  Among the enterprising citizens of Jackson township,
may be mentioned Merideth Rice, who was born in Madison county, Ky.,
April 11, 1825.  His parents were both natives of Virginia.  His father
died in 1863.  His mother died in 1862.  Merideth, the subject of this
sketch, came from Kentucky to Missouri in 1869, and settled in Johnson
county, near where he lives at the present time.  He was married August
25, 1868, to Miss Catherine A. Nelson, daughter of Archibald Nelson, of
Green county, East Tennessee.  Mr. Rice has a family of six children,
viz: Minnie B., Charles L., Beauregard, Joseph, Laura S. and Merideth.
Mr. R. has 120 acres of good land.  He is a successful stock raiser and
dealer, and while in Kentucky he drove horses, cattle and mules from
Kentucky into Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Florida.  He was elected assessor of Jackson township, and served
one term, giving general satisfaction.  He was appointed constable for
the same township in the spring of 1877, and was elected to the same
office in 1878, and re-elected in 1880.  Mr. R. commenced his education
at the subscription schools, and finished with a two years' course at
the Richmond Seminary, Ky.  He commenced his career with small capital.
Mrs. R. is a member of the M.E, church, south.

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