Sketch of John Tice, Warren County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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John Tice, a German, and an uncle of the celebrated Prof. Tice, of St.
Louis, settled in Warren County about 1809, and was the first settler 
on Pinckney Bottom.  When the overflow of 1824 came he refused to leave
his house, but moved his family upstairs and waited patiently for the 
water to subside.  But in order to be prepared for escape in case of an
emergency, he tied two meat troughs together to be used as a canoe. 
Some of his neighbors who had fled to the hills, became alarmed at the
absence of Tice and his family, and went to their house on a raft, to
see what had become of them.  They found them safe, but unwilling to
abandon their home; so they left them.  Fortunately the water did not
sweep the house away or reach the second story, and they remained in
safety until the river receded into its banks.  When Mr. Tice first
settled on Pinckney Bottom, the country was infested by hostile Indians,
and they had to be always on the lookout for them.  One day Tice went
into the woods near the river, for some purpose, and came close upon a
white man who was making an ax helve, without perceiving him.  The man,
thinking he would have a little fun, rapped upon the ax helve with the
blade on his knife, making it sound like the snapping of a gun, which
frightened Tice so badly that he sprang into the river and swam to the
other side.  The names of Mr. Tice's children were: John, Joseph, Mary
and Sally.  The latter was a splended ball player, and played with the
boys at school, who always chose her first, because she could beat any
of them.

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