Gray County Texas - Court: Joel C. Rice
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Source: Application For Guardianship Over Estate Of Minors - Hays County Texas
Probate #136, Book D, Page 368
Written: August 30 1881

On folder/file cover front:

No. 136
Estate of Rice Minors
Application for guardianship over estate of Minors
Filed Aug. 30 1881
Ed J. L. Green, Clerk C. C. H. Co.
by Jas. G. Burleson, Deputy
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The State of Texas        In the County Ct.
County of Hays            of Hays County

To the Hon. Ed R. Kone Judge of said County -

Petitioner Joel Rice who resides in said county, respectfully represents that
he is the father of the minors Elizabeth Rice age nineteen years, William H.
Rice age 17, J. G. Rice age 14, Robert Emmett Rice age 12 and J. Virgil Rice
age 10 years old and which minors reside in said County, he further states
that said minors interested in a tract of land in the State of Kentucky
devised to them by their Grandfather, Henry F. James, now deceased - And that
said minors interest in said land is now wort about five thousand dollars -
And he further states that it will be in the interest of said children to have
their onterest on said land sold and the proceeds from said sale be invested
in lands in the State of Texas.He prays for process as the law discounts and
upon the final moving that he be appointed guardian over the Estate of those
under fourteen years old and over select in open Court a Guardian over their
Estates and he will ever pray to

W. O. Hutchinson
Atty for Petitioner

Additional Comments:
The above application was denied:

Hays County Texas Probate Records as follows:

NO. 136 , Order of the Court
May 15, 1882
Elizabeth Rice et al     Minors

The application for Joe Rice having failed and declined for Letters of
Guardianship of said Minors. It is ordered that the said application be
dismissed at the costs of the applicant and for which execution may issue.
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Note the name was entered as Joe rather than Joel.

Children of Joel C. Rice and Mary Elizabeth James as chronicled in a letter to
Fannie Howard Rice Heiskell in 1890 (on file):
Henry James Rice b. 1854 in KY.
Ida Annie Rice b. 1855 in KY.
Infant daughter Rice b. 1857 in KY.
Dienysius Rice b. 1858 in Ky.
Fannie Howard Rice b. 1860, Boone County KY.
Sarah Elizabeth Rice b. 1862, Boone County KY.
Infant son Rice b. 1863, Boone County KY.
William Herbert Rice b. 1864, Clay County MO.
John G. Rice b. 1887, Clay County MO.
Richard Emmett Rice b. Clay County MO.
Joel Virgil Rice b. Clay County MO.

Several family members listed moved from Hays County Texas to the Panhandle of
Texas in Armstrong County by the date of the letter in 1890. Decendants of
Fannie Howard Rice Heiskell can be found in neighboring Carson County in 1900
and later in Gray County Texas by 1910.