Welcome to the Frederick Rice Family Web site!

The Barnhart Rice home, painted by Brad Rice

Frederick Rice was a pioneer and Revolutionary War soldier of German heritage.  According to the Rice histories, he was born in Northampton County, PA in 1753.  His father was Barnhart Rice, often found in Lutheran Church records in Pennsylvania as Bernhardt Reiss or Bernt Reis. Around 1770, Barnhart Rice moved his family to near Harrold's Settlement in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  Read more about this Rice family under the Family History page.

2005 Frederick Rice Family Reunion

The 2005 Frederick Rice Family Reunion is fast approaching.  The reunion will be held on at the Barnhart Rice homestead on the campus of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) located just south of Wooster, Ohio on Hwy. 250.  The deadline for sending in your registration is Saturday, June 4, 2005.

Print a registration form for the 2005 Frederick Rice Family Reunion by clicking on the Registration Form for 2005 Rice Reunion link.

One objective of the 2005 Frederick Rice Family Reunion project is to update the genealogical record of the Frederick Rice family.  This will be the first family wide effort since 1926.  Here are links to a Family Group Worksheet and a Family Lineage Form.  You can fill in the fields on these pages and submit them by email, or print them, fill them in and mail it to Marjorie Rice Chance to include your lineage in the updated Frederick Rice Family book.  You may also go to one of the free genealogy forms sites listed on our links page and download and print a family group form and a pedigree form, complete them and send them to Marjorie.  Your cooperation in providing complete and accurate information is greatly appreciated.

Upcoming Reunions

July 2, 2005    Frederick Rice Family National Reunion is being planned for July 2, 2005.

Read more about the reunion, reunion letters, accommodations, area points of interest on the Reunion Page.

We have some photos of the Rice family homesteads, farmsteads, businesses, cemetery markers and documents on the Photo Album Page.

Find links to counties where many descendants of Frederick Rice lived and do now live on our Links page.   You will find links to other research sites for Rice family genealogy research at this page.

Some new photos slide show

The Arthur Wallace Rice Family, c1920 - See description below

Photo:  This is a  photo of the Arthur Wallace Rice family circa 1920.  Arthur and his wife, Mary Effie Stetzel, are sitting in the chairs.  Effie is holding Opal Agnes Rice in her lap.  Arthur is holding your Webmaster's father, Kenneth Stetzel Rice, in his lap.  The boys standing behind them are the oldest sons, Wilbur Rice and Wallace Eldon Rice.  Daughter Nelda Ruth Rice and son Marion Ned 'Bubby' Rice were not born at the time this photograph was taken.  The photograph was taken at the farm of James Jeremiah Rice, Arthur's father

I welcome suggestions for improvement of this web site, and we will also publish non-commercial Web links to family member web sites.  Please direct your questions and comments, musings,  cussings and criticisms to your Webmaster, Gary Rice, using the e-mail button below.

Your Webmaster,
Gary Rice
e-Mail: [email protected]

This page was last updated on 05/29/05.