Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Gravestone of the Day

Joseph Rice, 1711, Stowe, MA
HERE LYES ye
BODY OF JOSEPH
RICE AGED About
76 YEARS DECD.
DECR. ye 23D 1711

2 comments:

Robert J. said...

This appears to be Joseph the son of Edmund Rice, the Sudbury immigrant of that name and a very well studied fellow:

http://www.edmund-rice.org:

http://www.edmund-rice.org/era5gens/p2.htm#i159

He looks to be my 9th great uncle by marriage, and the smallness of this original population once again amazes me.

—RJO

Robert J. said...

As a followup, Edmund Rice has a substantial Wikipedia page, giving a good illustration of what 13 generations and a little modern genealogy can yield:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Rice_(1638)