Rice, Ephraim J.

Born: 1817-XX-XX Connecticut

Died: 1875-02-20 Moweaqua, Illinois

Flourished: Moweaqua, Illinois

Ephraim J. Rice was a physician. In June 1838, he married Mary J. Gorin in Fayette County, Illinois. In 1850, he was living in Macon County with his wife and children and owned real property valued at $300. By 1860, he had moved his family to Moweaqua, Illinois, where he was practicing medicine and owned real property valued at $1,200 and a personal estate of $1,500.

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Fayette County, 28 June 1838, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Macon County, IL, 172; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Moweaqua, Shelby County, IL, 90; Illinois, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999, 2 March 1875, Shelby County (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2015); Gravestone, Masonic Cemetery, Moweaqua, IL.