{"id":3304,"date":"2022-01-10T17:19:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:19:18","slug":"rice-c-s-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/rice-c-s-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice, C. S. O."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. <strong>C. S. O. Rice<\/strong>, a farmer and resident of the First District of Lauderdale<br \/>\nCounty, is a son of Shadrach and Louise E. (Linerieux) Rice. The father was<br \/>\nborn in Marion District, S. C., in 1799, the mother in Georgetown District, S.<br \/>\nC., February 28, 1812. They were married December 20, 1827; seven sons and<br \/>\nfive daughters were the result of this union, four sons and one daughter still<br \/>\nliving. The parents came to West Tennessee, April 6, 1837, settling in<br \/>\nLauderdale County, near Durhamville, where the father engaged in farming; they<br \/>\nwere both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics the<br \/>\nfather was a Democrat, and died May 8, 1869. The mother is still living with<br \/>\nour subject. C. S. O. Rice is of English descent on the father&#8217;s side, and<br \/>\nFrench on the mother&#8217;s, she being a descendant of the French Huguenots, her<br \/>\ngrandparents leaving France to escape religious persecution, and settling in<br \/>\nSouth Carolina. Mr. Rice was born in Lauderdale County, Tenn., February 12,<br \/>\n1841, and was raised on a farm and received a good education, then attended<br \/>\nthe law school at Lebanon, Tenn., in 1859-60. When the war commenced, Mr.<br \/>\nRice volunteered in the Ninth Tennessee Infantry, (C.A.) serving a year, when<br \/>\nhe was honorably discharged on account of ill health, but afterward enlisted<br \/>\nin the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, holding the rank of second lieutenant, and<br \/>\nserved until the close of the war. September 7, 1865, he married Miss Lucy Q.<br \/>\nEstes, who was born in Haywood County, July 16, 1845. They have had ten<br \/>\nchildren, seven now living &#8212; four sons and three daughters. Mr. and Mrs.<br \/>\nRice and the oldest children belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church South.<br \/>\nIn politics he is a Democrat. In 1874 he was elected to represent Lauderdale<br \/>\nCounty in the Legislature, and was again nominated by his party to represent<br \/>\nthem September 4, 1886. Mr. Rice has been a resident of Lauderdale County all<br \/>\nhis life, and quite successful as a farmer, owning 1,000 acres of land. He is<br \/>\none of the influential citizens of the county.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. C. S. O. Rice, a farmer and resident of the First District of Lauderdale County, is a son of Shadrach and Louise E. (Linerieux) Rice. The father was born in Marion District, S. C., in 1799, the mother in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/rice-c-s-o\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-rice"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}