Market Street 1890, Logansport, Indiana

Market Street 1890, Logansport, Indiana
Logansport Indiana 1890s, West towards markets owned by our Great-great grandfather Gilbert Rice and his brothers Elihu and Benjamin

Why this blog?

Numerous hours each day are spent at my computer researching and writing about the Leslie F. Rice family, reaching back to 1630, through the years, and into this century. However, and unfortunately, I spend more time on the research side of things, and less on the writing. The result is the discovery of capsules of info which are informative, and often quite fascinating, but which remain with me and are not passed on to The Rice Kids. Some of whom might find these interesting, maybe even exciting.


The intention of this website is thus to release these bits of info as I discover them so as to allow others to participate in my encounters.


Another intention with this website is to allow for, and even create, a communicative process in which interested individuals can interact with me. Criticizing, idea thinking, questioning, and contributing in such a way that this website can be a source of information for enlightenment all of The Rice Kids….. whether they need it or not. :-)


Saturday, August 18, 2012

Photographs from Fernbrook Farm


The following photographs are scanned from an album owned by Leslie F. Rice:

Rose Rice and her sister Kate

Kate or Katherine Heiz was born in Glarus (or Ruti), Switzerland on April 28, 1850. She immigrated with her father Schneider Balthasar Heiz and her mother Anne Maria Vogeli Heiz to New Glarus, Wisconsin in May of 1852.

Other members of the family were:
Balthasar. Born in Ruti, Switzerland in 1847.
Maria. Born in New Glarus, Wisconsin in 1855. She died in 1929 at Monroe, Wisconsin.
And, of course, Rose, born in New Glarus in 1857.










Zelda Magdalina Rice.  Zelda was the second of three children born to Leslie and Grace [Rich] Rice. She was born in Augusta, Kansas on June 7, 1885.  

Zelda was in poor health most of her life, asthma, and thus lived in Phoenix, Arizona for many years. She never married, and her heart and soul were always a part of Fernbrook Farm.

Zelda died in Phoenix of pneumonia at the age of 60 on October 8, 1945. 











Rose [Heiz, Hefty] Rice

Zelda Rice

Katherine Heiz

















Francis J. Rice together with his son Leslie holding the first grandchild, Dorothy.  Picture probably taken in 1916.




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