- ROSWELL RICE, farmer, Secs. 1, and 12; P.O. Johnstown; born
in Erie Co., N.Y., in 1815;
- came to Wisconsin in 1840, locating at Johnstown, where he
purchased forty acres in Sec. 2; afterward sold and purchased
120 acres on Sec. 15, which he again sold and moved to Sec. 12,
where he purchased 280 acres - his present homestead. Married,
in 1850, Miss Emeline SAXE, a native of Greene Co., N.Y.; had
six children - Elmira, Charles, Ellsworth, Francis and two that
died at an early age; member of School Board for a number of
years; Republican.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 812.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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