In my RICE line is a FRANCIS THOMAS RICE, bn 8-15-1819/22. Court house records say 1822. He died 1895 at age 73. If interested can email you a copy of a reprinted book the page about this Francis Thomas Rice. All it said was his father was Henry Rice a native of Va. Then gave a minut detail of "EARLY FIRST FAMILYS OF RIPPEY,IOWA"