 1744 - 1838 (93 years)
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| Name |
RICE William B. |
| Birth |
24 Apr 1744 |
Hanover County, VA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1 Mar 1838 |
Upper Loutre, Montgomery County, MO |
- Nathaniel Dryden built a horse mill near Danville soon after his arrival in Montgomery County, which, being something unusual for those times, attracted a great deal of attention. It was situated on a high point of ground, where the wind had a fair sweep against it, and several persons came near to freezing to death while grinding grain during cold weather; its capacity for grinding was from three to five bushels per day ... (--Ibid: 763, 764, 765.)
Montgomery Township is the last formed municipal township of Montgomery County, up to 1872. After the formation of those townships, its territory was embraced in that of Upper Loutre, Danvillen and Prairie.
The western portion of this township, along Loutre, was the first settled. In the southern part of the western portion of the township there was a settlement called "Cobbtown," as early as 1823, in which year came Samuel Cobb, Sr., and his sons, Samuel, Jr., Adam and Philip, and located here in the border of the prairie ... Samuel Cobb, Jr., lived to be nearly 90. He was the father of Alvin Cobb, the noted guerilla.
To the vicinity of "Cobbtown" came the Peverlys (or the Pevelays as they are called) in 1824 ... They were related to the Cobbs. Another settler in early days was Wm. Brown, a son-in-law of Daniel Cobb. Isaac and James Olfey came into the settlement in about 1825; all of these were Kentuckians ... (--Ibid: 814.)
Upper Loutre Township comprises the northwestern portion of the county, and is the smallest municipal township in area ...
Upper Loutre formerly comprised a considerable extent of territory. Montgomery City was in this township until in January, 1872, when Montgomery was formed. The township now (1885) comprises 62 sections.
Perhaps James and Isaac Olfrey, who came in 1825 to the southern portion of this township or the northern portion of what is now Montgomery, and settled on Little Loutre, were the first settlers in this township. The Olfreys lived near the Cobb Settlement -- or "Cobbtown." ...
The first settlers here bought their first goods at the store at Loutre Lick or at St. Charles. When Dan Robinson opened his store at Loutre Lick, it was considered that they had a store right at their doors.
Rev. Jabez Ham was the first preacher listened to, and New Porvidence, down the Loutre seven or eight miles, was the first church to which the people resorted. The first school an informant could remember was taught in 1830, by a teacher named Hayden, in a house three miles south of Wellsville, near where two families named Petty and Mahoney lived. Dr. Newland was the first physician in the settlement ... (--Ibid: 906, 907.)
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| Person ID |
I10197 |
Booth Family |
| Last Modified |
22 Aug 2013 |
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| Sources |
- [S1120] joann rice, joann rice, (Bishop-Ellis families) (Reliability: 2).
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