Charles
Yancy Trice was born on 17 May 1821 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. His parents were Dabney Nelson Trice and
Unity Smith Thomasson. In 1841 Charles
married Mary Ann Winstead in Kentucky, and they resided there at the time of
the 1850 census. In 1860 Charles, Mary
and eleven children were enumerated in Grand River, DeKalb County,
Missouri. Charles was a farmer with a
listed value of real estate at $1800.
This amount seemed to be a little above average for the area.
Charles and
Mary had the following children:
Sarah Jane Trice
(1841-1841) married William Sanford Townsend in 1868
Unity Smith
Trice (1842-1929) married Nathan Coleman Newby abut 1865
Julia Ann
Trice (1844-1922) married Johnson M. Joiner in 1865
John Louis
Trice (1846-1936) married Margaret Priscilla “Maggie” Smith
James Nelson
Trice (1847-1892) married Amanda Lee Thurston in 1882
George
Washington Trice (1849-1924) and spouse is unknown
Joel
Alexander Trice (1851-1923) married Lucy Honora Smith in 1877
Charles
Yancy Trice, Jr (1853-1915) married Paralee Steen or Steele and then Luna
Estelle Drake
William
Monroe Trice (1855-1940) married three times, I believe: Mary Herron, Lizzle
McIlvane
and Geraldine Lewis
Henry Thomas
Trice (1856-1940) married Clara Morgan in 1887
Mary
Elizabeth Trice (1858-1944) married George Arthur Butterfield about 1880
Oliver
Cutler Trice (1860-1901) married Mary Alice Ferril in 1886
Marona Amner
Trice (1863-1949) married John F. Short about 1882
Hattie
Morrow Trice (1866-1945) – I don’t believe she ever married
Mary died in
1889 and Charles lived the rest of his life in Grand River, Missouri. He died while visiting his son Charles Yancy
Trice Jr in 1908 in Kansas City, Kansas.
From his
obituary in the Kansas City Star on August 23, 1908, “When a man has reared a
family of fourteen children on a farm of forty-acres—giving each and every
youngster a good education, comfortable home until manhood or womanhood is
reached, and finally a substantial start in life—it’s a big boost for acre
farming.”
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interested in any of these people and would like to collaborate, please contact
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