Henry S. RICE

RICE, ROWLAND, OLDEN, CARTER, WALLACE, NICHOLSON, OVERBAUGH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/9/2012 at 13:37:12

July 15, 1842 - January 15, 1933

Henry S. Rice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rice, was born in Bavaria, Germany, July 15, 1842. At the age of five years he came to America with his parents who made their home in Rochester, N.Y. where Comrade Rice grew to manhood. The destinies of his adopted country were his, for when the call came to help save his country he responded July 15, 1862, (his twentieth birthday) and became a member of Company G—100th New York Volunteers under Capt. Thomas B. Yale and served with distinction to the end of the Civil War.

The following is his war record: Antietam, Md., Fredericksburg, Va., Chancellorsvllle, Va., and Gettysburg, Penn., where he was wounded in the head which kept him out of service for one day, Briscoe Station, Va., wounded in hip by "Minnie Hall" and taken to Grace church hospital at Alexandria, Va., and Davids Island, N. Y., for three months, returned to the regiment for active service in January 1864 near Culpepper, Va., where he was hit in the chin by "Minnie Ball" in the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6th, and was sent to Patterson hospital at Baltimore, Md., for one month. He again returned to the regiment for active service in the Battle of Cold Harbor, Va June 2 to 15th, 1864, was in operations against Richmond June 15 to 30th Deep Bottom, Va., August 13th to 20th, 1864; Beams Station August 25; Boydton Plank Road, to Hatcher's Run, Va.. Oct. 27 to 28, 1864; and the final Appomattox Campaign March 26th to April 9th, 1865. He was discharged out the service of the United State Army at Ballies Gress Roads, Va., on the 28th day of May, 1865, at "First Sergeant" of his company for distinguished service.

He was mustered out of time into eternity to be with the Army of the Immortals Sunday evening, January 15, 1933 aged ninety-one years, and six months.

After his discharge at Bailies crossroads, he went through the "Grand Parade" at Washington and came home with the regiment and mustered out In June 1865. Shortly after this he engaged in the nursery business at Rochester, New York. In the spring of 1867, hearing the call of "Westward Ho" he removed to Illinois and catching the vision of the "beyond" he pushed on into Iowa the same fall, 1867, to Clinton, Iowa, and settled in Grundy County in 1870. He and his family removed to Humboldt county in 1884, settling in Renwick in 1887, where he became an integral part of the community life as a business man and citizen. He engaged first in buying and shipping grain and live stock and then in the lumber business. He served as the Postmaster for 18 years. During this time he filled very acceptably various offices in the town council, among which were the office of mayor and on the school board. He has lived retired at his late home in Renwick for the past eighteen years. On June 1, 1870, he was united in marriage to Miss Cecelia Rowland at Sterling, Ill. This union was blessed with nine children: Lillian, who died at the age of ten years; Mrs. J. E. Olden and Frank R. Rice of Toppenish, Washington; W. H. Rice, Cheyenne, Wyoming, this son was home for a visit at Christmas time; Mrs. Emily Carter, Ames, Iowa; Mrs. Nell Wallace, and G. S. Rice of Renwick; Mrs. L. L. Nicholson of Gilmore City; and Mrs. A. N. Overbaugh of Hull, Ia. He leaves to mourn besides the above, his grief stricken and devoted wife, nineteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Fraternally he was a member of the C. H. Packard Post G.A.R. and the I.O.O.F. of Renwick.

Humboldt Independent - Iowa
January 24, 1933