Name: eckford -- Ancestors of Beulah Broach Eckford

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Sanders RICE: Birth: 1870. Death: 1876

  2. Mary RICE: Birth: 17 MAR 1874 in Noxubee Co, Miss. Death: 31 JUL 1935 in Starkville, Oktibbeha Co, Miss

  3. Della W. RICE: Birth: 17 JUL 1875 in Mississippi.

  4. Jarnagin Chesley RICE: Birth: 22 SEP 1876 in Mississippi. Death: in Dallas, Texas

  5. Julie RICE: Birth: 1879 in Noxubee Co, Miss. Death: in infancy in Noxubee Co, Miss

  6. Augusta RICE: Birth: 5 NOV 1884 in Noxubee Co, Miss. Death: 1 JAN 1959 in Starkville, Oktibbeha Co, Miss

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Sources
1. Title:   The original records in the Noxubee County Courthouse.
Page:   Deed Book 24, p 58 (24 Dec 1883)Deed Book 28, p 556 (2 Dec 1890)Deed Book 43, p 269 (10 Mar 1892)
2. Title:   Cemetary Records of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi April 1968
3. Title:   NOXUBEE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI MARRIAGES 1834-1900 Noxubee County Historical Society, Macon, Ms

Notes
a. Note:   hel Church"
 "Mrs. Lucy Rice, wife of Captain H. A. Rice, had urged the building of a community church, and it was because of her efforts that a community meeting was called to plan a union church. Attending this meeting were: Captain H. A. Rice, ...
 "Before the building was completed the first service was conducted by REv. William H. Harrison (Mehtodist) in the afternoon on the second Sunday in April [1878] at 2:00 pm... This service was attended by Capt. and Mrs. H. A. Rice and family, ...
 "Capt. H. A. Rice was superintendant, Capt. J. H. Jamison teacher of senior (Bible) Class, Mrs. Lucy Rice primary teacher....
 "Three or four years after the church was built Capt. Rice moved to Columbus...
 "Captain and Mrs. H. A. Rice lived on their home place still known as the Rice place.
 "Mr. T. D. Franklin came from Tenessee with Capt. Rice and lived with Capt. Rice many years. He lived in the community until a few years before he died in Old Soldiers Home in Biloxi...." [Was daughter Teedie named after T. D. Franklin?]
  Grand-daughter Beulah recalls hearing that Lucy was a better plantation manager than Hampton. Apparently the Rices were living on the land of Hampton's uncle H. L. Jarnagin, lawyer and politician, under a private agreement to purchase the land. On 24 Dec 1883 (three months before her husband's death) Lucy bought in her own name 680 acres [S 1/2 of Sec 21, N 1/2 of Sec 28, NW 1/4 of SW 1/4 of Sec 27 all of Township 16, Range 19E] from her husband's uncle H. L. Jarnagin for $5200, which probably included a private loan. On 2 Dec 1890 (presumably to pay off a loan to the estate of H. L. Jarnagin who died in 1886) she took out a mortgage on the property with British American Mortgage Co. for $3200 with rather unfavorable terms of 10% interest and a repayment schedule of $320 + interest for each of 4 years and the balance in the 5th year. Apparently 1891 was a bad year and she couldn't pay the mortgage due on 1 Nov 1891 because she signed a deed of trust on 10 Mar 1892. This was better than foreclosure because the deed of trust put title of the land with a neutral third party (Winston Jones Co) so she could continue to work the farm and pay off the mortgage but could not sell the land. By 1900 she was living in Cliftonville with her half-brother Jule Greer and daughters Teedee and Augusta and listed herself as housekeeper. By 1910 she lived in the home of her daughter Mary Rice Eckford.
  But Lucy was able to send several of her daughters to Shuqualak Female Academy.
 
Note:   An extract from the Macon Beacon, 3 Sep 1942, "Early History of New Bet

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