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Mable Burgess

Mable Burgess
birth: 18 Apr 1877, Chicago, Cook, IL to Joseph and Ann Burgess (parents by adoption)
death: 9 Feb 1943, Butler, Bates, MO
burial: Hebron Cemetery, Porter, IN

marriage: 30 Jun 1902 in Kankakee, Kankakee, IL
Clair Malcolm Rice
birth: 3 Jun 1879, Hebron Porter, IN to James V and Elizabeth (Malcolm) Rice
death: 15 Feb 1953, Chicago, Cook, IL
burial: Hebron Cemetery, Porter, IN

Children of Clair and Mable (Burgess) Rice:

  • Burgess J Rice, b. 1903, d. 1989
  • James Vinton Rice, b. 1905, d. 1967
  • Clair Malcolm Rice Jr, b. 1908, d. 2001
  • John H Rice, b. 1911, d. 2005
  • William K Rice, b. 1916, d. 1997, m. Ruth Esther Bartlett
  • Ruth E Rice, b. 1919, d. 1998, m. Murrell D Thomas

Mable Burgess Rice lived at:

  • 1877- 1880- Chicago, Cook, IL
  • 1880-1900- Hebron, Porter, IN
  • 1900- Pinal, Arizona Territory
  • 1903-1920- Lincoln, Newton, IN
  • 1930-1943- Butler, Bates, MO

Mable was born Ellen Dolan in Chicago and was admitted to the Chicago Orphan Asylum 14 Feb 1879. Placed with Joseph Burgess in 1880. (Information taken from Chicago Orphan Asylum record dated 14 Jan 1942.)

Mable Burgess Rice was a school teacher by vocation. She taught one year in the Arizona Territory around 1900.

Other family lineage is at Find A Grave Memorial #81434088

Submitted by:
Ruth Rice Patterson
Email: dgpatterson@earthlink.net

 

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