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Rice County embraces Ranges 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of Townships 18, 19, 20 and 21. Its northern boundary is 102 miles from Nebraska; its eastern, 179 miles from Missouri; its southern, 81 miles from Indian Territory; its western, 194 miles from Colorado. It is bounded north by Ellsworth, east by McPherson, south by Reno, west by Stafford and Barton counties.1

County seat Lyons. Named in memory of Samuel A. Rice, Brigadier-General, United States volunteers, killed April 30, 1864 at Jenkins Ferry, Ark.₂

1. William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

2. History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)

Biographies
File Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Jones, Oliver Winslow 1862 -	3K	Mar 2007	Joy Fisher
Ladd, Frederick Otis 1850 -	3K	Apr 2007	Joy Fisher
Perdue, J. E. October 20, 1835 - August 9, 1919	2K	Apr 2009	Janet King
Cemeteries
History - Directories
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Rice County Medical Directory 1920	4K	Feb 2009	Joy Fisher
Military Records
File Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll	18 kb	Oct 1997	Marge Gardner
Freeborn Garrison Civil War Pension	6 kb	Aug 1999	Jerry Garrison
Obituaries
File Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Stalker, Catherine Victoria Hickel March 17, 2005	1K	Aug 2007	Oz

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