Legends & Leads
The chest in the attic is full of secrets.   Let us see what is inside...

Legends & Leads is dedicated to Rice Ware, Kentucky merchant-farmer and my great-great grandfather, living among mortals from 1847 to 1927. His legacy of family is my genealogical inspiration.

Rice Ware was born on July 23, 1846 in Pulaski County, Kentucky.  He spent his childhood in Pulaski County near Fishing Creek and at Highland, in Lincoln County. He volunteered for military service at the age of seventeen, fighting  for the Union during the last year of the Civil War.  On March 3, 1868, Rice married Nancy M Gadberry. Tradition tells us they had four children, of which only two survived from infancy, Laura and John. John was only four years old and Laura, five, when Nancy died.  He then married Telitha Haggard on December 17, 1874 in the home of Jackson Haggard.  Rice and Telitha had six children. In 1880, Rice and his family left Fishing Creek and bought a farm at what was later to be known as Ware, Kentucky.  He worked as a farmer, a merchant, and had Ware Kentucky's first post office in his general store.  He lived there till about 1916 when he moved to Science Hill where he remained until his death. He was choir leader for a number of years at Bunkam Baptist Church, Pulaski County, Kentucky.  In his later years he spent his winters in Palm Beach, Florida with Lizzie Albertson, whom he married in 1914. He died January 4, 1927 in Science Hill and was buried in the Bunkam Cemetery in Somerset, Kentucky.  He left a loving family that continues to have reunions, annually, to this day.
 
Here, I have compiled all of the family leads and inquiries that I have been collecting in my to-do file.  I never seem to find enough time to be a proper sleuth.  Hopefully, by exposing the leads to the light of day, others in the same line can help put all the pieces of our family genealogy back together again. If you would like to rummage through my collection, I welcome you now.  Please, let me know if you have additional information that supplements or corrects our story of family and I am always interested in photographs!
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