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Dice, Elzy C.
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| LAST NAME: Dice
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FIRST NAME: Elzy
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MIDDLE NAME: C.
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| GENDER: M
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| BORN: 4 Jan 1816
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DIED: 6 Feb 1888
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BURIED: ~ Burch Family Cemetery
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| OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Kentucky
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| DEATH PLACE: Oregon
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MARRIAGE - Minerva A. Stewart, 1848
1860 OR CENSUS - Eli Dice, age 44, occupation farmer, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with M. A., age 39, b. Ohio, along with F. M., male, age 10, b. Indiana, M. E., female, age 9, b. Indiana, J. R., male, age 7, b. Iowa, and A. C., female, age 1, b. Oregon.
1870 OR CENSUS - Elzie Dice, age 53, occupation farmer, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with Minerva A., age 41, b. Indiana, along with Francis, age 21, b. Oregon, Mary E., age 19, b. Oregon, Orlina, age 11, b. Oregon, and Benjamin, age 1, b. Oregon.
1880 OR CENSUS - Elcy C. Dice, age 62, occupation farmer, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with wife Minerva A., age 50, b. Indiana, along with Orlena E., age 21, b. Oregon, and Benjamin H., age 11, b. Oregon.
[divorce - Minerva A. vs E. C. - 1881 in Polk Co.; Minerva died 14 Oct 1911 in Salem and is buried in City View cemetery]
DISCREPANCY - Name usually shown as E. C., but also as Eli, Elzy, Elzie, and Elcy.
BIGRAPHICAL (Source, Lang, Herbert O., History of Willamette Valley, Lang and Himes, 1885, pg 656):
Elzy C. Dice resided in Adair Co., Ky. until 1841. He then went to Illinois and the same year to Missouri. In 1846 he came across the plains to Oregon, and was met at Fort Hall by Jesse Applegate, and came with him across the mountains by the Applegate route. During the Cayuse war he was one of a company of sixteen to take dispatches to California, but the deep snow in the Siskiyous prevented them from crossing, and they were obliged to return to the valley. They then enlisted in a voluteer company, and after considerable hard traveling in pursuit of the Whitman murderers returned to Oregon City, and were discharged in June, 1848. Mr. Dice then returned to his claim in Polk County. Since then he has resided at various times in California and Walla Walla. He now owns a farm of two hundred acres near Independence and also city property. Was married to Miss Minerva A. Stewart September 27, 1848, and to them the following named children have been born--Frances M, Mary E, Orlena E, and Benjamin C.
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INSCRIPTION:
E. C. Dice
Died
Feb. 6, 1888
Aged
72 Y's 1 M 2 D's
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SOURCES:
Branigar Survey
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1860 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Independence, FA #602)
1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Independence, FA #108)
1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Independence, ED 106, pg 484A)
Oregon Historical Records Index (Oregon State Archives)
Lang, pg 656
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