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Welcome to Kansas Trails' Rice County. Our goal is helping you find your ancestors by placing data online for the Free use of all researchers.  If you wish to submit data of any type to this site, it will be graciously accepted and added to this site. Remember: Submitted data will always be YOURS. CONTROL of any submitted data is yours. At any time you can choose to remove it or keep it online - from any site - wherever on the web. your Temporary Rice County host, Peggy Thompson EMAIL ME

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TOWNSHIPS Atlanta Bell Center East Washington Eureka Farmer Galt Harrison Lincoln Mitchell Odessa Pioneer Raymond Rockville Sterling Union Valley Victoria West Washington Wilson   CITIES Lyons Sterling Little River Chase Bushton Geneseo Alden Raymond Frederick

Rice County was organized in 1871. It was named for Brigadier General Samuel A. Rice, who was killed in the Civil War. Lyons is the county seat; besides the cities listed at the left, the communities of Crawford, Galt, Mitchell, Pollard, Saxman and Silica lie within the boundaries of Rice County. Have an Obit you'd like to submit for this county or any other Kansas county? Submit here! Don't know where your ancestors were? Just click on the Search Engine link below and it'll take you to Genealogy Trails NEW SEARCH ENGINE This search engine will let you search all of Genealogy Trails or limit your search to a single state! Join Our Mailing Lists Genealogy Trails Mailing Lists This Month's Featured Data 1889 Business Directory, Little River

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