Welcome to Rice County Minnesota Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please SEND IT TO US and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information An original county, Founded March 5, 1853 Named for Henry Mower Rice, one of the first two U.S. senators from Minnesota. Seat: Faribault Largest city: Faribault Townships Cities Bridgewater Township Cannon City Township Erin Township Forest Township Morristown Township Northfield Township Richland Township Shieldsville Township Walcott Township Warsaw Township Webster Township Wells Township Wheatland Township Wheeling Township Dennison (part) Dundas Faribault Lonsdale Morristown Nerstrand Northfield (part) Unincorporated * Cannon City * Little Chicago * Millersburg * Moland (part) * Prarieville * Ruskin * Warsaw * Webster * Veseli Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: May 2013: Obits: Beach, Brooks, Freed, Hoyt, Klemer, Perkins, Rainey, Robinson, Wood Marriages: Chase - Gardner; Corniea - Reed; Ellis - Grant; Fradenburgh - Allen; Gimblett - Bailey; Hecht - Schlatter; Lockman - Fihn; Maryland - Sullivan; Plouf - St. Onge; Schmuck - Currie; Soyntjes - Ekers; Wright - Hays; Yeager - Evans Bios: Barkley, Louberjet, Lufkin, Urban, Weir Oct. 2012: Obits: Borchardt, Borchert, Brooks August 2012: Obits: Jewett, Luther, Murphy July 2012: Bios: Brubaker, Buckham, Carpenter, Cathcart, Chaffee; Obit: Fleckenstein June 2012: Obits: Babb, Hanlon: Bios: Cochrane, Wheeler May 2012: Almfeldt, Appleby, Aslakson, Atchison, Bahe, Baldwin, Barrows, Batchelder Apr. 2012: Bios: Batchelder, Buck, Carpenter, Dougherty, Ebel, Flannery, Fleckenstein, Foot, Foskett, Giere, Gill, Gipson, Glotzbach, Grant, Huntington, McMahon, Metcalf, Stockton, Strong Mar. 2012: Marriage License & Certificate: Comstock-Simmons; Obits: Filiatrault, Whipple; Bios: Chase, Cleveland, Cobb, Cory, Grant, Griggs, Hall, Harkins; Marriage: Berdahl-Nelson Feb. 2012: Civil War Regiments; WW2 Army Honor List; Obit for BARRETT; bios: Aldrich, Bennett, Benson, Blencoe, Burch, Dixon, Dobbin, Halein, Hershey, Hile, Hopkins, Jackson, Kenney, Ketchum, Kisor, Larson, Morris, Nelson, Northcott, Osterhout, Purinton, Schneider, Soule, Southwick, Swartwood; County History - transfer of land, newspapers, schools and old settlers' dates of arrival; churches & schools of Morristown Twp. (1882) Jan 2012: Early county organization and description; death notice for BLOOD; list of cemeteries Previous Updates: Dight Biography, 1870 Births, 1870 Marriages, Obit for WHIPPLE, News Article - LOCKWOODS Reunited After 48 Years SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota -- South Dakota -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Michigan Adjacent Counties Dakota County (northeast) Goodhue County (east) Dodge County (southeast) Steele County (south) Waseca County (southwest) Le Sueur County (west) Scott County (northwest) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.