Rice Obelisk - Dyersburg, Tennessee
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N 36° 02.697 W 089° 22.419
16S E 286171 N 3991541
This twenty foot grey granite obelisk is located in the Fairview cemetery - 820 Shelby Drive in Dyersburg, Tennessee.
Waymark Code: WMY6PG
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 05/01/2018
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This twenty foot grey granite obelisk is located in the Fairview cemetery. The obelisk only has the family name - Rice - on it. It is unlighted. The website "Who's Who in Tennessee - (
visit link) - has the following on the eldest Ernest Rice buried in the family plot:
"RICE, Ernest, born Orysa, Lauderdale Co., Tenn., August 31, 1872; English descent; son of C.S.O. and Lucie Q. (Estes) RICE; father’s occupation, planter; paternal grandparents, S. and Louisa E. (Lineueux) RICE; maternal grandparents, Moreau and Mary (Noel) ESTES; graduated at Hatchie Academy 1889, and from Cumberland University L.L.B., 1892; married Kate KLYCE Dec. 30, 1902; Democrat; State Senator, 1903 to 1905; Speaker of senate, 1905; served in suppressing outbreak of Reelfoot night riders; president of Lake Co. Manufacturing Co. (Oil Mill); vice president C.M. & G.R.R.; member M. E. church, South."