Charles Leslie Rice

Charles Leslie Rice's American arc

Charles Leslie Rice was born 4 August 1879 in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Third of four children. By age 24 he was in Manhattan, marrying Adelaide Franklin Crist on 11 June 1903. Six children followed: Adelaide Franklin (1904), Carolyn (1906), Robert Alfred (1910 to 1914, died age 4), Barbara F (1912 London), Winifred (1913), and Charles Leslie Jr. (1919, Princeton Class of 1941, Army Captain with a Bronze Star and Cluster). The London 1912 birth of Barbara is one of the open puzzles in the line; the working theory is that Charles Leslie was on an engineering assignment in England that year. By 1940 the family was in Ware District, Gloucester County, Virginia. By 1950 Charles Leslie was in Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, where he died 15 May 1950 at age 70. He was sent home to Pittsfield Cemetery for burial. His daughter Barbara F Rice married Boyden William Hindman in Chicago 11 April 1936; their son William John 'Bill' Hindman was born 12 December 1945 in Syracuse, NY. Bill was Brant's father.