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Bard of Lone Jack Martin Rice Dies at 89 in Missouri
Martin Rice known as the bard of Lone Jack and a noted mathematician died at his Lone Jack home in Van Buren township Missouri. He was born in 1814 in Tennessee and moved to Missouri at 18. He voted for Abraham Lincoln in Cass county and served as a clerk or judge at fifteen elections. Funeral at his home with Elder Noah Hunt officiating. Burial at Pleasant Garden. He wrote Rural Rhymes and Talks and Tales of Olden Times and praised for his poems about local affairs. He celebrated his 89th birthday in November and had lived in the state 71 years.
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