Margaret Buckwalter, the daughter of John and Sarah Shuler Buckwalter, was born November 12, 1828, in Westenantmeal Township, Pennsylvania. Margaret's family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo, Iliinois. Margaret's first husband, Lemon Wickel, died on June 4, 1850. She moved to Utah in 1852 with her baby, mother and siblings. Margaret married Leonard Gurley Rice on January 2, 1853. Later she settled in the Teton Valley and lived with her daughter, Martha (Rice) Drake and her son-in-law Richard Asa Drake. She passed away October 10, 1918 and was buried in Victor, Idaho.

Lucy Jane Stevens, daughter of Samuel Stevens and Rhoda Brixey, was born in Portsmouth, England, January 1, 1848. At the age of seventeen, in company with three other girls, Lucy ran away from home, joined a company of LDS converts, and traveled to Utah in America. She married Leonard Gurley Rice and settled in Farmington, Utah. She died March 20, 1923, after suffering four years with a broken leg.

Oscar North Rice was born on October 19, 1835 in a wild country called Washtenaw in Michigan Territory. In 1842, the family made the long trip from Ypsilanti, Michigan to Nauvoo, Illinois because they had joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some time after moving to Utah, Oscar married Jane Clarissa Miller in the spring of 1859. Oscar North Rice died on September 17, 1880 in his forty-fifth year.

Daniel A. Miller and Clarissa Pond, parents of Jane Clarissa Miller, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before Jane Clarissa was born in Adams, Illinois. Later, the family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley and helped settle Farmington, Utah. Jane married Oscar North Rice on April 25, 1859. Death called her home at the age of fifty-four on February 15, 1896.

Margaret Mathews was born in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales on June 11, 1849. Her parents had joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When Margaret was seven years old, her parents left Liverpool, England for America. They were part of the Edward Bunker Handcart Company and walked all the way to Utah. She married Oscar North Rice in 1869. Margaret passed away on February 18, 1926 in Providence, Utah.

On May 15, 1844, Hyrum Smith Rice, more often called William Hyrum, was born in Nauvoo, Illinois. His father was Ira Rice. He married Olive Emily Smith on December 25, 1865, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His death date and burial place are uncertain, but it is rumored he died in Malta at the home of his daughter, about 1906.

Olive Emily Smith was born in Lee County, Iowa on December 12, 1845. Her parents were Utah pioneers. She married Hyrum Rice on December 25, 1865 in Salt Lake City. She died of blood poisoning on May 22, 1886 resulting from a broken arm.