Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Prudence Rice

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Ben Jealous — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 81 
  • Father:
  • Elijah Rice 
  • Mother:
  • Prudence Hardy   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Jan 1766 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 or 22 MAY 1838 
  • Death Location:
  • Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Bezaleel Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jun 1795 
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  • Child:

  Elijah R. Smith (Ahnentafel No:40 )

• Sources for Prudence Rice

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/22/2023).
  • ² New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949, Death record for son Elijah R Smith.
  • ³ New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949, Death record for Prudence R Smith.
  • ⁴ Ward, Andrew Henshaw, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England . . ., Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson (1858), 110, 189.

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