US Slocum, Caroline A. Rice

Caroline A. “Clara” Rice Slocum

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Born: February 9, 1830

Birthplace: Woodstock, New York

Father: Israel Rice 1801 – 1886
(Buried: Spring Lake Cemetery, Aurora, Illinois)​

Mother: Dorcas Jenkins 1808 – 1851
(Buried: New Woodstock Cemetery, New Woodstock, New York)​

Wife: Major General Henry Warner Slocum Sr. 1827 – 1894
(Buried: Green–Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York)​

Married: February 9, 1854 in Woodstock, New York

Children:

Caroline A. Slocum 1855 – 1856​
Florence Elizabeth Slocum Kingsbury 1859 – 1939​
(Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia)​
Henry Warner Slocum Jr. 1862 – 1949​
(Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York)​
Clarence Rice Slocum 1871 – 1912​
(Buried: Green – Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York)​

Life Events before War:

1832: Birth of her brother Leonard W. Rice​
1833: Birth of her brother Fordyce Bernard Rice Sr.​
1836: Birth of her sister Caroline Elizabeth “Carrie” Rice Deming​
1851: Death of her mother Dorcas Jenkins Rice​
1854: Married her husband Henry Warner Slocum Sr.​
1855: Her Daughter Caroline A. Slocum was born.​
1855: Became Sick in the summer in Charleston South Carolina​
1856: Death of her daughter Caroline Slocum from same sickness.​
1859: Birth of her daughter Florence Elizabeth Slocum​

Civil War Career:

1861: Her husband is wounded at First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia​
1861: Her husband was on sick leave from Army in Syracuse, New York​
1862: Birth of her son Henry Warner Slocum Jr.​
1862 – 1865: Her Husband served as Major General in Union Army​

Life Events after War:

1869 – 1873: Her husband Served as United States Congressman in Washington, D.C.​
1871: Birth of her son Clarence Rice Slocum​
1876 – 1886: Her husband was Commissioner of Brooklyn City Works.​
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1880 – 1887: Her husband was President of New York Soldiers Home.​
1886: Death of her father Israel Rice in Aurora, Illinois​
1894: her husband Major General Henry Warner Slocum died.​
1894 – 1899: Widow of Major General Henry Warner Slocum​

Died:
March 27, 1899

Place of Death: In her Home, Brooklyn, New York

Cause of Death: Pneumonia

Age at time of Death: 69 years old

Burial Place: Green–Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
 
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