Spottswood Rice, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Spottswood Rice

AME minister

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Madison County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 31-Oct-1907

Profession: minister, soldier

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Spottswood Rice (November 1819 – October 31, 1907) was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church and a private in the Union Army during the US Civil War.
Rice is most famous for a pair of forcefully written letters to the owner of his wife and children during the war while he was stationed in St.
Louis and they were enslaved in Howard County, Missouri.
The letters expressed his desire to be reunited with his family and his anger at his wife's owners.
Later, he was ordained a minister in the AME church and served congregations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Colorado.
In 1882, he founded the first AME church in New Mexico.