Emily Sophia Aldrich (maiden name: Rice) was born around 1822 in Stockholm, New York, to Cornelius and Emily Rice. Her father was a blacksmith who owned $1,600 of real estate by 1850. She married Noble Aldrich, and they had at least seven children: Emily, born around 1845; Calvin, born around 1847; Eunice, born around 1848; Isadore, born around 1851; Wesley, born around 1853; Ira, born around 1856; and William, born around 1858. They lived in Fairfield, Vermont, and her husband worked as a farmer. By 1850, they owned $1,000 of real estate. They moved to North Troy, Vermont, in the 1850s, and they eventually moved to Glover, Vermont. By 1860, they owned $3,000 of real estate and $1,000 of personal property. Her husband died on March 27, 1872, and by 1880, she was living in her son Wesley’s household in Glover. She died there from a “gastric fever” on December 12, 1890.

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