Rice Cemetery/Daniel McFall

In 1833 Caleb Rice came to Milan from Orleans, New York, and purchased 240 acres at the intersection of Dennison and Hickory Roads for his son, Josephus. At "Rice's Comers," Josephus raised a family with his wife, Mary Goss Rice, farmed, and established a one-acre cemetery, the "Rice Burial Ground." Milan Township acquired the cemetery on October 20, 1888. In 1892, Florence Rice Miller and the township expanded the grounds, renaming it "Rice Cemetery." The Sweet family, descendants of the Rice family, expanded it again in 2017. Daniel McFall Rice Cemetery is the final resting place for several veterans of the War of 1812 and more than thirty veterans of the American Civil War. Serg􀀉ant Daniel McFall, one of the veterans, received the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1896 for his actions during the 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. While serving in Company E of the 17th Michigan Infantry, he captured Colonel Barker, the commanding officer of a Confederate brigade, and rescued Lieutenant George W. Harmon. McFall returned to Milan after the war and operated a farm until his death in 1919.