Tandy Holman Trice was born in Canton, Kentucky, the son of Dr. John L.
     Trice, a Captain in the 4th Kentucky Regiment during the war between the
     States. His mother was Julia Billings Trice; whose family came from
     Tennessee. Tandy was named after his grandfather, Col. Tandy Trice, a 
     well-known educator of that day. His grandmother was Mary Jane Gaibraith,
     also from the South.
       While living in Canton, Tandy was married to Julia Fair, daughter of
     J.D. Fair of Tennessee. Early in their married life they moved to Illinois,
     and there in Raleigh, Illinois, their first child, Lora, was born in 1882.
     Two years later they had returned to Kenticky and James Holman "Jack"
     Trice was born in Cadiz in 1884. A second daughter, Edna, bornin Cadiz died
     in Denver, Colorado, in 1914, having moved there after her marriage. When
     the children were young, Tandy and Julia left Kentucky, taking their family
     to Sharon, Kansas where Juila's four brothers lived. They wre J.D., Hyter,
     Charlie and H.D. "Hal" Fair.
       By the time Jack was 18 in 1902, he had moved to Medicine Lodge to play
     first base for the local baseball team as well as other area teams, and
     to work for his uncle in the H.D. Fair Mercantile Company. This was later
     known as the Fair-Trice Mercantile Company, and eventually the Trice
     Mercantile Company. Jack sold the firm to his brother-in-law, Herbert
     Newsom, in 1937 and then established the Security Investment Company.
       Always interested in Civic affairs, Jack served as the first chairman
     on the Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital and was on the Board of the Barber
     County Savings and lOan until his death in 1970. He was a 33rd degree Mason,
     a trustee of Wichita Consistory and a member of Midian Shrine Temple and
     Grand Master of Kansas Masons in 1944 and 1945.
       In 1915 Jack Trice married Edna Stinson of Winfield, Kansas, a teacher
     in the Medicine Lodge High School and a graduate of Ohio Weslyan University.
     They had three children, Virginia, Jack Jr. and Julia Jane.
       Virginia, a graduate of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, was
     with the Red Cross during World War II and served in India and Germany. She
     and her husband Colonel (Ret.) John K. Brier live in Tampa, Florida. They
     have four children, James Trice, Julia Ann Marr, Steven Edward, Tandy Lewis
     and one granddaughter Robyn Brier.
       Julia graduated from Emporia State University and was a teacher of commercial
     subjects. She married William E. Varnell of Tennessee. They have two children,
     Tandy William and Amy Christine. They live in Dade City, Florida.
       Jack Trice, Jr. married Imogene Irons from Medicine Lodge, Kansas. They
     have three children, Jill Ann and Jana Marie of Wichita, and James Holman
     Trice, III (Jackson) who, with his wife Kathleen, lives in Salina, Kansas.
     Jack Jr. graduated from Oklahoma University and during World War II served
     as a navy pilot aboard the aircraft carrier Boxer. Jack is in the insurance
     business in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. He is a 33rd degree Mason, a member of
     Wichita Consistory and Midian Shrine Temple. Jack is a Board member for the
     Medicine Lodge Memorial HOspital and the Barber County Savings & Loan.
       The Trice family has long been active in the Christian Church and all civic
     affairs in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 460