Daughter of Nathan Kidder (1756-1788) & Dorcas Eldridge (1760-aft.1850) per births in Mansfield CT Vital Statistics, vol. 1, pg 50. She was first married in 1803 to Amariah’s cousin - Daniel RICE d. 13 Oct 1838 Salem NY, with whom she had 12 children and was widowed. Only 8 of the children survived her. She was later married to Amariah Fenton in 1848, with whom she had no children.
Buried with her first husband.
[Obituary] Washington County Post - Clipping pasted in 1846 family Bible in poss of Donna Hawks.
“DIED
On this 12th ult., Mrs. ZINA RICE FENTON, wife of Amariah Fenton, of Jackson, in the 78th, year of her age. Mrs. Fenton was born in Willington, Ct., Dec. 24th, 1787, and moved into the old town of Cambridge when a little girl. She made the journey on horseback, the quietude of our valley not having been broken by the whistle of the locomotive or the rumble of the stage coach. Since then her residence has been almost without interruption in the town, and consequently, she was familiar with all the changes that have taken place during the passing away of nearly all those who emigrated with her from Connecticut into this valley. In 1803 she was married to Daniel Rice, Esq., with whom she lived happily till his death in 1838. She was married again in 1848 to Mr. Fenton, who survives to mourn her loss. With exemplary care and fidelity she brought up a large family of children, eight of whom are still living, and of whom seven, with twenty seven grandchildren, attended her funeral. She early made a profession of faith in Christ by uniting with the Presbyterian Church in this village in 1818, and she adorned that profession by a consistent and cheerful christian conversation to the close of her life. Mrs. Fenton was noted for great kindness of disposition and sweetness of temper, always receiving the needy, nursing the sick and comforting the afflicted, and never seeming happier than when she was contributing to the happiness of others. Her end was peaceful and happy, cheered as it was by the presence of the Savior, in whom she has so long believed. Among her last words were those she spoke to a friend a few hours before she died, ‘almost home. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord’”.