Rice, J. Sherrard, 1917-2005.

Civil rights advocate who served as pastor, 1959-1966, of First Presbyterian Church (Columbia, SC); native of Richmond, Va.; graduate of Davidson College (Davidson, N.C.), and Union Theological Seminary (Richmond, Va.); husband of Molly Wagner Rice.

At the time of Rice's service, First Presbyterian Church (Columbia, S.C.) belonged to the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS); in 1983, the "southern" PCUS joined with the "northern" United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. to form the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); in Columbia, First Presbyterian aligned itself with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian (ARP) Church.