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Oddly, I have seen two similar names in old census records. Icie and Jicey. Spelling varies a bit. These show up in the southern US. In the case of Jicey, I have come to suspect her name was actually Joyce and she was perhaps called "Joycey. Jicey, I think might just have been how they pronounced it. And spelling being what it was back then, it was written down as pronounced. I'm still unsure about Icie, but I wonder if there is a similar evolution of that name. I've not heard of Spicey.