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The Price Family of Navarro Co Texas
Submitted by Carl W. Matthews
The Price Family name has been permanent and prominent in the Kerens area of Navarro County, Texas for more than a century. Residents living there in the 1930s and 1940s will remember the Price children…Carolyn, Ted, and Perry, and will remember, as well, their parents…….Weymon Adair and Hattie Icelee Arnett Price….who lived in the white house on Hiway 31.
HATTIE ICELEE ARNETT
A cute little thing with auburn hair and mischief always on her mind, who became a paraplegic as the result of an automobile accident in 1945, but who was never disabled in mind or attitude.
The Peter Arnett Family was found in the 1790 census in Anson Co NC. Sarah Arnett was born 1760. John Thomas Arnett, b1850 GA…married Sarah Gilcrease in Navarro Co TX in 1875. They had five sons and one daughter. John Wesley Arnett, Wade James Arnett, George Rubin Arnett, Benjamin Burt Arnett, William Thomas Arnett, and Matilda Arnett.
WEYMAN ADAIR PRICE
The kind, hard working, no nonsense farmer who loved his family….who lived daily the religion he embraced each Sunday at the Presbyterian Church.
Together, they lived and loved for more than a half century and set a sterling example for their children…and…for all who knew them.
WHO WERE THESE PRICES?
The earliest Price names were to be found in Wales.
Matthew Price b. 1510 lived at Newton Hall, Montgomeryshire, Wales.
He was followed by Richard Price I b. 1530 and
Richard Price II b. 1555 Manvan, Montgomeryshire, Wales
John Price I b.1584 lived at Montgomeryshire, Wales , but apparently, migrated to the Virginia Colony early in the 1600s. His son John Price II b. 1627 at Henrico Co VA married Rowen there. The area was near present day Richmond.
It was there that John Price III b. 1650 married Jane Pugh…. and John Price IV b. 1690 married Hannah Williamson. Their son, William Price, married Hannah Burton. Another son, Daniel Price, married his cousin, Mary Williamson.
Pugh Price, son oe John II and Jane Pugh Price, had a son, Pugh Price II, who settled in Fayette Co KY.
It was at this point in time that several members of the Henrico CO VA Price family migrated to Chester Co SC. The will of Thomas Price was filed there 1781. Daniel Price had migrated there and had two sons, Cutbert Price and Daniel Price Jr. Both names would surface again and again in the Price family as they migrated westward to Kerens, Texas. A John Price who was found in Chester Co SC in the census of 1790 was, possibly, another son.
The 1850 Chester Co SC census presented a Daniel Price III born 1794 and was married to Mary Gunn. Daniel had a brother whose name was John Price.
Cutbert Price, son of Daniel Sr Price, was born 1766 and married Margaret Dorsey in Henrico Co VA, migrated to Chester Co SC, and was said to have died there in 1834. Their children were said to have included the following:
Joseph Price who married Mary Polly Dorsey,
daughter of Cornelius Dorsey who died at Chester Co SC in1820.
Possible son…Alexander C Price who was found in the 1840
Walker Co AL census and who had a son whose name was Alexander Cornelius Price
Interesting: The Bible of Johnson Dorsey b. 1815 and who married Sarah Glass in 1836 was found in an old house at Palestine, Anderson Co TX
Cutbert Price who married Margaret Straight in 1827 in Green Co AL and died there before 1832. Margaret Straight Price was remarried to Joseph Trussell in 1832 in Green Co AL. Both were killed by slaves in 1835. The name Trussell was connected to the Price family in Chester Co
Sally Price who married 1825 John Ritchey in Green Co AL. William Richey married c1825 Margaret Ann ADAIR and lived in Pickens Co Alabama. Elizabeth ADAIR married Robert Dale in Pickens Co AL John & Margaret Richey were in SC in the 1770s. Sarah Jane Ritchey was found at Tuscaloosa AL in 1852. She had a brother whose name was Curry Ritchey.
SOME ADAIR, APPERSON, PRICE INFO
James ADAIR Sr married Ann Stevenson b.1742 in CHESTER Co SC
Her father, David, came to live with them in Chester Co SC
Did a Price marry into this family?
Their daugher, Elizabeth Adair, married Robert Dale in Pickens Co AL, later migrated to Lowndes Co MS. The Price-Adair-Ritchey Families lived in the triangle of Green-Pickens-Tuscaloosa Cos. AL
Robert Sidney Adair married Elizabeth Posey
Robert Sidney Adair b1826 GA…m. Lucy Jane Price…
dau of James b1818 and Emeline Price Gwinnett Co GA, but may have migrated from SC
Francis Farmer Adair m. 1818 Nancy Apperson, Morgan Go GA He was born Laurens Co SC Mary Adair m. John Apperson. All four lived Augauga Co AL.
Zadock Adair & Sarah Kelly b1784 Laurens Co SC
Weyman Adair (1808-1853)
Zadock “Odeor” m Sarah Wood 1808 KY
Weyman Adair married 1836 Delthia Stauntan DeBerry
parents of
Mary Delthia Adair b.1837
Zadock Adair died 1853 Lauderdale Co MS..just west Green Co AL
Weyman Adair m. 1847 Talapoosa Co AL Carolina Conant
Elizabeth Price who married 1825 William Read in Green Co AL
Thomas J Price who was born 1794-in Chester Co SC. It was there that he
met and married Married Elenor Lewis.
Elenor was the daughter of Moses Lewis who born at Richmond VA and died in Chester Co SC. After Moses died, his wife, Elizabeth Lewis migrated to Green Co AL with her daughter Elenor. Elenor had two sisters, Charity Lewis Parks, who lived at Battlefield, Lauderdale Co MS, and Elizabeth Lewis.
Thomas J and Elenor Lewis Price migrated from Chester Co SC to Green Co Alabama. Some references indicate they may have lived for a time in Walker Co Alabama prior to migrating to Green Co. where many of their children married. They would migrate once more to Anderson Co Texas.
Both are buried there at Prices Chapel Cemetery which is located three mile North of Palestine TX and east of Hiway 155.
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THE THOMAS PRICE FAMILY
IN
GREEN CO ALABAMA
It was in Green Co Alabama in 1852 that Elenor Price wrote a letter to her sister, Charity Lewis Parks, Battlefield, Lauderdale Co MS which is located just across the state line from Green Co AL. Her father was Moses Lewis and she had a second sister, Elizabeth. She referred to her husband as “Mr. Price, and mentions Weyman, Cutberth, William,, Sammy T, Daniel,…and she is….. “giving up about going to Texas.”
(Trussell collection at University of Texas Library at Arlington, Texas)
The following children appear in various Green Co Alabama records.
Margaret S Price 1818-1824 She lived for six years
Cutbert Lewis Price 1821-1899 Cutbert Lewis Price was married in Green Co in 1849 to Elizabeth A Johnson. The 1860 Anderson Co Texas census records C L Price is married to E A. Their son was John Caldwell Price. Eleanor Price, in her will of 1862, mentions her son, C L Price.
William S Price 1824- William S Price was married in Green Co Alabama in 1856 to Mary Ann Cockrell. They had a son, Weyman Adair Price, who was born before 1862 and was named after a younger brother of William S Price.
Elizabeth A Price 1826- Elizabeth A Price was married in Green County Alabama in 1847 to Thomas Peter Hamilton b.1826, a son of James Monroe Hamilton. He was a grandson of Capt Peter Thomas Hamilton who died in Green Co AL in 1850. Capt. Hamilton had married a second time in 1841 to Ann Posey, dau of William Posey of Green Co Alabama. He was murdered by slaves who wanted off July 4. Interesting is the fact that Adren Posey 1830-1912 CSA is buried at Prairie Point Cemetery near Bazzette/
Samuel Thomas Price 1831- Samuel Thomas Price was married in
Green Co Alabama in 1852 to Sarah Otts. Samuel T Price is mention as a son in the 1862 will of Lenor Lewis Price at Anderson Co Texas. Posey Otts married Virginia Anderson and was living in Young Co Texas in 1871 when a daughter was born. The Posey name surfaces a number of times with Price and related families. A number of Price families are found inYoung Co Texas.
Susan Price Susan Price was married in Green Co Alabama in 1855 to Amos Lay. Amos Lay was, probably, the son of Amos Lay Sr. who was born in Virginia in 1800, and a grandson of Emanuel Lay who had migrated to Green Co Alabama from Chester Co SC between 1834 and 1837. The Lay Family was related to the Hardin Family. Some member of the Lay family migrated to Scott Co MS.
Weyman Adair Price 1836- Weyman Adair Price did not marry in Green Co Alabama. He would have been eighteen years of age when the family migrated to Anderson Co Texas in 1854.
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Thomas J and Elenor Lewis Price migrated from Green Co Alabama to Anderson Co Texas in 1854.,. Cutbirt Lewis Price & his family may have settled there as early as 1851, the year their son, T. E. Price, was born.
THE 1850 ANDERSON CO CENSUS
Price-Posey-Holloway-Gray
Elanor Price was listed #137 as Head of Household with Weyman and Sarah Price living with her. Thomas J Price had died in 1858 and Weyman had married Sarah Ann Gray in January of 1860. Eleanor was sixty…b1800….was a farmer. Her real property was listed as $1700, personal property was $9000. SC was listed as her birthplace. Weyman was listed as twenty-four years of age….Sarah Ann was twenty-two. Weyman and Sarah were shown to have been born in Alabama. Sarah was, actually, born in Illinois.
Weyman Adair Price b1836 had married Sarah Ann Gray b1838… in Anderson Co Texas on January 26, 1860. Two years later he would be serving in the Confederate Army. Four of the Albritton sons would serve as well. Matthew Ford Albritton married Pelina Gray, Sarah’s sister. John Gray 1845-1927, Sarah’s brother, would, also, serve. All were buried at the Prairie Point Cemetery near Bazzette, Texas.
William Gray, Sarah’s father, was Head of Household at # 782. He was fifty-four, born NC, his real property was $1600, his personal property $6230. His wife, Sally, was fifty and was born in Tennessee. Their son, John Gray, age 15, was born in Illinois. Three younger children were born in Texas….Melvina & Pelina, age 12, and Leonard, age 8. The Gray family, apparently, migrated from North Carolina to Tennessee to Illinois …then to Texas in 1845.
C L Price was listed as #161. This was Cutbert Lewis Price, age thirty-nine, a farmer, born Alabama, his real property was listed as $1600., his personal property $10,900. E A was shown as his wife…she was thirty years old. He had married Elizabeth A Johnson in Green Co Alabama. Their children were T E age 9 (f), F E age 7 (m), S E age 4 (f), and C J age 1 (f). Cutbert & Elizabeth may have settled in Anderson Co Texas as early at 1851 based on the fact that their first son was born in Texas that year.
Samuel T Price and William S Price, children mentioned in the 1862 will of Elenor Lewis Price and who married in Green Co Alabama, are not shown in the 1860 Anderson Co census.
W S Price was found in Navarro Co. Texas and was one of the first to build a residence in the new town of Kerens, Texas in 1881. This must have been William S Price, son of Thomas J and Elenor Lewis Price. He was born in 1824 and would have been fifty-seven in 1881. He and his brother, Weyman Adair Price, signed the 1888 petition to organize the town of Kerens. His brother, Weyman Adair Price had a son whose name was William Sidney Price who was born after 1862, but it is doubtful that he would have made such a purchase at the age of nineteen or younger.
Samuel T Price was living at the time of his Mother’s 1862 will, but he was not found in Anderson Co or in adjacent counties.
Thomas Price was listed at # 951. He was 51 and born in Georgia, but his children were born in Arkansas and Louisiana. The names Daniel, Thomas J, and William indicate that these Prices were “kin,” probably first cousins who kept in touch despite distances.
Elenor Lewis Price died July 29, 1862
Her will was recorded in Anderson Co Texas.
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Anderson County
STATE OF TEXAS
WILL OF ELENOR LEWIS PRICE
1862
I, Elenor Price of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby make and publish this my last will and testament…..hereby revoking and annulling all and every will by me heretofore made.
` FIRST, I direct and desire that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid.
SECOND, I give and bequeath to my son C L Price my two Negro men slaves, Henry and Japee
THIRD, I give and bequeath to my Grandaughter, Elenor Abigail Price, daughter of my son, William S Price, my Negro girl, Leatha, age about ten years.
FOURTH, I give and bequeath to my Granddaughter, Texana Eleanor Price, daughter of my son C L Price, my Negro girl, Alice, age six years.
FIFTH, I give and bequeath to my Grandson, Weyman A Price, son of my son, William S Price, my Negro girl, Dolly, about ten years of age.
SIXTH, I give and bequeath to my daugher-in-law, Sarah Ann Price, wife of my son, Weyman A Price, my Negro girl, Zaney, about seven years of age.
SEVENTH, I give and bequeath to my son, Samuel T Price, my Negro woman, Sally, age about forty-two years.
EIGHTH, I give and bequeath to my son, Weyman A Price, the following Negro slaves
Jack
Sampson
Danny
Andy
Tenor
Watsy
Peter
Olivere
I also give and bequeath to my said son, Weyman A Price, the plantation upon which I now reside and all the farming utensils of every kind whatever and all the livestock, horses, mules, cattle, and hogs, and all my property of every kind and description, household and kitchen, furniture, books and papers not herein before disposed of.
But, as my son, Weyman A Price, is now in the army of the Confederate States exposed to all the perils of war and may not live to return to his family, I desire and direct that in the event that my son, Weyman A Price, not return safely to his family, discharged from the conflict raging between the Confederate States and the United States, then and in that event, I give and bequeath my Negro slaves…Jack, Sampson, Danny, Andy, Tenor, Watsy, Peter, and Oliver to my little Grandson, William S Price, the son of my said son, Weyman A Price.
And, I further direct and desire that my said little Grandson, William S Price, die before he arrives at the age of twenty one years, then and in that event, I direct and desire that the said Negro slaves last above mentioned, shall be divided to and amongst my Grandchildren then living and being the Granchildren of my four sons herein named and their descendents.
And, I further direct and desire that should my said son, Weyman A Price, not return in safety, discharged from the war as aforesaid, then, in that event the plantation, farming utensils, live stock, horses, mules, cattle and hogs, household and kitchen, furniture & books be sold and the proceeds arising from the sale to be divided as follows: Five hundred dollars to be paid to my son, Samuel T Price, and the balance to be divided amongst my said Grandchildren, unless my said son, Weyman A Price, is safely discharged from the war to his family…and in that case my will and desire is that the property mentioned in this eighth article of my will all go to him as therein stated.
NINTH, I do hereby constitute and appoint my two sons, C L Price and Weyman A Price, the executors of this my last will and testament and I provide that either of them may, in the absence of the other, execute this my will alone, or if one of them dies or declines to execute this will the other may act alone.
And, I hereby direct and provide by this my last will and testament that no other action shall be had in the County Court relating to my estate on the settlement thereof, that the Probate and registration of this my last will and testament and the return of an inventory of my estate..
And, I do further provide and direct that no surety shall be required of my said executors or either of them herein before named.
Signed ELENOR PRICE
Witnesses
Thomas J Word
Henry Atkinson
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STATE OF TEXAS )( Inventory of the property belonging to the
County of Anderson )( Estate of Eleanor Price dec’d
September 26, 1862 )(
555 acres of Land appraised @ $4. per ac $ 2222.
Negro Man Henry 600
Jesse 700.
Negro Goy Sampson 450.
Andy 700.
Peter 400.
Oliver 400.
Jack 400.
Negro Girl Fannie 800.
Wathy 550.
Lenor 700.
Leattia 500.
Zona 175.
Alice 200.
Dolly 300.
Negro Woman Sally 300.
1 young mare 150.
1 mule jack 175.
1 mule jack 140.
1 yoke of old oxen 25.
1 yoke of young oxen 50.
1 yoke of good oxen 75.
1 lot of hogs 57 in number @ $5. per head 255.
22 head cattle @ $6 132.
1 lot fodder 60.
1 lot new corn 867.
1 lot old corn 75.
5 bales cotton 225.
1 steer wagon 50.
4 log chains 8.
1 lot of plows and single trees 19,.
1 lot of hames and trace chains 9.
1 lot sundry forming tools 13.75
1 lot new work for wagons 16.50
1 Loom $7.50 1 workbench and screw $1.50 9.00
1 lot peas 27.50
1 grind rock $3. a sythe $5.00 8.
1 iron rake $ .75 2 buckets & wash pan $2. 2.75
1 side saddle, blanket, and bridle 9.
2 wheels & …something 14.
4 pr cards $7.5 7 chairs $3.50 11.
3o yds domestic @ $ .50 per yd 15.
16 yds domestic @ $ .25 per yd 4.00
40 yds home made cloth 12.25
1 lot coffee (Pis) $12.50 1 box $ .25 12.75
1 lot tools and steel yard tools $8 1 clock $12. 20.
2 smoothing irons $1 2 tables $2. 3.0
1 lot crockrey ware bottles Vc 20.
1 lot books $5 1 pr sissors $1.50 6.50
2 beds 2 bvewdsteads & bed-clothing 65.
1 trunk 1 box 1 carpet sack 5.
1 lot cooking utensils 15.
3 pails $3 1 churn and tin ware & sundries 9.
1 meat grinder $2.75 barrels & coffee mill 4.25
1 half bushel $1.50 9 bu wheat $18 19.50
2 pots $12. 1 lot plows & sundries $9.25 21.25
1 lot iron bands & sundries 3.50
1 set blacksmith tools 50.
200 lbs iron $40. 1 lot coal $3 43.
Crop potatoes 35.
31 ½ dollars in specie 31.50
112 dollars in paper money 112.
TOTAL $11,786.10
Submitted to Anderson Co. Court
By C L Price & Calloway Dial
October 29, 1862
WEYMAN ADAIR PRICE
The name…Weyman Adair Price…may be traced to the Laurens Co SC marriage of Thomas Adair and Nancy Weyman. Their son, Zadock Adair, married Sarah Kelly and became parents of Weyman Adair, born 1808. Rev. Weyman Adair married Delithia DeBerry in Laurens Co SC. Rev. Wayman Adair, probably a son of Zadock Adair, married Caroline Canant in 1847 at Tusculoosa Co AL, a county adjacent to Green Co AL where the Joseph T Price family settled. Zadock Adair lived in Perry Co AL, also adjacent to Green Co AL….and was found in the 1850 Texas census living in Houston Co, next door to Anderson Co where the Green Co AL Price Family had migrated in the same decade.
Could it be that The Rev. Weyman Adair was a preacher living in Tuscaloosa AL and was pastor of the church where the Thomas J Price Family attended. Was he related to the family in some way? Regardless, when the boy child was born to Thomas J and Elenor Lewis Price in 1836…he was given the name.. Weyman Adair Price.
The name was passed on to a son born to William S Price prior to 1862 and when the boy child was born to Weyman and Sarah Ann Gray Price between 1860 and 1862…he was named William Sidney Price for his uncle…and known in the Kerens area as “Will Sidney” Price.
The 1862 will of Elenor Lewis Price clearly left the bulk of her estate to Weyman Adair Price…her youngest son….suggesting that the three other sons had received their inheritances earlier. Cutbert Lewis Price was shown in the 1860 census.to have accumulated a sizable estate. William S Price settled at some point in Navarro Co and was a prominent citizen there by 1881 when he “moved to the new city of Kerens.”
Weyman Adair Price…did…return safely to his family after the hostilities of the Civil War ended. He had served in the 13th Regiment Texas Cavalry. Three Price names appear on the muster of “D” Company….Weyman A Price, Samuel T Price, & Josiah Price.
Weyman & Sarah filed CSA Pension applications in Navarro Co
Weyman # 31989 shown as Wyman Price
Sarah # 36313
(Jan Wallace [email protected])
THE 13TH TEXAS REGIMENT
The 13th Texas Cavalry mustered with men from northeastern Texas counties in February 1862 and reorganized in May 1862 at Porter Springs, Houston Co. Texas. The unit trained briefly north of Tyler and in July departed for Arkansas. Thirty men died in July and August when an epidemic of measles and typhoid fever struck the camp. The unit was deployed along the White River in northern Arkansas during the month of October, saw no action, but encountered severe freezing rail. The unit returned to Camp Nelson near Austin AR where sickness, again, began to claim more lives. Rations were limited and of poor quality. Twenty-five men died in November alone. The muster in June 1863 revealed that almost two hundred men had died or become disabled and discharged.
It was January 1863 that the unit was ordered to reinforce a post on the Arkansas River, but it was captured by General Sherman before they arrived. They were redirected to construct defensive earthworks upriver to counter a Union threat that did not materialize. More men died, however, from the freezing rain before the unit was ordered to winter quarters.
The unit experienced a single brief skirmish in 1863 where one man was killed. The balance of the year was spent on picket duty on the Red River. During the spring of 1864 the unit moved to Louisiana and, when threatened by a Union force of 40,000, retreated in confusion. Five men were captured. Later, the unit participated in the Battle of Pleasant Hill where ten men were killed and forty-one wounded. The unit was in Shreveport in January and ordered to return to Texas in the spring. Most members of the 13th Texas Cavalry were home on leave when the surrender at Appomattox was announced.
The 1870 Navarro Co Texas census reveals that
William Gray….age sixty and from Tennessee, is there with his wife, Sally Sinclair. His son, John Gray, lives nearby, and has a wife and two year old son. Shown on Beat # 3 Wadeville
James and Mary Peters from Georgia are there with their family…probably related to Washburn Peters of Kerens.
Noble Wade and his family were listed. He and his wife were from Kentucky.
A Posey from Georgia is listed.
NO MEMBERS OF THE THOMAS J PRICE FAMILY
WERE FOUNDIN 1870 NAVARRO CO CENSUS
Facts indicate that William S Price and Weyman Adair Price moved from Anderson Co Texas to Navarro Co at some point between 1870 and 1881 when William S Price purchased a lot and had a residence constructed in Kerens. Both brothers were among the petitioners in 1888 calling for the community of Kerens to be organized. A search of deed records in both counties would provide the exact dates.
William S Price fades from the records and it is possible that he moved to Henderson Co.
Weyman Adair and Sarah Ann Gray Price, apparently, moved to the Bazzette area of Navarro Co where Sarah’s parents had moved prior to 1870. Weyman and Sarah had married in Anderson Co Texas in January 1860 and were living with Weyman’s Mother, Elenor, at the time of the 1860 census. Two years later, Weyman was in service with the Confederate Army and, their son,William S Price, had been born.
Sarah’s parents were listed in the 1870 Navarro Co census as living in the Wadeville community. The Texas Handbook states that Wadeville is located three miles south of Kerens, but the William Gray family and the Weyman Price family are buried at the Prairie Point Cemetery which is located near Bazzett….three miles NORTH of Kerens. More, Noble Wade lived north of Kerens on the road from Porters Bluff to Corsicana.
William Gray b.1808 and his wife, Sarah Sinclair Gray are buried at Prairie Point Cemetery. Nearby are the graves of their son, John Gray, and his wife, Susan Leah Gaines. They were married in Anderson Co. Another son, Leonard Gray and his wife Amanda, are buried there. Melvina Gray married a Mr. Warren and they are buried there. Her twin sister, Pelinia married Matthew Ford Albritton. They, too, are buried at Prairie Point Cemetery.
Weyman Adair Price 1836-1919 and Sarah Ann Gray Price are buried there. Adjacent to their graves are two additional graves….a Mother and child. Their son William Sidney Price had married Frances L Coulson and she and her infant child were buried there in 1892. Frances Coulson was born in 1862 near the year in which William Sidney Price was born.
Uncle “Will Sidney” Price lived into the 1930s and was well known in Kerens by family and friends. He would have been seventy-three years of age in 1935. “Will Sidney” was not buried at Prairie Point Cemetery and it is probable that he remarried after the death of Frances Coulson. He may be buried at the Kerens Cemetery.
His brother was Lewis Price and there is the possibility that his name was Cutbert Lewis Price. Lewis Price married Rilla Wade November 27, 1896 at Navarro Co Texas. Lewis Price and Rilla Wade were the parents of Weyman Adair Price who was born in 1903, who married Hattie Icelee Arnett. Their second son was Wade Price.
My, but those Price families reused those family names…..
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CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION
Weyman A Price
made application for a Confederate Pension
September 11, 1915
He listed his Post Office as Kerens. He had served as a “wagonner” and teamster and had been honorably discharged at Pine Bluff, Ark. He was seventy-nine years of age and had been born at Green Co. AL. He had lived in Texas since 1854 and had moved to Kerens in 1868. He was not engaged in any type of work and his health was listed as…poor. The house in which he lived was valued at $800.
His army unit had been organized in Texas. He had served for about six months, in camp and after that was detailed as a “wagoner” in 1863. Capt. Barrett of Anderson, Rusk Co had detailed him to the “wagoner” position. He thinks he served in Co D, 13th Texas Cavalry.
Two witnesses placed their signatures on the document….W W Hemphill and Arthur Mays. R. R. Owen, County Judge, Navarro Co TX placed his Seal on the document.
A letter from the War Department, Texas Adjutant General’s Office stated that he had served as a private in Co D, 13th Regiment, Texas Cavalry, CSA and on the company roll January and February 1863.
PROOF OF SERVICE: Shade Cantrell, age seventy-eight, offered proof of his service in the CSA. Shade stated that he, Shade Cantrell, had served three years six months with Co D – 13th Texas Dismounted Cavalry with Weyman A Price. He did not remember how long Weyman Price served, but that “He was a true, loyal soldier.” If Price ever deserted he..Shade Cantrell….never heard of it. Officers were remembered as Capt James Hanks and Cal. Burnett. Shade Cantrell was a resident of Henderson Co TX
PROOF OF SERVICE: Pink Gaines was seventy-three, a White American residing in Anderson Co. TX who served Co D – 13th Texas Cavalry for three years and three months. He personally knew Weyman A Price and that he served over a year. He was a good soldier and served honorably and never deserted.
The Pension was allowed….December 1, 1915
WIDOWS APPLICTION CSA
Sarah A Price
lNavarro Co TX
Listed her Post Office as Kerens
made application for a Confederate Widow’s Pension
January 9, 1919.
She was the eighty year old widow of W E Price who had died June 11, 1919 at Navarro Co TX. They had married January 20, 1860 at Anderson Co TX. She was born at Macoupin Co Illinois and had resided in Texas for seventy-four years (1845). She had lived in Navarro Co Texas for fifty-one years (1868). Her husband had served in the Confederate Army for four years and was in Co D commanded by Capt Jim Hanks. He was first in the cavalry, but was later transferred to a different department. She owned no property.
Witnesses, W R Gray and G W Speed, affixed their signatures to the document on December 9, 1919.
PROOF OF SERVICE J W Carroll, an ex confederate soldier, stated he was eighty years of age, was well acquainted with W A Price, deceased, in his lifetime and had known him for more than fifty years. He had reason to believe that W A Price served in the Civil War based on conversations that included events during the war.
The Pension was allowed beginning December 1, 1919.
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APPLICATION FOR MORTUARY WARRANT
W S Price made the application stating that he was the person entrusted with paying the accounts and indebtedness of “the Late Mrs. Sarah A Price.” The date was July 19, 1929. W S Price stated that the Pensioner was his mother. His address was given as Post Office Box 62, Kerens, Texas. P N Stockton, Undertaker in the town of Kerens, Navarro Co, Texas stated that he had charge of the body of Mrs. Sarah A Price who had died July 11, 1929.
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Robert Smith
Married
Nancy Ann Wells
Oct 24, 1816
Children:
William Allen Smith 1817
Mary G Smith 1820 SEE BELOW
Thomas Smith 1822
Martha Smith 1824
Robert Smith II 1827 m. Sarah Frances Fanny Weeden b1848 TX
Lived in Van Zant Co TX 1880s
Willaby Wells Smith 1829
James W Smith 1833
John Nofflet Smith 1835
Stella Smith 1866- , dau of John Nofflet and Fannie Wade Smith
Married
James Frank Weeden c1866
Son J Frank Weeden 1899- Evangelist, Baptist Convention of Texas
Mary G Smith b1820
Married
David W Sherrill
May 31, 1838
Children:
William David Sherrill 1839 m. Lou Mize
Martha Louise Sherrill 1840 m. William Bill Wade
Mary Gertrude Sherrill 1842 m. Mack Wade
James Thomas Sherrill 1845 m. Mary Molly Hodge
Bee…son died young
Florence Sherrill ???? m. 1st William Bill Wade
after her sister Martha died
m. 2nd Walter E Smith
SEE BELOW
Eva Sherrill
Charlie Sherrill m. 1st Onnie Owen
m. 2nd Lula Posey
Claude Sherrill m. Fannie Chitwood
Bobby Sherrill m. Emma Leach
Ophellia Sherrill
Florence Sherrill
Married 1st
William Bill Wade, widower of Martha Louise Sherrill
Children:
Fannie Wade m. Less Noble
Basil
Golda
Ray
Ruth
Rilla Wade m. Lewis Price (C L Price??)
Wade Price
Weyman Adair Price
Florence Sherrill
Married 2nd
Walter E Smith
Children:
Eddie Smith m. Johnnie Etheridge
Walter Valkey Smith (f) m. Eldridge McCord
John McCord m. Sue ??? Perry’s friend
Neil McCord m. Willie Betty Slay
Delia McCord
Marilyn McCord
Myrtle Smith m. Dr Seale - dentist in Kerens
J P Seale
Brownie Smith died young m. Lacy Garrett
Samuel Eugene Garrett
Billy Garrett died age five yearS - meningitis
William Marion Price & Mahalia Caroline Tillman Price (b1840 GA) moved from Anderson Co TX to Cherokee Co TX after 1850….settled at Pierces Chapel. (Price community is located just across river from Anderson Co) William was shot and killed on his farm near the Neches River. He was buried on the spot where he was shot. Mahalia died 1858 and is buried at the Tillman Cemetery, Cherokee Co TX. Children: Emm C Lydia A William E Newton Zachariah Joseph V John F Asa C
(James Miller [email protected])
Matthew Price married Catherine Mattie Morgan and lived in Anderson Co TX Both are buried at Price Chapel Cemetery. Their daughter, Louranda Ellen Price, married Thomas Anthony Fitzgerald. Both are buried at Rock Church Cemetery, Blackfoot TX. Their first child was bornn 1885 at Blackfoot.
( Denise Miller dechmil@aol .com)
Note: Blackfoot is located west of Hiway 19, north of Hiway 321, and east of Bethel community on Hiway 287.
ARNETT FAMILY
Elijah Price married Victoria Arnett and they lived in Kentucky in the late 1700s. A branch of their family settled at Liberty Hill, Navarro CO TX (Al Houle [email protected])
1797 Caswell Co NC….John Price, Power of atty…sells land to Thomas Arnett. Charles Price is witness
John Thomas Arnett b1850 GA
married Sarah Gilcrease 1875 Navarro Co TX
John Wesley Arnett
Wade James Arnett
George Reuben Arnett
Benjamin Burt Arnett
William Thomas Arnett
Son Jesse Thomas Arnett
Molly Matilda Arnett married Thomas Chandler Smyrl
Son John Wallace Smyrl b. 1897 Navarro Co TX
MEMBERS… Navarro Co.
Texas United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Miss Lula Hemphill married W S Price.
Miss Jewell McCullough married C D Speed.
Navarro Co Scroll 1965
(((( Price in CSA …Texas
Anderson Co Able Price Sr wife Nancy
Henderson James A Price
Marcus D L Price wife M S
Russell Pice
Limestone James Edward Price
Van Zant Lawson Price
1824- William S Price m. Rhoda Hardin
Rhoda Hardin Price died in Henderson CO TX
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PRAIRIE POINT CEMETERY
One & One-half miles NE Bazzett Community, Navarro Co TX
3-4 miles North of Kerens
Florence L Coulson was a daugtter of G A & Marian Glasscock Coulson. Grandfather Jacob Coulson was born VA 1806. He married Johanna Graham and died in Alabama.
Matthew Ford Albritton married Pelinia Gray, Sister of Sarah Gray Price
Mary Albritton married Barry Speed.
Her brother, William T Albritton b1879, married Minnie Faulkner of Kerens.
The Albrittons settled in the Bazzette community in the 1880s.
1850 Blount Co AL__________________________________________
Gray 146-A
Price 128-A 139-A
Glasscock 171-B
Holoway 123=B
Posey 96-97-98 B
Rucker 96-A
Sanders 126-A 127-B 168-B
Sawyer & Scroggins
Turner 122-A
Wade Many, many
M E Price CSA Lived Warrior AL
Prater
Berry Many families
PERRY CO AL MARRIAGES
1833 Sarah Price William Eubanks.
1844 William Price Selva Little Williams.
1840 Edmund Price Sarah Williams
1831 Benjamin Price ..Reney Clifton
1852 James Price Caroline E Smith
1827 Margaret Adair William Scott
1830 Mary Adair Joseph Scott
1830 Rebecca Adair Hugh W Goodwin
GREEN CO ALABAMA
Trussell Family was there
Prices listed in 1830 Cenus
Cutbrith Price had Federal Land Grant July 21, 1826
MARRIAGES
1823 Edwin Price Sarah Phillips Baldwin
1825 Sally Price John Richey
Probably son of Alexander Richey
1825 Elizabeth Price William Read
1827 Cutbreth Price Margaret Strait
Cutbreath died 1829, Margaret married Joseph Trussell
Margaret & Joseph Trussell were killed by slaves in 1835.
1830 Huey Price Ishmael McRacker
1847 Elizabeth A Price Thomas Pet (Peter?) Hamilton
Hamiltons married Poseys ..Green Co AL
Posey family settled Bazzett Community, Navarro Co TX
Thomas J Price, born 1796 in Chester Co. South Carolina moved through Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and, settled in ANDERSON CO. TEXAS, several miles North of Palestine. Price Chapel may still be found there today.
Al Houle…[email protected]
Elijah Price b. 1879..m. Victoria Arnett Three Springs, Barron Co KY
Lived at one time….Liberty Hill, Navarro Co TX
Thomas J Price b. 1796 Chester Co SC
Marries Elenor Lewis c1816 Jefferson Co GA
William S Price is born 1824 Verified
Marries Green Co AL
Marries 1844 Martha Rhoda Hardin
Weyman Adair Price is born 1846 Verified by name and relationship
Son of William S Price
Marries 1866 Virginia Elizabeth
Medora Elizabeth Price is born 1880 Aug 29
Daughter of Weyman A & Sarah Gray Price
Grandfather Price is born c1870 May be found at Kerens cemetery
Marries somebody 1895
Dad is born 1901 Verified
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