WILSON PRICE

SON OF VALENTINE AND CAROLINE HARGETT PRICE

of Union County, North Carolina

As remarkable as this might seem, this family also married into my Helms line in Anson/Union Counties in North Carolina. They also were in Smith County TN with the Presley family of mine, so our ties to Valentine Price are very strong.  The Helms in North Caroline also married into the Hargett family....  Jeri Helms Fultz

Wilson Price, postmaster and a well-known farmer and stock raiser of Taylor, was born in Union County, NC, July 27, 1836. His parents are Valentine and Caroline (Hargett) Price, of the same State, who a few years after their marriage first moved to Smith County, TN, where they remained for three years, and in the fall of 1849 settled in Lawrence County, Ark, at a point near Smithville, where they resided until the father’s death in 1864. Wilson Price was reared and has lived in this county since his thirteenth year. He remained with his parents until he attained his maturity and then commenced in life for himself.  He was married in his twenty-second year and located on a farm near Smithville, where he cultivated the soil until he  came to his present residence, in 1876.  Mr. Price has always been a man of industrious and progressive habits, and it did not take him long to obtain a fair competence.  He bought land and added to his possessions whenever he saw a good chance to invest, and now owns over 1,000 acres of the best land in Arkansas with some 300 acres of it cleared.  The entire amount is comprised in four tracts and is all situated in Lawrence County. Mr. Price was married in this county on January 7, 1858 to Miss Susan Ann Davis, a daughter of Ross Davis of Tennessee, but on October 11 1879 this lady died, leaving eight children to survive her. Sarah Ann, wife of John Bilberry;  Nile A, George L., David P., Filmore, Charles D., Phillip V. and Lute, a young lady.  Nile A. and George L. are both married.  Mr. Price has also lost five children, who died in early childhood.  His second wife was a widow lady, Mrs. Mary Steadman, whom he married in 1881, the lady dying in 1885 and leaving one daughter, Hattie U.  He married his present wife, who was formerly Miss Nancy Rider, of Independence County, on  July 3, 1887.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Price are members of the Baptist Church in which the former is a deacon and they are deeply interested in all matters concerning it’s welfare.. In 1885, he established a general merchandise store, and by his methods of doing business soon built up a good patronage.  A postoffice was opened up in his place of business Arpil 1886, and he was appointed postmaster, having had charge of the office since then.

“From the Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeastern Arkansas”
Published : The Goodspeed Publishing Co. - 1889

Descendants of Wilson Price

 1   Wilson PRICE 1836 - 1898
..  +Susan Ann DAVIS 1840 - 1879
 2   Sarah A. PRICE 1859 - 1938
...  +John M. BILBREY  m: 24 Dec 1884
 2   William R. PRICE 1860 - Unknown
 2   Nile Alexander PRICE 1864 - 1926
...  +Matilda Jo RANEY  m: 17 Mar 1885
 2   George L. PRICE 1867 - 1928
...  +Ester Lee RANEY  m: 2 Dec 1885
 2   David P. PRICE 1868 - 1948
...  +Nancy J. MASSEY  m: 14 Dec 1892
  *2nd Wife of David P. PRICE:
...  +Ada HALL 1882 - 1966 m: 1 Jul 1903
 3   Warren PRICE 1914 - 1967
....  +Thelma MARTIN
 2   Fillmore M. PRICE 1871 - Unknown
...  +Alice Katherine HODGES Unknown - Unknown m: 12 Jun 1894
 2   Charley D. PRICE 1872 - 1894
...  +Mary M. GRICE 1872 - m: 12 Aug 1892
 2   Phillip V. PRICE 1874 - 1928
...  +Florence GRICE  m: Dec 1895
  *2nd Wife of Phillip V. PRICE:
...  +Effie Ann EPERSON  m: 18 Jul 1900
 2   Lutie PRICE 1876 - 1962
...  +W. R. BILBREY 1870 - m: 14 Jan 1891
  *2nd Wife of Wilson PRICE:
..  +Mary West STEADMAN  m: 12 May 1881
 2   Hattie U. PRICE Unknown - Unknown
...  +R. H. BAKER Unknown - Unknown m: Unknown
  *3rd Wife of Wilson PRICE:
..  +Nancy RIDER 1868 - m: 23 Jun 1887
 2   Knoxie PRICE
...  +Frank BULLINGTON
 2   Oscar PRICE - Unknown
...  +Sarah CASON
 2   Pearl PRICE
...  +Marion SEXTON
 2   Etta PRICE
...  +Albert LONG


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