Comments on: Guest Post: Charles Price, surveyed

By: Lea Robertson

Lea Robertson — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:43:30 +0000

Do any of you “cousins” or any other readers know anything about William Price’s (of Goshen) daughter Claire (or Clare, Clara) Florence Price? She is my great-grandmother, but I don’t know anything about her, other than her ancestry and decendency line. She was later married to Stephen Bee.

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:58:06 +0000

SLK: That is very interesting, thanks for the information.

By: SLK

SLK — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:36:04 +0000

Jeff, Charles Price had 15 children, all (apparently) with Elsa Mary Johnson. Some Ancestry trees show a Ruth Ann Galloway as another wife, but that looks unlikely to me. My aunt does know of yet another woman, Mary Rinalda Petersen, who Charles married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake in 1876. There were no children, as far as she knows. Charles Price was a member of his local Seventies quorum. He died in 1905; Elsa and 11 of his children survived him (the youngest was about 24). Here's a link to his obituary from the Deseret News that contains some other information about him. Thanks for your interest!

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:25:45 +0000

I have become very interested in Charles Price, so I want to know when he married his plural wives and were they still together when the letter was written? How many children did he have? How soon after he left office did he die? Did his widows have young children at his death? What does his obituary say about his public office? Did he hold LDS Church offices? You really have me hooked!

By: SLK

SLK — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:01:53 +0000

Thanks, everyone! Ardis, I just got a great email from my “new” cousin Kevin. Thanks for putting us in touch.

Kevin Price, I’ll reply shortly.

Anne, thanks for your kind comment!

Researcher, I’ve loved learning from your comments on Keepa. (And I’m a fan.)

Oh, and it was a Bentley family website that first gave me some valuable info about the Prices — and taught me to cast my net a bit wider than I had been. It’s fascinating to trace the web of interconnections linking those early families. It’s made me see “Brother” and “Sister” in a new light. Thank you!

Maurine, I’m a fan of yours too. Thanks for the kind words!

By: Maurine Ward

Maurine Ward — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:47:27 +0000

Scott, I loved your about your ancestor, and I am impressed with your sleuthing to fill out the story.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:02:09 +0000

Wonderful how you’ve pieced together his life from sources other than diaries and letters.

I’m currently trying to write the life history of one of my husband’s ancestors (a non-Mormon in early Utah) from information like this. It’s a daunting task, but this post is encouraging.

And I had to look up the St. George people you mention to see if any of the women in the family are on the Eminent Women list, but it looks like they aren’t, although the mothers or grandmothers of some of Richard and Elizabeth Price Bentley’s sons- and daughters-in-law were.

Thanks for the bio, SLK!

By: Kevin Price

Kevin Price — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:03:17 +0000

Please feel free to share my contact information. I now live in Kansas. My email address is kpprice [at] ksu dot edu.

[edited to avoid spam harvesting--AEP]

By: Anne (UK)

Anne (UK) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:45:30 +0000

That was a very interesting read, Scott, thank you.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:32:20 +0000

I’m going to assume that it’s okay with both of you, Scott and Kevin, for me to share your email addresses with each other so you can explore your common history.