Person Page 259

John R. Price1

born before 1848

Life Events

  • Birth: Before 1848; In Early Settlers of Alabama, James Saunders indicates that the 4th son of William H. Price and Elizabeth Dixon was born 12 years before the civil war started (about 1848); John Price is the third son and therefore would have been born before that date.1
  • Anecdote: About 1861; See person note below.1

Other Information

  • Note: In Early Settlers of Alabama, James Saunders writes that John Price was attending a military school somewhere in the North when the US Civil War broke out. He went to Richmond and joined an Alabama regiment. He was detached and sent to Florida as a drillmaster and thence to North Carolina. Here he joined a company which was sent out to
    Scotland, to bring a vessel which was being built for the Confederacy. The British Admiralty forbade the sailing of the vessel, and the company had to return home.

Citations

  1. Saunders, James Edmonds, Early Settlers of Alabama, page 122