Hannah Francis (Shell) Price (1813 - 1909)

Born 26 Nov 1813 in Montgomery County, VA

Ancestors

Wife of Henry R. Price — married 23 Dec 1832 in Montgomery County, VA

Died 24 May 1909 at age 95 in Holt, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Although the 1900 census showed she was born in Nov 1811, her baptism record and gravestone shows born 26 Nov 1813. The obit below states she died on May 31, but her gravestone clearly shows it was May 24, 1909.

Obit: Mrs. Fanny (Nee Shell) died May 31, 1909. She was born Nov. 26, 1813 at Blacksburg, Montgomery county, Virginia, of mixed German and France ancestry. Her ancestors had lived in Virginia since its very early settlement. She married Israel Price at Blacksburg on Dec. 17, 1831. Mr. Price was born in 1812 and died June 30, 1860 at St. Stephen, Nebr., where he is buried. Stephen was a town which disappeared when the railroad was built along the east side of the river. It lay a mile and half north of the present town of Fargo.

In 1856, Mr. and Mrs. Price, along with their eight children moved to Holt county, MO., overland from Virginia to the river town of Marietta, They lived there for six months and then moved to St. Stephen.

After the death of Mr. Price in 1860,they continued to live at St. Stephen for twelve years, and immediately after the railroad reached this point, they moved to Craig in the fall of 1868.

Mrs. Price helped to organize the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Craig in February, 1885, and was its active promoter until the weakness of old age supervened. She was also a member of and worker in the order of Rebekah's so long as her strength held out.

Four children survive her: W.N. of Phoenix, Arizona., Mrs. (Vena) William Richardson, of Sawtelle, Calif., J.R. and R.M. of Craig, MO. She also leaves two sisters in Snowville, Virginia and one brother in Knoxville, Tenn., and one brother in Georgetown, Tenn.(Error: Texas) Burial in New Liberty Cemetery. Bio Source: Holt County Missouri Death Notices, 1909-10, Page 34, and The Craig Leader, Nov. 27, 1908.[FAG member Cynthia Kinney]

Fanny was living with her son Robert Price when she passed.

Sources

• Baptism Record at St. Michael's Church, Montgomery, VA
• 1900 Union/Holt/MO: Fanny born Nov 1811
• New Liberty Cemetery, Holt, MO

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