Mary Green (Yeager) Price (1819 - 1899)

Born 20 Nov 1819 in Stoney Creek, Ontario Canada

Ancestors

Died 5 Sep 1899 at age 79 in Corinth, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Mary Green Yeager (1819-1899)

Born 20 Nov 1819, Stoney Creek, Upper Canada (Ontario) Alt. DOB (unsourced) 30 Nov 1819, Ancaster, U.C.

From, R. Robert Mutrie, The Yeager Family Album:

-After their marriage, in 1839, Moses purchased a village lot in Lot 25 Cons III at Stoney Creek for 'L'62.10 which he sold in 1841. In 1842, he then purchased another village lot for 'L' 2.10 and took out a mortgage for 'L'60.5 to construct the bulding. He sol this property and, about 1850, moved to Straffordville, Bayham Twp., elgin Co., Ont. In 1853, he purchased the Straffordville Hotel and also establshed a blacksmith business. He was still operating the hotel in 1865, but sold it to move to nearby Corinth where he was operating the St. Lawrence House Hotel in 1817 and renamed it the Price Hotel. The Prices were Methodist in religion. Moses died at Bayham on 17 Aug 1884 and his widow took out Letters of Administartion over his estate. At that time she stated that she owned the hotel in her own right. Mary died on Sep 1899. They were buried in the Cemetery jus east of Corinth.

CHILDREN:

-- Lewis, born c 1837; died 2 Sep 1871, Bayham; never married

-- Charles A, born c 1840; mar. Hannah White

-- Egbert B, b Feb 1841; mar. Anna ___

-- Sarah Jane, b 1845, Stoney Creek; mar 4 May 1865, Bayham, to James G Wison

-- Philomon, b c 1846; mar. Sarah ___

-- Adelaide (Abigail?), b Stoney Creek, c 1849

-- Caroline, b at Bayham c 1850

-- Adam, b at Bayham c 1853

-- Mary E, b 10 May 1855; mar Harvey Carnes

-- Henrietta, b Bayham in 1858 (twin). Lived with parents, and then with sister, Amoretta, at St Thomas; died St Thomas 22 Mar 1923, bur St Thomas; never married

-- Amoretta, b 1858 (twin); mar (1) Samuel Pearson; mar (2) ___Shepherd

-- George H., b Bayham 21 Jul 1860; died there 3 Apr 1862; bur Straffordville Cemetery

1871 Census, Dereham, Oxford South, Ontario: Mary Price (52), b Ont.m Weslyan Methodist, Dutch origin. Living with Moses Price (57), Labourer and six children aged 2 - 21,

1891 Census, Bayham, Elgin, Ontario: 72, Widowed, Head of Household

Died 5 Sep 1899, Elgin, Ontario: Sources: Ontario, Deaths, Archives of Ontario; "findagrave, cited in ancestry

Sources

R. Robert Mutrie,’The Yeager Family Album (Simcoe: Second Avenue Printing Ltd., 1989, p.

• diane pease ancestry tree: https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/105981827/person/290053867045/facts

See also:

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL7-YJVK : 11 July 2016), Mary Yager Price, 1899; Burial, Corinth, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, Best Cemetery; citing record ID 92344552, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

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