David Price (1770 - 1845)

Born Jun 1770 in Fairfax, Virginia

Husband of Millie (Parker) Price — married 19 Sep 1796 in Franklin, Virginia

Descendants

Died 2 Sep 1845 at age 75 in Bond County, Illinois

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Biography

In Fairfax, Virginia, David was born in 1770, the oldest child of Jonathan and Hannah (Bonnel) Price. He would marry Millie Parker on September 19, 1796, in Franklin County, Virginia. Together they would have a large family as follows:

Sallie (Price) Williford (1797-1826)

Rhody Price (1799- )

Nancy M. (Price) Williford (1801-1886)

John Price (1805-1874)

Thomas Price (1807-1852)

Mary Price (1809-1888)

Jonathan Price (1812-1898)

Evan Price (1814-1897)

David would move his family to Tennessee and then, after the death of Millie, he moved on to Illinois where he farmed and lived out his life passing away in 1845 at the age of 75 years.

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The following biography is from David's Find A Grave Memorial:

The Price ancestors came from Wales in 1725. Jonathan Price, David's father, was born in Franklin County, Virginia in 1740. He married Mary (last name unknown), and a son was born to them in June of 1770, to whom they gave the name David.

In Franklin Co., Colony of Virigina, David Price married Milley Parker, daughter of Thomas and Mary Parker, in the same county, Sept. 17, 1795. On the same date David Price and Dudley Lumsden were bound out to Robert Brooks, Esq., Governor or Chief Magistrate to the state of Virginia, in the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars current money of Virginia. This was probably for one year, the same as hiring a man to work for that amount of money.

(In 1943, Violet Willeford File wrote to Franklin County., Va. and recieved the two papers giving consent to the Marriage of David and Milly Parker Price and signed by both the fathers, Johathan (signed Jon) Price and Thomas Parker. Also the paper showing that David was bound out.

David and Milley Price had 8 children, all born in Virginia: Rhoda, John, Thomas, Jonathan, Evan, Nancy, Sally, and Polly.

They emigrated to Tennessee, probobly with James Willeford's Family. This was in 1810. They, the Prices and the Willefords, went to near Murfeesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, but came from different counties in Virginia.

David Price lived in Tennessee for 17 years. He served as a private in the war of 1812 in 1814 and 1815.

David Price and James Willeford (both of their wives had died) moved to Illinois in 1827. They came with one wagon and one team, a mule and a horse.

David settled with his family on section 2, township 5, range 4, west of the third Principal meridian. They made their first camp in what is now the city park. (Patriot's Park in Greenville, Illinois)

James and his family stopped near the mouth of Indian Creek, where they built a house little better than a rail pen, and lived in it the first winter. They then moved to the 40 acres north of where David Price had settled.

The property David Price entered was the east half of the southeast quarter. It was the home site of John T. Willeford, a great great grandson of David Price. It is now owned by his son, Alvin Willeford.

Sources

• Family Search Pedigree Chart [1]

• "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRQ6-45Q : 11 February 2018), David Price and Milly Parker, 19 Sep 1796; citing Franklin County, Virginia, reference p79; FHL microfilm 31,523.

• "United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJD5-V2YB : 9 March 2018), David Price, 29 Jun 1812; citing p. 52, volume 019, , , , United States, NARA microfilm publication M233 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 10; FHL microfilm 350,316.

• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHGG-DW5 : 11 August 2017), David Price, Bond, Illinois, United States; citing 209, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 25; FHL microfilm 7,650.

• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHBJ-QZJ : 15 August 2017), David Price, Bond, Illinois, United States; citing p. 127, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 55; FHL microfilm 7,641.

• Find A Grave Memorial [2]