John William Price, son of John Price and Margaret Edwards was
born on March 9, 1852, in Priory Main, Pembrokeshire,
Wales.
When he was 4 years of age, he came to this country with his parents and two
year old brother Joseph aboard the sailing ship Samuel Curling.
Joseph died and was buried at sea one day before landing on shore.
In the United States, the Price family traveled by
cattle cars on the railroad to Iowa
City, Iowa. They
joined the 5th Handcart Company along with the Hunt Wagon Train, where they
traveled by covered wagon drawn by oxen to Salt Lake Valley and later settled
in Ogden, Utah.
They lived under very trying circumstances and later moved to Willard, Utah,
in 1866, where his mother died giving birth to a baby that lived. John was 14
years of age at that time.
In 1867 his father moved his family to Malad, Idaho.
His father died 17 years later, leaving him to take care of the family as he
had done for many years before because of ill health of his father.
He married Sarah Millie Richardson, the daughter of Josiah and
Sarah Ann Richardson, on her 17th birthday, March 22, 1883, in the Salt Lake
Temple. To this marriage
10 children were born, 5 boys and 5 girls.
As a young
man, he freighted on the Montana
road, and worked hard to support his family. They bought a farm at Deep Creek,
(a farming territory a few miles from Malad) and
farmed there until his death on October 1, 1909, at the age of 57. He was buried in the Malad Cemetery.
SARAH MILLIE
RICHARDSON
Sarah
Millie Richardson daughter of Josiah Richardson and Sarah Ann Knight was born
March 22, 1866, in Ogden Valley,
Utah.
When she was a small girl, her family moved from Ogden
to Slatterville, where they resided for a short time,
then moved to Plain City, Utah, where they stayed for several years.
Her father raised sugar cane and made molasses. Sarah Millie started school here,
but later the family moved to East Portage (Washakie, Utah)
where they lived for two years and ran a dairy where she helped milk cows. When
she was 15 years old, they came to Malad Valley,
settling in Deep Creek. There they ran a dairy and made cheese.
Her mother
had 16 children. While they were in Plain
City, three of her
sisters and two brothers died . Her twin sisters, age
3, died one week apart.
The names of her brothers and sisters are:
Josiah, Millie, George, Edgar, Louise, John, Mary Bell, Ada, Ida, Howard, Alberdine, Ester Ann, Ruth, Ebb, Lola and Oscar. Her father
married Catherine Price to whom three children were born: Jedd,
Sylvester and Margaret. Millie's mother raised these three children and a
grandchild, Annie Rawson.
Sarah was
married on March 22, 1883, when she was 17 years of age to John W. Price, the
son of John Price and Margaret Edwards. They had ten children, five boys and
five girls. After the death of her husband, October 1,1909,
she sold the ranch to her sons and moved to Malad City, Idaho,
to make her home because of poor health. She was in a wheelchair for 26 years
and
lived with her daughters. She passed her time by embroidering, reading, crocheting,
and other kinds of handwork.
She was a very
religious woman although she was unable to go to church. She paid her church
dues and read many church books. She taught all her granddaughters how to
crochet and embroidery. She had a very cheerful disposition, never complaining
and happy although she was crippled, due to rheumatism. At the time of her
death, she still had beautiful black hair.
She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Thomas M. Hughes (Margaret) in Pleasantview, Oneida, Idaho, on Thursday,
July 2, 1942, and was buried July 5, 1942, in the Malad Cemetery by the side of her husband.
Submitted by: Wanda
Jones Edwards
