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Title	Betty Elizabeth Price letter, April 4, 1858
Subject	Families Correspondence Cookery
Description	Correspondence to Betty [Elizabeth] Price from Su[san Alice Price] Smith [sister]: mock apple pie recipe.
Date	1858-04-04
Collection	William F. Price Collection
Collection Identifer	A26, Box4, Folder15
Collection Link	http://library.sfasu.edu/findingaids/?p=collections/controlcard&id=374
Biographical Note	Elijah Price was born in Martin County, North Carolina on September 9, 1791. On December 11, 1821 he married Temperance ("Tempe") Thomas of Stantonsburg, North Carolina. They remained in North Carolina until 1830, at which time they moved to Lawrence County, Alabama. They also lived in Sumter County, where Price served as a State Representative in the Alabama Legislature. In 1841 the Price family moved to Texas, staying for a while in Polk (then Liberty) County, then later settling on a large plantation near San Augustine. Price was a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of Christ Episcopal Church. He died in San Augustine on November 17, 1852, leaving his widow to continue running the plantation until her death about 1859. There were ten children in the Price family, and the plantation was sold after Tempe died. (Price, William Hall and Mackenzie, Ann Price, Price Family Record, 1976; Crocket, G. L., Two Centuries in East Texas, Dallas: Southwest Press, 1932).
Scope and Content Note	Most of the collection consists of papers of Elijah and Temperence Price, but there are also papers relating to the Blount & Price mercantile business, George Fulton Crocket and his family, and S[tephen] W[illiam] Blount & Co., all of San Augustine. Crocket and Blount, along with Travis Gustavus Broocks and Mathew Cartwright, jointly operated a steam mill near San Augustine which appears to have had facilities for sawing lumber and grinding grain. The papers include correspondence; financial records relating to cotton; personal and business bills, accounts, and receipts; and legal papers. The bills and accounts give details about consumer purchases such as clothing, fabrics, food, household items, medical expenses, school books, and music. Letterheads on the business stationery are decorated with ships, lighthouses, and covered wagons. A genealogy including some of this line of the Price family is available in "Price Family Record" compiled by William Hall Price and Anne Price Mackenzie (1976). William F. Price was the grandson of Elijah and Tempe Price.
Associated Dates	1850-1859
Type	Correspondence
Repository	East Texas Research Center
Repository Link	http://library.sfasu.edu/etrc/
Rights	This item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is available for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the East Texas Research Center at asketrc@sfasu.edu.

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Title	Betty Elizabeth Price letter, April 4, 1858, page 1
Repository	East Texas Research Center
Repository Link	http://library.sfasu.edu/etrc/
Transcript	Henderson Texas April 4th/58 Dear Bet I received your kind letter a few days ago, and haveing (sic) nothing else to do this evening I concluded to write you a few lines, provided I don't get to Lazy to finish. There is no news here of interest. Minnie has been home and staid (sic) a week Josephus Ray has got the measels (sic) we will all have it. I am very sorry for I dread it. Jake continues to get worse, the dr says he can't cure him, he is a great deal of trouble it makes me very sorry to look at him he is swelled so bad. My garden is very poor Well Bet I believe I am getting almost to lazy to finish my letter Helen R. report says is to be married soon to Mr Fisk. I never see her now she has never been here since you left Bet you must excuse this short letter and write soon
Rights	This item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is available for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the East Texas Research Center at asketrc@sfasu.edu.

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