This person is not on ARDREW, so please reply directly to [email protected] >Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:52:14 -0800 >From: "Paul & Fredreica Speyer" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> >Subject: {not a subscriber} STANFORD and PRICE families of Drew and >Jefferson Counties - Ark > >I need a geography lesson to track down my STANFORD and PRICE >families... > >My ancestor, John R. STANFORD married Catherine Henrietta (or >Henrietta Catherine) PRICE on 28 March 1849 in Drew, Arkansas. > >According to the 1860 Census for Marengo County, Alabama, John R. >STANFORD was 39 years of age and born in Ark. He was a physician. >Catherine Henrietta PRICE died 14 Oct. 1856 in Shiloh Township, >Marengo County, Alabama. > >There is a John R. STANFORD living in Monroe County, AR in 1836, >according to the Arkansas Territory Tax List. This is from an >ancestry.com list. I don't know how to view the original or what >information might be on it. > >On the 1850 Census for Jefferson County, AR there is a John STANFORD >and a R.U. STANFORD living in Pine Bluff. > >On the 1850 Census for Drew County, AR there are 3 Isaac D. PRICE >listed. Henrietta PRICE had a brother named Isaac PRICE and their >father was named Isaac PRICE. Their mother Mary FOSTER died about 1864 >in Ark. > >On the 1860 Census for Jefferson County, AR, there are two Issac PRICE >listed. > >Other PRICE family members in Arkansas between 1850 and 1880 are >Josiah Reese PRICE, John Foster PRICE, Milton Josephus or Joseph PRICE >and Richard PRICE. > >I find Josiah Reese PRICE as Josiah, Reese, Reece, J. Reese, and Reese >J. Either there are several men with this name or he lived in Vanburen >Township, Crawford Co.; Union Township, St. Francis Co.,; Augusta >Township, Woodruff C., AR. > >Josiah Reese PRICE recorded land through the Fayetteville Land Office, >as did Richard PRICE. > >Richard PRICE also recorded land through the Camden Land Office, as >did Isaac PRICE. > >John PRICE also recorded land through both offices, but I have no idea >which one(s) migh be a member of my PRICE family. > >I can find little information on Milton J. PRICE, except that he >served in the 9th Arkansas Infantry in Company I. I don't know from >which county that company mustered up from. > >I have a box of letters (crumbling) dated from the 1860's when my >ancestor was in school at Salem Academy in Winston Salem, NC (from her >father, John R. Stanford to Mary Wallace Stanford) until the early >1900's. > > >From Wittsberg Ark Nov 3 1871 from Uncle J.F. PRICE to Wallace - >Milton died, Uncle Reese is in the store, Aunt Lee and Aunt Jane. > > >From M.J. Price to niece Wallace - Sister Lee, poor little Juan, >Aunt >Lou's in Mar of 1864, Aunt Jane and the children, Sulpher Springs, >Uncle John and his 2 boys and daughter Mallie. > > >From Uncle Dick to Wallace (letter on stationery from Circuit Court, >Jefferson County, Pine Bluff, Ark) dated in the 1880's - Hall has >epilepsy, Mitchell or Mitchum (?), Sallie has baby. > > >From Uncle Dick at Price Bluff, Ark Dec 1880 to Wallace - Mitchum has >bought place in Little Rock, Uncle Jim and Neely. > >If anybody can help me to trace this family, especially the STANFORD >line, by telling me where these places are in relation to one another, >I would greatly appreciate it. >Thanks so much! Fredreica >[email protected]