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Descendants of Thomas Price I

Generation No. 1

1. THOMAS¹ PRICE I was born 1754 in Wales, and died April 21, 1836 in Wesh Hills, Newark, Ohio. He married SARAH ANN POWELL 1780 in Wales.

Notes
Thomas Price was born in Wales (place unknown) in 1754 and died in Welsh Hills, near Newark, Ohio, April 21, 1836 -- "aged 82 years", says his tombstone in Welsh Hills cemetery. He was married to Sarah Ann Powell in 1780 in Wales. They were the parents of six known children who grew to maturity in Wales and whose names, birthdates and birth hours, written by Thomas' own hand, we have intact today, found by the writer in an old family bible of Hannah Williams Seville in Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, dated July 22, 1895

The earliest reference to him is one I discovered in an erasable pocket memorandum book, "Thomas Price, His Book 1795". The next citation is found in a church letter given to "Thomas Price and his wife, Sarah Price" by " The Church of Jesus Christ meeeting at Dolau in Rasbnorshire owning believers Baptism, laying on of hands, the doctrine of personal election and final perseverance" on "15 Day of May 1796" and signed with twelve names.
I visited that little baptist church in Dolau on June 5 and 7, 1901 and found the church minuts in bad shape, containing recent records only. I called on Richard Price, whose ancestors had lived there for three centuries, but found no light on our ancestors.

The next document which I found was in the form of a church letter, "The Church of Jesus Christ Denominated paticular Baptist Meeting for Divine Worship at Penryial Breconshire Soputh Wales, " given to " our Dear Brethren and Sister Thomas Price and Sarah his wife, John Price and Edward Price their sons" on " 6 May 1821; signed by "Edward Davies Minister" and ten brothers, "part for the whole."

I visited this little Baptist Churchhouse Sept. 6,1907, about five miles northeast of Hay, Breconshire, on the top of a hill. I got the key from the clerk and saw the inside of it and took a picture of it. A stone tablet over the entrance reads:

              The memoir of
              TWO HUNDRED AND
              FORTY POUNDS of the
              Pious Donation of Thomas
              Williams of the Island, GENT
              in the Parish of Llanigon;
              and County of Brecon, to and For the Use
              and Benefit of this Pen-yr-heal
              Church forever

              Ibi. Sept. Ye 1st
               1788

Apparently Thomas Pice had moved from Dolau, Radnorshire, to Hay in 1796 and lived there with his family twenty-five years. He and his sons were weavers and probably worked in the large woolen mill at Hay. I saw, in 1907, the wreckage of an old mill at Hay which old Citizens said was that of an ancient woolen mill. I saw may Prices about Hay, such as Thomas Price, 84 years old, a deacon of that little church on the hill, on the Llwyfilly; the Sheriff of Hay, and many others -- but no traces of kinship, except possibly the name.

In February, 1900, Father, Thomas D. Price wrote down some facts about his grandparents; among them he says, "Thomas Price and wife, two sons, John and Edward and two daughters Mary and Elizabeth, came over in a sail-ship about two months on voyage landing at Baltimore, Maryland. Came from there to Steubenbille, Ohio. Worked there for two years in woolen factory on Dickinson and Wells, who had a flock of Spanish Merino sheep and manufactured the wool into cloth. Grandmother Price died while there and was buried in the cemetery. I visited Steubenville, April 1, 1928, but found no trces of their stay. Old cemeteries had beenremoved out of the city to a new cemetery in 1885, and the remains in unmarked graves were interred in a large lot apart for theat purpose. Wells and Dickinson's Woolen Mill was dominant there between 1820 and 1830.

This writer, Harvey E. Price, visited Steubenville, Ohio, on May 2, 1985 and found these records in the Union Cemetery of Steubenville, Ohio.        INTERNMENT RECORDS - REMOVAL RECORDS BOOK 36906 Price, Ann age 68 at time fo death. Re-internment date 3-17-1897. The caretaker stated that her body had been removed from the old cemetery downtown to make room for a new school. Her grave is unmarked and he didn't know just where she was buried in the Union Cemetery.

"They moved from there to the Welsh Hills" in 1823. Bought the Price farm of 87 acres on the Hills from S. Turner, then about four acres were partly cleard. Put up a log house and frame barn - then put a renter with a lease on the farm, and they moved to a woolen factory owned by Page, one east of Granville. In the meantime, Edward Price married Mary Pittsford and Elizabeth Price married Edward Glynn; Edward Prcie living on the Welsh Hills farm for a time, until after Thomas Price living on the eldest son, was born, May 19 1826.

While the family of Thomas Price lived near the Page factory , they attended church services in the Granville Baptist Church, "going across lots by thge Granville furnace and over the lot now the Maple Grove Cemetery." In the fall of 1830 the family moved back on the farm.

During their absence many improvements had been made on the Hills. The stone school - house had been put up in 1821 by suvscription, for both school and church at several places, where the church now stands (1936) and at Phillips' graveyard about a half mile west of the Welsh Hills Church. The Ohio canal and the national turnpike were in course construction, and these improvements brought considerable money into the state and into circulation.

Trade was, however, carried on mainly by the exchanging of commodities. Most things needed on the farm or in the home were bought by rolls of cloth made in the woolen factories where the Prices worked. Indeed, their wages were rolls or bolts of cloth of several varieties. When they to town to purchase lumber, nails, glass, sugar or shoes, a bolt of cloth paid the bill. Very little money was in circulation.

Father said, "Grandfather Price was active, alert and possessed use of all his faculties to the last. He passed on in his sleep on April 21, 1836, in the 82nd year of his life." He is buried in the Welsh Hills Cemetery in the midst of members of his immediate family.

He enjoed the last fifteen years of his life in the new land of opportunity -- having left his beloved Wales in his 66th year after men in these days are supposed to retire from the activities of business to make the history of this country, follow in the pages of this humble narrative.

AP Ira Price

From Harvey Prices Notes

Place of birth is unknown. Death was on the farm between Newark and Granville, Ohio. Sarah Ann and Thomas I were parents of six children who grew to maturity in Wales. Names, birth dates, and birth hours were hand written by Thomas I in the old family Bible of Hannah Williams Seville in Allegheny City , Pennsylvania, dated July 1795. Earliest reference to him is one Ira found in an erasable pocket memorandum book, "Thomas Price, his book 1795".

Ira next found in a church letter given to "Thomas Price and his wife Sarah Price" by "The Church of Jesus Christ meeting at Dolau in Radnorshire owing believers baptism, laying on of hands, the doctrine of personal election and final perserverance" on "15 day of May 1796" and signed with 12 names. Ira visited that little church in Dolau church on June 5 and &, 1901. Church minutes were in bad shape. Visited Richard P. Rice whose ancestors had lived there for 3 generations.

Moved from Dolau, Radnorshire to Hay in 1796. Lived there for 25 years. He and sons were weavers. Came to USA in a sailing ship about 2 months of voyage. Landing at Baltimore, Maryland from there to Steubenville, Ohio. Worked for 2 years in a woolen factory (Dickinson and Wells) who had Spanish Merino sheep and manufactured wool into cloth. Sarah died while there and is buried there. Moved to Welsh Hills 1823. Bought Price far (87 acres) from S. Turner. Buried Welsh Hill Cemetery.

       Children of Thomas Price and Sarah Powell are:

2.	i.	THOMAS² PRICE II, b. July 4, 1782, Wales Lake, Bala Wenallt, Wales; d. September 7, 1849, Welsh Hills, Newark, Ohio.
3.	ii.	SARAH PRICE, b. 1785; d. 1867.
4.	iii.	MARY PRICE, b. 1788; d. 1849.
5.	iv.	ELIZABETH PRICE, b. 1791; d. 1885.
6.	v.	JOHN JOSEPH PRICE, b. December 2, 1794, Wales; d. July 12, 1868.
7.	vi.	EDWARD PRICE, b. July 17, 1797, Newton, Wales; d. December 26, 1878, Welsh Hills, Licking County, Ohio.

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