John Pryor Price

  General Notes:

The 1850 Federal Census for Virginia, Henry Co., records John P. (44-NC) and Mary A. E. (42-VA) Price with children Mary (18-NC), John (16-NC), Nancy (13-NC), Allen (11-NC), Hannah (10-NC), Sally (7-NC), and Robert (3-VA). John has real estate valued at $4,000. John owns 24 slaves.

The 1860 Federal Census for Virginia, Henry Co., Ridgeway records John P. (53-NC) and Mary (50-VA) Price with children John (25-NC), Thomas A. (21-NC), Annie (18-NC), Sally (15-NC), Robert (13-VA), and James (9-VA). John has real estate valued at $11,000 and personal property at $40,000. John is a "Tobacconist" and owns 35 slaves.

The 1870 Federal Census for Virginia, Henry Co., Horse Pasture P.O. records John P. (62-NC) and Mary E. (50-VA) Price with children Sallie M. (21-VA) and James M. (19-VA). John has real estate valued at $12,000 and personal property at $2,000. John is listed as a Merchant. There are a dozen or so black or mulatto individuals with the "Price" surname living next to John and Mary Price. These are most likely former slave families that took the "Price" family name after the Civil War and stayed on the land.

The 1880 Federal Census for Virginia, Henry Co., Ridgway, District 132 records John P. (73-NC) and Mary (71-VA) Price with daughter Sallie (30-VA) and grand daughter Mary (6-NC) Price.

John married Mary Ann Eliza. (Mary Ann Eliza was born circa 1808 in Virginia and died after 1880 in Ridgeway, Henry Co., Va..)