Sunday, April 19, 2020

A. R. Price (1833 - 1925)

A. R. Price, aged 91, one of the oldest residents of the Bald Eagle Valley, died Saturday at his home in Hannah, of injures received on December 12, when struck by a fast train and hurled a distance of eighteen feet.

Mr. Price was born October 10, 1833, a son of Sylvester and Mary Price, and was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca McGrady, who preceded him to the grave 25 years ago.

He is survived by the following children:

+ Thomas L. Price, of Bellwood,
+ John F., of Coalport,
+ Miss Cora Anna Price, of Altoona,
+ Mrs. Amanda Moran Slusher, of Bowden, Pa.
+ Mrs. Leona Walk of Hannah, Pa.
+ W. W., of Hannah, Pa.,
+ Mrs. Lilian Bathurst, of Bellwood,
+ Sidney Price, of Hannah,
+ Mrs. Blanche Reese, of Julian,
+ and Jesse Price, of Blue Bell, Pa.

Fifty-nine grandchildren and 79 great-grandchildren also survive.

He was a member of the Methodist Church of Hannah, where funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.  Interment was made in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Source:  Altoona Tribune, February 4, 1925
Note:  A. R. Price was the father of Leona May (Price) Walk, who was my great grandfather's mother.  So A. R. Price would be one of my great-great-great-grandfather.

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