Letter Thanks to Donna Stepp Cox
The following is a letter from Rev. John
E. Cox, 722 Blackford Ave, Evansville, Ind.,
July 19, 1924. The envelope is postmarked the same day and same
city. Envelope addressed to Mrs. Reck Childers, Auxier, Kentucky.
Dear Mrs. Childers:
Accept my thanks for your kind letter. I at once wrote to the two Prices and hope to hear from them soon. Your letter came after half a dozen others. Got one from Pike County, one from Greenup County, one or two from Johnson County. These writers are all of the same tribe of Prices and all like you, think your Prices are the kinsmen I am looking for. Each of these referred me to some one whom they believed could give me information. I am (or will be soon) 74 years of age. My gr gr grandfather Thomas Price died in 1828. Of course I couldn't remember him. My great grandfather died in 1849, the year before I was born. But his wife Elizabeth Eaton Price (my great grandmother) died 1865 in her 83 year. I remember her well. My great grandparents were married in Kentucky about 1800, for my grandmother, their daughter, was born in 1804. John A. Price, a brother of William and youngest child of Thomas Price (as far as we know) was born in Kentucky in 1793. He was accidently killed by a railroad train in 1877, 74 years of age. I can remember him very well.
We know Thomas Price left at least four children in Kentucky, probably more. If we knew their names it would be an easy matter to trace them. They were older than John A. Price. These Prices come long lived. Now if I at 74 can remember Elizabeth and John A. who were Kentuckians, (If they lived in your locality) then you ought to have citizens old enough to remember some the children who remarried there; or least their children. Thomas, James and Richard were family names. So was George and William. Two of your people advised me to write to "Uncle George W. Price." This has been favorite name. I visited cousin George W. Price, yesterday, in this city. Elizabeth Eaton had a daughter named Elizabeth, who has a daughter in this city.
How I wish that I could visit your country and talk to you all about this family mystery, run down every trail, visit all the old cemeteries and examine the grave stones? There I would like to find my Gr. Grandmother's people, the Eatons, if possible. We know nothing whatever about them.
If you were anyway as old as I am you could remember a grandson of Thomas Price. The Richard Price who was with Thomas Price in what is now Russell County, and who was with him in Dunmore's war with the Indians, seemed to be a brother or son of Thomas Price, and I am almost convinced that he was a son. If so and he had a son Richard that one was probably your great grandfather. I hope we shall get all these family mysteries explained. I would like for Mr. Plummer to tell me all about his ancestor.
Yours Truly,
John E. Cox