Martha Head Price
Born: May 2, 1810
Birthplace: Orange County, Virginia
Father: John Head Sr. 1765 – 1852
(Buried: Head Family Cemetery, Randolph County, Missouri)
Mother: Nancy Ann Sanford 1771 – 1846
(Buried: Head Family Cemetery, Randolph County, Missouri)
Husband: Major General Sterling Price 1809 – 1867
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri)
Married: May 14, 1833 in Randolph County, Missouri
Children:
Brig. General Edwin Williamson Price 1834 – 1908
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri)
Colonel Celsus Price 1841 – 1909
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri)
Heber Price 1844 – 1868
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri)
Martha Sterling “Stella” Price Willis 1846 – 1912
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis Missouri)
Quintus Price 1851 – 1943
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri)
Athol Price 1856 – 1860
(Buried: Price – Allin Cemetery, Brunswick, Missouri)
Life Events before War:
1830: Emigrated with her family to Missouri from Orange County, Virginia
1833: Married her husband Sterling Price in Randolph County, Missouri
Lived with her family on a farm south of Keytesville, Missouri
1834: Birth of her son Edwin Williamson Price
1836 – 1838: Her husband served as a Missouri State Representative
1841: Birth of her son Celsus Price
1844: Birth of her son Heber Price
1845: Death of her sister Harriet Amanda Head Rucker
1845: Death of her brother Waller Head
1845 – 1846: Her husband was a United States Congressman.
1846: Birth of her daughter Martha Sterling Price Willis
1846: Death of her mother Nancy Ann Sanford Head
1846 – 1848: Her husband Served in Mexican War, rising to Brig. General
1851: Birth of her son Quintus Price.
1852: Death of her father John Head
1853 – 1857: First Lady for the State of Missouri
1856: Birth of her son Athol Price.
1857 – 1861: Her husband was Missouri State Bank Commissioner.
1860: Death of her son Athol Price.
Civil War Life Events:
1862 – 1865: Her husband was Major General in the Confederate Army.
Life Events after War:
1867: Death of her husband Major General Sterling Price.
1867 – 1870: Widow of Major General Sterling Price.
1868: Death of her son Heber Price.
Died: March 5, 1870
Place of Death: Saint Louis, Missouri
Cause of Death: Pneumonia
Age at time of Death: 59 years old
Burial Place: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri
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