Sterling Price
Born: September 20, 1809
Birth Place: Prince Edward County, Virginia
Father: Pugh Price 1783 – 1857
Mother: Elizabeth Williamson
Wife: Martha Head 1810 – 1871
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, 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)
Education:
1826 – 1827: Attended Hampden – Sydney College
Occupation before War:
Hotel and Mercantile Businessman in Keytesville, Missouri
1836 – 1838: Missouri State Representative
1840 – 1843: Speaker of Missouri State House of Representatives
1845 – 1846: United States Representative from Missouri
1846 – 1848: Served in the Mexican War rising to Brigadier General
Slave Owner, and Tobacco Farmer, Bowling Green, Missouri
1853 – 1857: Governor of Missouri
1857 – 1861: Missouri State Bank Commissioner
Civil War Career:
1861: President of Missouri State Secession Convention
1861: Major General of Missouri State Guard Militia
1861: Led the Missouri state guard during Battle of Wilson's Creek
1862 – 1865: Major General in the Confederate Army, Infantry
1862: Participated in the Battle of Pea Ridge
1864 – 1865: Lead the Price Missouri Raid
Occupation after War:
1865: Went to Mexico instead of surrendering
1865: Unsuccessfully sought service with Emperor Maxmillian
Leader of Unsuccessful Confederate Exile Colony in Veracruz
Died: September 29, 1867
Place of Death: St. Louis, Missouri
Age at time of Death: 58 years old
Cause of Death: Cholera
Burial Place: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri
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