Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Price, J. H. October 18 1832 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    J. H. PRICE, an old pioneer of Calhoun county, was born in Sevier county,
Tenn., October 18, 1832, a son of James and Sarah (Shields) Price, natives of
South Caorlina. The father was a son of William and Mary Price. The grandfather
was a native of Ireland, and came to America in the latter part of the
eighteenth century. James Price was in the war of 1812, and moved to Tennessee
with his father in 1818. Mrs. Sarah Price was daughter of Medy and Mary Shields.
The father of Medy Shields was a native of Scotland and came to America during
the Revolutionary war and was at Braddock's defeat. J. H. Price came with his
parents to Alabama in November, 1832. They first settled at Jacksonville, on an
Indian reservation, which they improved, but which was afterward taken from them
by a land company, and then they entered land on Ohatchee creek, where James
Price remained until 1858, when he bought the land where Piedmont now stands,
and lived to be one of the leading citizens of the county. J. H. Price was
reared on the farm - a vocation he had always followed excepting four years that
he worked at carpentering. He attended school but three months in his life, but
through the avenues of books and papers he is well posted on subjects of general
interest. In 1861 he was married to Mary M. Garrett, daughter of Edward and
Millie Putman) Garrett, natives of South Carolina. In 1861 he enlisted in
company E, Capt. Magby, Thirtieth Alabama regiment, under Gen. E. W. Pettus, and
served until the end of the war. He was wounded at Kenesaw Mountain, but was
with Gen. Joe E. Johnston in his wonderful retreat. After the war he returned to
Calhoun county, and has followed farming since that time, but serving as coroner
four years. He is a member of the Masonic order and he and wife are members of
the Baptist church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 612-613

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