St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Price, Sr., Thomas Edward October 22, 1910
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St. Landry Clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, October 29, 1910, Image 1

THE SUDDEN PASSING AWAY OF AN OLD NEWSPAPER MAN

T. E. Price, Late Manager of the Opelousas Courier, Has Gone to Meet His Maker.

Thomas Edward Price, aged 53 years, 3 months and 18 days, died suddenly at his 
residence in Opelousas at 2:30 o'clock Saturday morning, October 22d, 1910.

His death was unexpected. He went home at his usual time, early in the evening, 
ate supper, and said he felt well. At about 2:15 in the morning his wife heard 
him groan, and going to him, found him unconscious. Mrs. Price called their son 
Richard, and he took charge of the limp (and no doubt lifeless) body, while she 
awoke the neighbors and called for Dr. B. A. Littell, who lives near by.

"I believe he is dead," said Richard, as the physician entered. An examination 
verified the fact that the soul of T. E. Price, one of the oldest newspaper men 
of the State, had gone to rest.

Mr. Price had been ill health for sometime, but lately he said he felt better, 
and intended to go "drumming" for a printing house shortly. He thought that 
would do him good.

"Price the Printer," as he was familiarly called throughout Louisiana ad 
Arkansas, was a writer as weil (sic) as a practical printer, and held several 
editorial positions.

The remains were enterred (sic) in the Catholic cemetery Saturday evening at 
five o'clock, after the solemnization of the funeral rites in the Church.

Mr. Price came here early in 1909, and assumed the position of city editor of 
the Opelousas Courier. After the death of the paper's owner, Col. Leonce 
Sandoz, Mr. Price became both city editor and business manager. He continued 
filling these two positions until a few weeks ago, when his failing health 
compelled him to retire from the business temporarily. He was succeeded by 
Henry Temple, who died suddenly in New Orleans just a few days ago. Col. Sandoz 
also died suddenly, making three business managers of the Courier to be called 
away from earth without warning, within a year.

Deceased leaves a wife and two sons, the youngest, Richard, being an employer 
of the Courier.

He was a conscientious, Christian man, a devoted husband and a good father. The 
surviving ones have the sympathy of the entire community.

Mr. Price was born in Norcross, Georgia, in the year 1857, and his parents died 
when he was quite young.

He went to Shreveport, La., in the year 1874, where he worked on the Sunday 
Herald, and the Times. In 1879 he married Miss Katie Hodgings, of Shreveport, 
and embarked in business for himself in 1882, continuing until 1884, when he 
and Captain B. C. White established a paper called the Sunday Chief.

In 1889 he went to New Lewisville, Arkansas, and started a paper there, calling 
it the La Fayette Recorder.

In 1894 he went to Camden, Arkansas, and bought out the Camden Herald. He ran 
that paper for a while, and later sold it, and went out as State Organizer for 
the Red Men of Arkansas. He returned to Louisiana in 1897, and at Shreveport he 
was made State Organizer for the Red Men.

He went to Lake Charles in 1898 and organized a Red Men's lodge there, and also 
at Crowley and Jennings, and subsequently became City editor for the Lake 
Charles Press, and correspondent and solicitor for the Picayuee. Then he 
started a paper called the Lake Charles News. The publishers were Price, Gray 
and Cline. He finally sold out and went to Pascagoula, Miss., and worked on the 
Democrat Star, and from there moved to New Orleans in 1906, and started a job 
office, when his health failed him.


Additional Comments:

NOTE: Thomas Edward Price, Sr. is buried at Saint Landry Catholic Church 
located in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.

www.findagrave.com memorial # 103371540

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