Sketch of Mike Price, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Mike Price, a German, settled in St. Charles County at a very early
date.  He married Nancy Weldon, and they had: William B., John, Ab-
salom, Miletus, George and Allen.  William B., married and had but
one child, a daughter, who married an Irishman named Tim Sweeney. 
Rev. Thomas Watson performed the ceremony, as as soon as he was done,
Tim pulled out his pocket book and paid the fee, before he had even
seated his bride.  He had provided a jug of good whisky, which he
left on the outside, and the marriage fee having been satisfactorily
arranged, Tim invited the parson out to take a drink, which he, of
course, declined.  Tim went home that night without his bride, and
came back after her the next day.  In about twenty years they had
twelve children, and Tim surprised the district school master one
morning by presenting himself at the door of the school house with
nine of them to be placed under his charge.  He said he would have
brought three more, but their mother hadn't finished their clothes.
They were promptly on hand next morning, and increased the number of
pupils to respectable proportions.	

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