Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Price, John Lloyd 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

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JOHN LLOYD PRICE
	The gentleman whose name heads this article was a native of the Blue 
Grass state, and when scarcely out of his swaddling clothes was taken by his 
parents to Missouri, where he grew to manhood, acquiring a good education in 
the common schools.  In 1864 he traveled across the plains with ox teams to 
the Willamette valley, settling near McMinnville, and operating there as an 
agriculturist until 1873.  At this date he came to this county and bought a 
settler’s right to a quarter-section which he homesteaded and straightway set 
to work to improve. Here he remained until 1881, near Weston, and then made a 
trip to the old home place in Missouri, remaining one year and a half, and 
then returned permanently to this county. He was occupied continuously in 
farming during his stay in the county and his record in husbandry is among the 
best.
	In fraternal relations he was with the Grange, and his church 
membership was in the Methodist church, South, where he was an ardent worker 
and true supporter of the cause of Christianity, showing by his consistent and 
faithful life, as well as by his Godly words, the reality of the faith that he 
espoused.  On July 17, 1895, he was called to the rewards awaiting him in 
another world, leaving a wife and six children and a wide circle of friends to 
mourn his departure. As of one of old, so of him it might be said: “I have 
fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith, 
henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, 
the righteous judge, will give me at that day.”
	Miss Mary E. Turner, daughter of James D. and Amanda (Ensign) Turner, 
became the wife of John L. Price on October 18, 1866, and the following 
children were born to them: Thomas L., Walter D., Hettie E., Ernest, Amanda, 
Roy, who are living, and two others, Jams and Sarah, who are dead.
	Mrs. Price lives on the old home place, two miles west from Adams, 
where she has a good two-story residence and a fine farm, embellished with all 
necessary and substantial improvements. Although bereft of her companion in 
the golden time of life, she continues to fight nobly the battles of the world 
and exemplifies that real Christian life, the best heritage to those who call 
her mother.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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