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Price, William G. W. (1828-1914)
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The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, 
From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time
by Hu Maxwell
The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899

Pages 441-442

William G. W. Price, born 1828 near Belington, son of William
Price, was married in 1848 to Elizabeth England. Children, Israel,
James M., Cordelia, Eliza Jane, Francis M., Charlotte, Henry H.,
Lucretia. He is a member of the M. E. Church, in politics a
Republican, by occupation a shoemaker and resides above Belington;
was educated in the common schools, and was a soldier and officer
in the Civil War, beginning as a private and rising to lieutenant.
He belonged to Company F, Fifteenth W. Va. Infantry, and served
under Crook and Sheridan, in the Shenandoah Valley, in Kentucky and
Tennessee, taking part in sixteen engagements. His son, Henry H.,
was born in 1868, married in 1895 at Belington to Laura, daughter
of John England. Their child's name is Rhea Bernice. He is a
Methodist, a Junior O. U. A. M., and a Republican and by occupation
is a shoemaker and confectioner. He was educated in the public
schools. Among the battles in which Lieutenant Price took part were
the following: Cloyd Mountain, New River Bridge, Middle Brook,
Lynchburg, Snicker's Ferry, "Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar
Creek, and many others. He was under Generals Crook, Hunter and
Sheridan, and in 1864 his regiment lost 285 men. His brother,
Isaac, was in the same regiment, and lost both his arms, and one
and a half pounds of flesh shot from his thigh by the explosion of
a shell at Cedar Creek.

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From Death Register, Barbour County, WV 
(year 1914, page 183, Line Numbered 15
FULL-NAME: Wm. G. W. Price
DEATH-DATE: March 14, 1914 at age 85y-4m-20d
DEATH-PLACE: Belington, W.Va.
MARITAL-STATUS: Widower
CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Cerebral Hemorrhage
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