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Sarah F. Harris Price

Birth
Death
12 Aug 1825 (aged 99–100)
Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Pocahontas, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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1934 listing for Applecreek:
Consort of R Titus Price with a note that the stone was effaced (no birth or death dates given)

1939 Rev Gammon listing states
Sarah F Price wife of Rhees died Aug 12 1825
100 years old

Another listing: 160 Cemeteries of Cape County:
Sarah F Price wife of Rhees died Aug 1825 age 100 years

She had a tombstone in 1934 and 1939, but vandals may have destroyed it in the 1940s because her stone is gone, there is no way to find her gravesite.
Church records say her maiden name was Harris
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It appears she had no descendants.

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Will Record Book A Cape Girardeau Co page 333
Will # 267
State of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County
Jan 2, 1818

In the name of God Amen, I Sarah Price of the county and state aforesaid being weak in body and far advanced in life though sound in mind calling to recollection the mortality of my body and that it is appointed for all men once to die, I commend my soul to almighty God who gave it to my body to the dust to be buried at the discretion of my Executors here after appointed and concerning my worldly property I dispose of in the following manner;

Item: I give and bequeath to my trusty Friend and relation Elijah Harris the plantation I now live on with all the Farming utensils also I order it is my will that my friend Elijah Harris have the following negroes vis: Joseph and Mark being men also Kitt and Milly and a boy called Moses to be his and his heirs forever.

Item: I give and bequeath to Hannah Harris my neice The follwoing Negroes (viz;) Ephraim being a man (Fanny Ruth and Nicey being woman, to be hers and her heirs forever.

Item: I give and bequeath to my niece Sophina Harris a negro boy named Adam and a negro woman named Anny and her three children to be hers and her heirs forever.

Item: I also in addition to the before mentioned bequeathment give and bequeath to my said friend Elijah Harris all my stock of horses all my stock of black cattle, with all my hogs and sheep also my household and kitchen furniture every part and parcel thereof to be his and his heirs forever.

And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my true and trusty friend Elijah Harris Executor to execute this my last will and testament, Hereby revoking and annulling and making void all former wills and testaments by me made ratifying this and none else to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal. The date above written in the presence of Jno Harris and Thomas Barnett. Sarah Price (her mark)

State of Missouri County of Cape Girardeau
I do solemnly swear that Sarah Price now deceased did on the day which is written made her mark to and publish the written as her last will and testament. That she was of sound and disposing mind: That I subscribed my name thereto hereto in the presence of said testa will and at her request and in the presence of Thomas Barnett the other subscribing withness sworn to and subscribed Jno Harris in open court Dec 13 1828
C S Thomas D. Clerk Co. Court
Recorded according to law
Dec 15th 1828
C. S. Thomas
D. Clerk of the County Court

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The name "Price" derives from the Welsh "Ap-Rees," "Ap" meaning "son of" or "descended from." The families came from Wales in the 1600s. Price was sometimes spelled Prees. Rees Price is a common name found in PA and Ohio.
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1934 listing for Applecreek:
Consort of R Titus Price with a note that the stone was effaced (no birth or death dates given)

1939 Rev Gammon listing states
Sarah F Price wife of Rhees died Aug 12 1825
100 years old

Another listing: 160 Cemeteries of Cape County:
Sarah F Price wife of Rhees died Aug 1825 age 100 years

She had a tombstone in 1934 and 1939, but vandals may have destroyed it in the 1940s because her stone is gone, there is no way to find her gravesite.
Church records say her maiden name was Harris
****
It appears she had no descendants.

****
Will Record Book A Cape Girardeau Co page 333
Will # 267
State of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County
Jan 2, 1818

In the name of God Amen, I Sarah Price of the county and state aforesaid being weak in body and far advanced in life though sound in mind calling to recollection the mortality of my body and that it is appointed for all men once to die, I commend my soul to almighty God who gave it to my body to the dust to be buried at the discretion of my Executors here after appointed and concerning my worldly property I dispose of in the following manner;

Item: I give and bequeath to my trusty Friend and relation Elijah Harris the plantation I now live on with all the Farming utensils also I order it is my will that my friend Elijah Harris have the following negroes vis: Joseph and Mark being men also Kitt and Milly and a boy called Moses to be his and his heirs forever.

Item: I give and bequeath to Hannah Harris my neice The follwoing Negroes (viz;) Ephraim being a man (Fanny Ruth and Nicey being woman, to be hers and her heirs forever.

Item: I give and bequeath to my niece Sophina Harris a negro boy named Adam and a negro woman named Anny and her three children to be hers and her heirs forever.

Item: I also in addition to the before mentioned bequeathment give and bequeath to my said friend Elijah Harris all my stock of horses all my stock of black cattle, with all my hogs and sheep also my household and kitchen furniture every part and parcel thereof to be his and his heirs forever.

And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my true and trusty friend Elijah Harris Executor to execute this my last will and testament, Hereby revoking and annulling and making void all former wills and testaments by me made ratifying this and none else to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal. The date above written in the presence of Jno Harris and Thomas Barnett. Sarah Price (her mark)

State of Missouri County of Cape Girardeau
I do solemnly swear that Sarah Price now deceased did on the day which is written made her mark to and publish the written as her last will and testament. That she was of sound and disposing mind: That I subscribed my name thereto hereto in the presence of said testa will and at her request and in the presence of Thomas Barnett the other subscribing withness sworn to and subscribed Jno Harris in open court Dec 13 1828
C S Thomas D. Clerk Co. Court
Recorded according to law
Dec 15th 1828
C. S. Thomas
D. Clerk of the County Court

*****
The name "Price" derives from the Welsh "Ap-Rees," "Ap" meaning "son of" or "descended from." The families came from Wales in the 1600s. Price was sometimes spelled Prees. Rees Price is a common name found in PA and Ohio.
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Inscription

w/o Rhees
aged 100y


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