Betty Price was the 5th child and youngest daughter of Thomas Watson Price, Sr. and
Leary Mae Strickland Price. There are very few stories about her, only that she
was beloved by all. Along with her younger brother Emory, she contracted pneumonia
when she was 5 years old, and passed away shortly thereafter. About 10 years ago (2002)
I was given a scrap of yellowed silk by Opal Purvis. She told me her mother had
made Betty's burial dress, and this was a scrap of the fabric. It is all I have of
Aunt Betty. The family could not afford a headstone, so they mixed together local
materials to make a marker (which has since been replaced by her sister Ladelle) and
decorated it with seashells, and wrote in her information using a stick. In the
morning when the family came back to see how the marker was setting up, they discovered
that racoons had come in the night and stolen most of the seashells.
Leary Mae Strickland Price. There are very few stories about her, only that she
was beloved by all. Along with her younger brother Emory, she contracted pneumonia
when she was 5 years old, and passed away shortly thereafter. About 10 years ago (2002)
I was given a scrap of yellowed silk by Opal Purvis. She told me her mother had
made Betty's burial dress, and this was a scrap of the fabric. It is all I have of
Aunt Betty. The family could not afford a headstone, so they mixed together local
materials to make a marker (which has since been replaced by her sister Ladelle) and
decorated it with seashells, and wrote in her information using a stick. In the
morning when the family came back to see how the marker was setting up, they discovered
that racoons had come in the night and stolen most of the seashells.
Betty Price was the 5th child and youngest daughter of Thomas Watson Price, Sr. and
Leary Mae Strickland Price. There are very few stories about her, only that she
was beloved by all. Along with her younger brother Emory, she contracted pneumonia
when she was 5 years old, and passed away shortly thereafter. About 10 years ago (2002)
I was given a scrap of yellowed silk by Opal Purvis. She told me her mother had
made Betty's burial dress, and this was a scrap of the fabric. It is all I have of
Aunt Betty. The family could not afford a headstone, so they mixed together local
materials to make a marker (which has since been replaced by her sister Ladelle) and
decorated it with seashells, and wrote in her information using a stick. In the
morning when the family came back to see how the marker was setting up, they discovered
that racoons had come in the night and stolen most of the seashells.
Leary Mae Strickland Price. There are very few stories about her, only that she
was beloved by all. Along with her younger brother Emory, she contracted pneumonia
when she was 5 years old, and passed away shortly thereafter. About 10 years ago (2002)
I was given a scrap of yellowed silk by Opal Purvis. She told me her mother had
made Betty's burial dress, and this was a scrap of the fabric. It is all I have of
Aunt Betty. The family could not afford a headstone, so they mixed together local
materials to make a marker (which has since been replaced by her sister Ladelle) and
decorated it with seashells, and wrote in her information using a stick. In the
morning when the family came back to see how the marker was setting up, they discovered
that racoons had come in the night and stolen most of the seashells.
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