Samuel Woodson Price

Birth Date

1828-08-05

Death Date

1918-01-22

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Lexington, Kentucky, artist and soldier. Nicholasville, Kentucky native. Son of Daniel Branch Price and Elizabeth Crockett Price. Married to Mary Frances Thompson Price in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on May 26, 1853. Father of Sallie T. Price, M. B. Price, and Robert Price. Artist in Lexington in 1850. Portrait painter in Lexington in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 21st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from October 31, 1861, to December 9, 1865. Brevetted brigadier general on March 13, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, District 2, p. 203B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, 3rd Ward, p. 559.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, District 1, p. 456B.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 218A.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0342.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819597, p. 256.
Missouri, U.S., St. Louis Public Library Obituary Index, 1880-2011, St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri, File 2792.
"Samuel Woodson Price (1828-1918)," Find A Grave, Memorial 7870417, accessed January 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7870417.

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