WELCOME! to Price Family
Gathering.
My name is Glenda Smith and I
am the 2nd Great Granddaughter of Richard Price and Elizabeth
Vanhoose who from 1820 thru 1880, maintained their homestead
along Natts Creek in Lawrence County Kentucky.
The parentage of our Richard is not known, however; the facts
that I have gathered, along with information from other family
researchers leads to the almost certainty that our Richard Price
was indeed a descendant of Thomas Price.
This site has been created as
a way to organize my 15 years of research and reduce the mounds
of my paper trail. More important, to share information related
to our Price and extended families of Eastern Kentucky and Virginia.
Your contributions to this site are welcome and greatly appreciated
by all Price Family researchers. Please visit often as new information
continues to be added.
My Ancestors: (9 generations) Price, VanHoose,
Porter, Robinett, Marcum, Chapman, McDonald, and Blevins are
my present focus surnames.
Note: There are several Price Branch's located
in the same areas. It is important to varify these records for
proof of kinship. The objective of this site is to connect those
branches that connect to the Richard Price and Elizabeth Vanhoose
line.
The information I publish comes
out of great depths to present the facts, however; errors may
appear. Your comments or corrections are always welcome.
Richard Llewellyn expressed this truth
most poignantly in his classic,
"How Green Was My Valley"
Courage came to me from me height
of the mountain, and with it came the dignity of manhood, and
knowledge of The Tree of Life, for now I was a branch, running
with the vital blood, waiting in the darkness of the Garden for
some unknown Eve to tempt me with the apple of beauty, that we
might know our nakedness, and bring forth sons and daughters
to magnify the Lord our God.
I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who
are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father,
and all our fathers, and in front, to see my son, and his son,
and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes. As
I felt, so they had felt, and were to feel, as then, so now,
as tomorrow and forever.
Then I was not afraid, for I
was in a long line that had no beginning, and no end, and the
hand of his father born son took my right hand, and all, up and
down the line that stretched from Time that Was, to Time that
Is, and Is Not Yet, raised their hands to show the link, and
we found that we were one, born of Woman, Son of Man, made in
the Image, fashioned in the Womb by the Will of God, the Eternal
Father.