Information Sheet

 

 

R         Price, Newton Jasper, 1839-1887.

818                  Letter, 1866.

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This is a holograph letter dated 27 February 1866 from N. J. Price at Springfield in Greene County, Missouri, to “Bro. John.”  The letter concerns a legal matter and a forthcoming move.

 

In this letter N. J. Price asked “Bro John” to present an enclosed receipt to a Dr. Morrow, so that a legal execution filed against Price could be stopped.  Price also reported that “I got back from St Louis sunday morning.  I shall move next week.  Lucy is going down tomorrow to fit [fix?] up the shop.”

 

Newton Jasper Price was born in Tennessee on 18 September 1839.  He married Lydia A. Mathis in Greene County, Mis­souri, on 27 December 1865.  In the censuses of 1870 and 1880 they are found in Neosho Township of Newton County, Missouri, where N. J.’s occupation was listed as “clerk in store.”  N. J. Price died on 2 November 1887.  He is buried in Neosho’s I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

 

 

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