Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886

William J. Price, a leading citizen of Lawrence County, Tenn., is of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in the States in 1849, son of Ezekiel and Martha Price, who were natives of North Carolina and settlers of Tennessee in 1821. The father was teacher and merchant in early life, but retired to the farm after marriage. He was member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and died in Lawrence County in 1883. William J. was raised on a farm and educated at West Point, Tenn. At the age of twenty-eight years he began teaching school, and the expiration of three years began farming, which he has continued up to the present time. In 1876 he purchased the farm of fifty acres, on which he now lives, and in 1882 was chosen magistrate of his district, and has faithfully discharged the duties of that office up to the present time. He is a Democrat, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In 1881 he wedded Mary T. Kelley, a daughter of John and Susan Kelley. She was born in Tennessee in 1845, and is the mother of one child, named Lillie S., who was born in 1883.

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