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Rev. David Beauregard PRICE was born in Pocahontas, Randolph Co., Ark.,
August 5, 1861, and is a son of Dr. Samuel D. and Kate (ECKEL) PRICE, who
were born in Hawkins County, Tenn., and can trace their ancestry on both
sides back to the very early settlement of Tennessee. The paternal
grandfather, Thomas PRICE, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and he
and family are supposed to have been members of the Baptist Church. Later
members of the family, however, became adherents of the Methodist Church,
among whom were Dr. Samuel D. Price and wife. Rev. D. B. Price received a
good common-school education in Johnson County, Ark., whither his father
had moved and located upon a farm, and later took an academic course under
the preceptorship of Prof. I. L. BURROW, of the Central Collegiate
Institute of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Altus, Ark. He
taught school during the vacations, and thus obtained means to pursue his
studies. He has this year (1888) completed his third year in a thorough
theological course and his second year in the Chautauqua course. On the
21st of March, 1885, he received his first license to preach the Gospel,
and in the fall of that year he removed to Missouri, and was admitted on
trial in the Southwest Missouri conference, September 30, and was appointed
to the Sheldon Circuit, October 5, by Bishop J. C. GRANBERRY. In October
of the following year he was appointed to Peirce City Station, and was
re-appointed the following October. He was married October 18, 1883, in
Altus, Franklin Co., Ark., to Hallie, the daughter of Rev. F. M. PAINE, of
the Arkansas Conference. She was born in Fort Coffee, Choctaw Nation,
Indian Territory, December 26, 1861, but was reared in Johnson County,
Ark., and educated in Quitman College, Ark. They have two little children,
Leta and Olin H. Rev. Price has done much to further the cause of
Christianity since he has been preaching the Gospel, and is a forcible
speaker and concise and deep reasoner.
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