William Ellis Price
1843 - 1921 (78 years)-
Name William Ellis Price Born 14 Apr 1843 Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States 
Gender Male Died 23 Jul 1921 Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States Buried Riverhead Cemetery, Riverhead, Suffolk, New York, United States Person ID I13836 Molloy-Remde Family Tree Aug 23 Last Modified 5 Jun 2022
Father Thomas F. Price, b. 8 Feb 1807, New Radnor, Radnnorshire, Wales, United Kingdom , d. 23 Dec 1870, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 63 years) Mother Hannah Brower, b. 29 Dec 1814, New York City, New York, New York, United States , d. 27 Jul 1845, New York City, New York, New York, United States (Age 30 years) Married 10 Oct 1939 New York City, New York, New York, United States Family ID F14748 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Father Thomas F. Price, b. 8 Feb 1807, New Radnor, Radnnorshire, Wales, United Kingdom , d. 23 Dec 1870, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 63 years) Relationship Birth Mother Helen Hart, b. 19 Mar 1815, , Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 19 Oct 1871, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 56 years) Relationship Birth Married 26 Mar 1850 New York City, New York, New York, United States Family ID F6013 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Maclena Elizabeth Sayre, b. 26 Apr 1851, Cutchogue, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 15 Apr 1929, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 77 years) Married 14 Sep 1871 Riverhead, Suffolk, New York, United States Notes - by Reverend Samuel Orcutt
Children 1. Charles B. Price, b. 3 Sep 1872, Riverhead, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 27 Aug 1873, Riverhead, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 0 years)2. Helen S. Price, b. 4 Mar 1874, Riverhead, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 15 Jul 1896, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 22 years)3. Hannah Estelle Price, b. 31 Mar 1876, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 3 Jan 1898, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 21 years)4. Mary Sayre Price, b. 1 Sep 1878, Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 29 Apr 1965, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 86 years)5. Harold Woodford Price, b. 1 Feb 1885, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. Sep 1977, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 92 years)6. Vera B. Price, b. 7 Mar 1887, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 20 Jun 1960, Aquerbogue, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 73 years)7. Amy Marie Price, b. 11 Jul 1891, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 1949, Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 57 years)Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 Family ID F5127 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Born 1843 and died 1921 on gravestone; born Apr 1846 according to 1900 US Census
"...a bugle boy or drummer for the unit enlisted fromhis home town for the Civil War, and his name is on a Civil War memorial in Greeport, NY." according to great-grandson, James Droste.
Served in the Civil War as a drummer or bugle boy. Listed on a monument
in Greenport, NY, giving the names of those from the village who served
in the Civil War.
Loved to give everyone a nickname. Called his daughter-in-law Jessie
"Rosie." Rosie was a former girlfriend of Harold, Jessie's husband. The two
were the best of friends, and in Jessie's eyes, William Ellis could do no
wrong.
Jessie knew that William Ellis had come for an extended visit when he
brought his can of pipe tobacco with him. It seems to have happened often,
as my mother, Jessie and Harold's daughter, can remember him coming to
visit. He would fight with his wife, and stay with his son for about a week,
never contacting his own wife. Then he would return home.
William Ellis died in the home of Harold and Jessie. He asked Jessie to
help him sit up in bed, so he could see out the window. The next time she
went into his bedroom, later in the morning, to check on him, he had died,
apparently peacefully.
His granddaughter Margaret remembered him fondly, tho she was very
young when he died. She did not know where he was born, but knew he was
at least raised in Greenport, if not born there.
Margaret estimated his birth year as 1841. I found a census record of
William E Price, age 16, in the 1860 census. Margaret had given his
father's name as Edward, but the father in the census record was Thomas.
Born in Wales as Margaret said William E's father was. I have taken this to
be the family, as this was the only Price family in Greenport in the 1860
census. Since William Ellis went to the Civil War from Greenport, as a child/
noncombatant, this seems very likely.
- Born 1843 and died 1921 on gravestone; born Apr 1846 according to 1900 US Census