William Ellis PRICE

1843 - 1921  (~ 77 years)

• Name	William Ellis PRICE
  Born	Apr 1843	Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Gender	Male
  Died	1921	Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Buried	Riverhead Cemetery, Riverhead, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Person ID	I13836	Patterson & Markham Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2019

  
  

  Mother	Helen HART,   b. 1815, , , New York, United States ,   d. 1871  (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F6013	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maclena Elizabeth SAYRE,   b. Apr 1851, Cutchogue, Suffolk, New York, United States ,   d. 15 Apr 1929, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States  (Age ~ 78 years)
  Children	1. Charley B. PRICE,   b. 31 Aug 1875,   d. 27 Aug 1876  (Age 0 years)   2. 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)   3. Vera B. PRICE,   b. Mar 1887, , , New York, United States   4. Amy M PRICE,   b. Jul 1891   5. Helen PRICE,   b. Cal 1873, Riverhead, Suffolk, New York, United States   6. H. Stella PRICE,   b. Cal 1874, Riverhead, Suffolk, New York, United States   7. Mary S. PRICE,   b. Sep 1878, Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States ,   d. Sep 1966, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States  (Age ~ 88 years)
  Family ID	F5127	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.