The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-09-26


John Winston Price, died at her home
on East Main street, Hillsboro, Ohio,
Thursday, Sept. 10th. Mrs. Price was
the mother of ten children, Eliza
Winston O'Hara, Lyme Startling, Joseph
Farrell, John Winston, Lucy Startling,
Anne Mcdowell Childs, Cornelia Dabney
Pugsley, Ellen Price Gill, Jack Winston
and Overton Startling, four Of whom,
Mrs. Childs, Mrs. Pugsley, Mrs. Gill and
Jack w. are living. She was one of the
pioneers of Hillsboro She, her husband
and their large family occupied notable
place in the history of the town, having
lived for the past fifty.five years in the
same house, a quaint old fashioned
mansion of the style of the early days.
She was the eldest daughter of Judge
John Adair Mcdowell and Lucy Todd
Startling. She was born Oct. 25th, 1910,
in Mercer county, KY. In 1914, at the
age Of four, she came with her father
and mother to Ohio. They settled at
Franklinton to be near her uncle, Lucas
Sullivant. 1t was then small village,
and the greater part of the present site
of Columbus was covered with primeval
forest.
Mrs. Price was educated at the famous
school of Mrs. Willard, at Troy, N. Y.
In 1928 she married John Winston Price,
of Hanover county, Virginia, graduate
Of William and Mary College, and law
student under Chief Justice Marshall
They lived in Columbus for two years
after her marriage, occupying high
social position. She was loved and re.
spected by all who knew her, and her
beauty and her genial nature is still re-
membered by those who knew her in
those early days. In 1880 she and her
husband moved to Hillsboro. Her
mind was highly cultivated and stored
with knowledge. Those only who knew
her we'll and intimately could under.
stand and appreciate the worth and ex.
cellence of her character. She was
blessed with an unusual amount of
common sense and had an extremely
accurate knowledge of geography and
history. She retained in her memory
all that she had heard or read of famous
persons, places and events. She took a
deep interest in all that was going on in
the world. She talked easily and charm
ingly upon the many subjects with
which her mind was stored. As list
ener she was bright, wide awake and
full of appreciative sympathy. Her
society, conversation and wise counsel
were sought and valued by all who
knew her. She was wholly devoted to
the happiness of those dear to her. She
was the most devoted of mothers, willing
at all times to sacrifice herself for hel
children. A kind, loyal friend, digni.
fed womanly woman, with brave
heroic nature, shrinking from giving
pain to the least of Gods creatures, {
woman of strong convictions, but neve
wishing to force her opinion on others
Her pastor spoke OF her as self.distrust
ing Christian. And so she was-ful! o
humility, gentleness and love. He sail
when one had lived in community 70
sixty.five years and had welded an in
fiuence always for good, as she had,
was we'll for that community to pause
She had seen this little hamlet grow t
village of several thousand. She ha
out.lived all her friends and acquain
ances who were here when she cam,
, While much of an invalid for the pa,
, four years, she was most patient ont
, She was woman of the old regim,
spared any decay OF her mental facu
, ties, she passed away in serene ol
, age. ''ike sheaf ripe unto the harvel
was garnered in" leaving a legacy
. precious memories to her children an
childrn's children.
c "Acts revealed her spirits worth,
: In God she put her trust,
; For Others lived. and left 10 earth
The memory Of the iust"