John Price, the son of William and Sarah Price, was born the 12th day of April in the year 1820 in Monmouthshire, South Wales.

One day the Mormon missionaries were baptizing some of the people that they had converted to the Mormon Church in a river nearby.  John and his boy friend decided to go down to the river and throw stones at them.  The missionaries held a meeting on the river bank and sang a song and had a prayer.  After listening to the Mormon people sing and pray, their spirits had been changed, they could not throw their stones.

Before this, John had belonged to the Methodist Church.  After hearing the gospel that the Mormon missionaries were teaching and watching them baptizing people in the river, he was from then on converted and knew that the Mormon Church was the true church of God.

After his first wife died, he labored as a missionary for ten years for the Mormon Church.

On June 17, 1851, he married Margarett Edwards, the daughter of Jenkin Edwards and Elizabeth Clayton, who was born December 18, 1832 at DeVonport, DeVonshire, Wales, to whom two children were born before leaving their native land.  Their names were John and Joseph.

At this time the Mormon people were preparing to leave their homes in their native land to go to Zion because of their living testimony in their souls regarding the divine mission of our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ.

They set sail in the fall of 1856 with their two children.  While on the ship, their youngest son, Joseph, who was one year old, became ill and died from measles or some skin eruption.  They wrapped him in a feather bed and tried to keep him until they reached the shore, but just as they were nearing the shore, the waves turned and drove them back.  They wrapped his body up and lowered it into the ocean.  His mother was very weak and the death of her son grieved her very much.

The next day they reached land.  A baby was born and died there.  They had to bury it on the plains and go on.

In the Winter of 1856, they came with some of the immigrants to Utah with the last of the handcart company.  Small two-wheeled carts were made at the place of starting in Iowa. On these carts, they loaded baggage and provisions and the men and boys pulled them across the plains.  A few ox teams were used to haul the heaviest loads in wagons and they walked and pulled their carts over the 1300 miles of their journey. They were caught in the fierce snow storms in the mountains and they had just bread to eat.  John had to put the bread under his arm to keep it from freezing then gave it to his wife, who was sick, to eat from and then put it back under his arm again.

Susanna Thain came with Father and Mother and helped care for John William, who was just four years old.  She walked through the snow in the cold and this crippled her and she was crippled the rest of her life.  After they go to Salt Lake, John married her.  Many of the people who were in the company died from hunger and cold.

They came to Salt Lake Valley and later settled in Ogden, where they lived in a willow house which had been plastered red with mud.  In January, a baby girl was born and part of their willow house blew down, so they carried the mother and baby over to the neighbor’s house which wasn’t much better.  ( This baby was me, Margaret Price).

John Price worked at Far’s.  He didn’t have very much money and many times he sat on the river bank and dipped bread into the water to soften it before he could eat it.

After Margaret (mother) got stronger, she went around doing washings and for pay she received buttermilk with a little bit of butter in it.  When she was sick, she wanted some tea and her husband went to get some for her.  At this time they had to pay quite high for just a little bit.  A man brought tea into Ogden on a wagon and they had to  put their money in their hat and he would give them some tea.  All he got was two ounces and she measured it in a spoon and put a few drops of water over it to drink it for tonic.

They moved from Ogden to Willard where their two year old son, Edward, died and then she died and left a young baby (she was the mother of eight children).  She was buried in Willard.  She died February 1, 1866.  Mrs. John Gibbs took the baby and took care of it for a while and then they brought her back home to Susanna Thain Price, John’s third wife, and she raised her.  They didn’t have a nipple to use to feed the baby so they wrapped a large chicken quill in a piece of white linen and put this over the bottle for the baby to suck through (the baby’s name was Cathrine and she grew up to be a strong woman).

John’s wife Susanna was a cripple.  She was the mother of five children.

They moved from Willard to Malad, Idaho.  Later John married two more women, Margaret and Jane.  He was the father of  17 children.  He suffered from asthma in his later years, which caused his death on February 13, 1883, at the age of 63 years.  He was a very religious man and did all he could to help the church. 

His father, William Price, and his mother Sarah Price, were buried in the Newland Church Yard, Gloucestershire.  John was buried in the Malad Cemetery.