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BIOGR PHIC L , QE HISTORIC Chrnrral Sirrling lgrirv N THE THIRTIES Virginia lands were beginning to be conspicuously worn, H :Q and it was ilush times in the West t W3 and the Southwest- Missouri, Ala- s bama, Mississippi, and Texas. Many Virginians in those years sold their ' - WJ plantations and moved to the Missis- sippi Valley and beyond. From the Recollections ofa Mississippi Planter l' we learn how Mr. Dabney of Eastern Virginia, about 1835, took his family and a large number of slaves to that more bountiful region. Among this class of emigrants was Pugh Price, who left Prince Edward county for Missouri in 1831. XVith him went his son, Sterling, who was born in 1809, the year of great men, had been a student at Hampden-Sidney, and had studied law under the tamous chancellor Creed Taylorili Settling in Chariton county, a river county inthe northern part of the State, Pugh Price resumed the plantcr's lite, probably leaving the management of affairs to his son who seems never to have followed the law as a profession. For ten years, until his entrance upon public life, Sterling Price was disciplined in the old school for public nicn-the business of a country gentleman with a legal equipment. From the Hrst he was a man that people could trust. Colonel Snead, writing of the Missouri Convention of 1861, says ff Price was elected with great unanimity, as he would have been had he taken tl1e contrary opinion. i'Sterling Price was born about two and a half miles from Farmville. His father's house stood on the road which crosses the Little Buffalo, southwest of Farmville. The house is not now stand- ing. It is not certain that Price took a degree at Hampden-Sidney. He was a member of the Union Society. He wrote for a time in the office of Branch Worsham, Esqr., clerk of the county. I3
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