Stephen W. Blount and Benjamin F. Price Collection
Content Description
Correspondence between Benjamin F. Price and Minte Price and Mary Garrett, Stephen W. Blount Jr. and his wife Mary C. Blount. San Augustine, Texas deed records and late 19th early 20th century photographs associated with the family of Stephen W. Blount Jr. (1853-1928).
Dates
- Event: Donated 4/7/2018
- Creation: 1834 - 1930
Creator
- Blount, Stephen W. Jr., 1854-1928 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Stephen W. Blount Jr. (1853-1928) was the son of Stephen W. Blount (1808-1890) and Mary Landon (1812-1891). On May 25, 1876 in San Augustine County, Texas he married Mary Clementine Price (1856-1943) daughter of Benjamin F. Price (1827-1867) and Clementine Armita Garrett (1836-1862).
He atteneded Sewanee University in Sewanee, Tennessee. Blount was very active in legal and political arenas a judge, lawyer, state legislator in Democratic Party politics in the state. The family lived in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
Benjamin F. Price (1827-1867) was the son of Elijah Price (1791-1852) and Temperance Thomas (1805-1859). Elijah Price moved his family to Texas in 1841. Benjamin married Clementine Arminta Garrett (1836-1862). Their daughter Mary Clementine Price married Stephen W. Blount Jr. (1853-1928).
Benjamin F. Price was an editor for the Redland Herald (1850- )and the East Texian (1857-1858) newspapers. He served in the Civil War as a Lieutenant of Co. E. Lanes Regiment, Majors Brigade and Lanes Brigade.
Full Extent
2.00 Cubic Feet (One banker box and one oversized box)
Language of Materials
English
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
Letters, photographs, land documents, and other legal and personal documents associated with the families of Stephen W. Blount Jr. (1853-1928) and Benjamin F. Price (1827-1867) of San Augustine and Nacogdoches County, Texas.
Arrangement
The collection is housed in one bankers box and an oversized box.
Bibliography
Ancestry. (2026). Elijah Price (1791-1852) - Find a Grave Memorial. Findagrave.Com. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111250214/elijah-price
East Texas Research Center, San Augustine County, County Clerk, Probate Record, Box 6, Folder 10, Elijah Price
Obit. (1928, December 24). Judge S.W. Blount dies Sunday afternoon at 2:30. The Daily Sentinel, 1.
Obit. (1928, December 26). Blount Funeral Was Attended by Large Number of People. The Daily Sentinel, 1.
"Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2M2-5RT : 22 January 2020), Stephen W. Blount, 1876.
- Title
- Guide to the Stephen W. Blount and Benjamin F. Price Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Linda Reynolds
- Date
- 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the East Texas Research Center Repository
