Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives

PRICE-MOORE FAMILY
PAPERS, ca. 1850-1956

Collection #:
M 701

Table of Contents

User Information
Historical and Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Folder Listing
Cataloguing Information

Processed by
Chris Harter
21 January 1998

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 small manuscript box

COLLECTION DATES: ca. 1850-1956 (inclusive); 1850-1900 (bulk)

PROVENANCE: American Social History, 4025 Saline Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, 17 December 1997

RESTRICTIONS: None

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: For 10^th Indiana Regiment, see also card catalog under: United States. Army. 10^th Indiana Infantry Regiment; for 150^th Indiana Regiment, see also: SC 1904, George W. Rogers Diaries.

ACCESSION NUMBERS: 1998.0098

NOTES:

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 In 1830, John D. Price (b. 1806) married Sarah Bakehorn (?) (1809-1855). The Prices moved from Butler County, Ohio, to Frankfort, Indiana (Clinton Co.) in 1836. They had eleven children: George W. (b. 1831), Henry Jefferson (1832-1833), William M. (b. 1834), Edward Clinton (1836-1838), Lorenzo (1838-1839), Lydia Ann (b. 1840), James Allen (b. 1842), Hannah E. (b. 1844), Mary Jane (b. 1846), Sarah M. (b. 1852), and Winfield Scott (b. 1854).

James Allen served with the 10^th Indiana Regiment, Company C, during the Civil War from September 1861 to September 1864. He was wounded near Atlanta, Georgia. It is possible that he was the James A. Price who ran for Clinton County treasurer in 1876. His sister, Lydia, married James D. Moore of Tippecanoe County in 1861. Moore served with the 150^th Indiana Regiment, Company G, from March to August 1865. The Moores had at least one daughter, Otta (fl. 1891-1894). Lydia lived in Crawfordsville (Montgomery Co.) in late 1860 and 1861, but she was back in Frankfort by 1862. She lived at the Indiana State Soldier's Home from 1912 to at least 1917.

 Sources: Material in the collection and in the collection accession file.
History of Clinton County, Indiana (1886) p. 603.
Terrell, W.H.H. Report of the Adjutant General…. Vol. 4, p. 159; Vol. 7, p. 572.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

 This collection consists of correspondence and papers relating to the Price-Moore family of Clinton and Tippecanoe Counties, Indiana. The correspondence is written by various members of the family and details their daily activities. Present is a series of letters from James A. Price to his sister and brother-in-law, Lydia and James Moore, written while Price served with the 10^th Indiana Regiment. In them he describes the aftermath of the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Perryville, and the siege of Atlanta.

Other Civil War letters include those from James Moore, one signed "Amos" to Lydia and James Moore, and letters from Lydia to her brother and her husband. There is also a letter from Lydia to an Elva Bell of Frankfort while Lydia was a resident at the Indiana State Soldier's Home (1917?).

Also included in the collection are receipts (1850-55); a Price family genealogy with poems, hymn lyrics, and an essay by Lydia (1859-1861); a mortgage signed by Lydia and James Moore (1876); two Grand Army of the Republic reunion programs (1882, 1892); a program from the First Christian Church in Frankfort, Indiana (1893); and newspaper clippings.

FOLDER LISTING

 FOLDER CONTENTS

1. 1850-1860
2. 1861
3. 1862
4. 1863
5. 1864
6. 1865, Jan.-June
7. 1865, July-Dec.
8. 1866-1879
9. 1880-1889
10. 1890-1899
11. 1900-1956

CATALOGUING INFORMATION