Sarah Neal (Armistead) Price (1882 - 1971)

Born 24 Jan 1882 in Bolton, Hinds, MS

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Black Price Sr. — married 30 Jun 1908 in Hinds, Mississippi, United States

Died May 1971 at age 89 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, United States

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Biography

Sarah was born in 1890. Her parents were Charles Henry Armistead and Anna Virginia Neal.

She married Dr. Robert Black Price in Hinds, Mississippi in 1908. ^[1]

Dr. Robert and Mrs. Sarah Armistead Price served as medical missionaries in Taichow until 1915 until they were evacuated in 1941. They were appointed to China in 1915. After a year’s language study in Nanking, in 1916 they were assigned to the newly opened Taichow station where they served until World War II intervened. The Chinese in Taichow remember Dr. Price as the unfortunate doctor who had six daughters, all but one born in Taichow. He built the 60-bed Sara Walkup Hospital in 1922, with funds provided in memory of his mother by William Henry Belk of the Belk Department Stores of North Carolina. He served as superintendent of the hospital. A three-story building was added in 1930, and a one-story building housing tuberculosis patients. In 1927 the hospital in Taichow changed flags six times during the Chinese civil war. It did not close during the Japanese occupation in 1938, and the missionary presence continued through 1941. ^[2][3]

They returned home on furlough in 1932 when their daughter Elizabeth was born. They also returned in 1937, sailing on the Empress of Asia and re-entering through Canada. ^[4] In August 1941, the American consulate ordered American women and children home due to imminent war with Japan. Dr. Price (and his first cousin Rev. Robert "Pete" Richardson) were caught in China when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and (they were) held until returned as exchange prisoners on the Swedish repatriation ship, the Gripsholm, in September 1942. ^[5]

They had children born in Mississippi: Robert Black Jr. (1909-1910 died in infancy.) and Mary Kate (Wells) (1910-1993). The children born in China were Caroline Armistead (Stockett) (1918-2001); Anne Armistead (Truly) (1920-1995); Beverly Blunt Price (1925-1928 buried in Shanghai) and lastly Elizabeth Armistead (Johnson) (1932-2012) born in Mississippi.

Sarah passed away in 1971 and was buried in the Morrison Cemetery Learned, Hinds County, Mississippi. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ [1]: "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979," database, FamilySearch. Sarah Mae Armstead in entry for Robert B Price, 30 Jun 1908; citing Marriage, Hinds, Mississippi, United States.
2. ↑ [2] phcmontreat.org Biographies -- PCUS Missionaries to China 1900 - 1920 published by the Presbyterian Heritage Center.
3. ↑ [3] Rev. E.C. Scott, D.D. (Stated Clerk of the General Assembly) Compiler MINISTERIAL DIRECTORY of the PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, U.S. 1861-1941 1942, Published by Order of the General Assembly Press of Von Brockmann-Jones Co. Austin, Texas p.594
4. ↑ [4]: "United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956", database, FamilySearch. Robert Black Price, 1937.
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #98279064 Elizabeth Armistead Price Johnson (1932-2012) (contains bio above mentioned.)
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #36246069 Sarah Neal Armistead Price (1882-1971)

• [5]: "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch. Sarah Price in household of Robert Price, Beat 2, Hinds, Mississippi, United States.
• [6]: "United States 1950 Census" FamilySearch. Entry for Sara Price and Elizabeth Price, 8 April 1950.

See also:

• [7]: "Family Tree," database entry for Sarah Neal Armistead contributed by various users.