Charles Price

Charles Price was born 1 September 1800 in Kimbolton, Herefordshire. In January 1820, he enlisted in the 53rd Regiment of the British army and joined them at Aleany Barracks, on the  Isle of Wight. On 25 October 1821, he landed in Madras, India. Thereafter, Charles served in Bangalore, in Madras and Calcutta.  He later fought in the Burma War and was stationed for six months at Arracan, where he fell sick with malaria. He was promoted to Corporal, but finally was recommended to return to England for recovery.  He arrived back in England 17 April 1827, and received a discharge with his military service recorded as 6 years, 136 days.

Between 1826 and 1840, Charles built up a business in farming. He became a preacher with the United Brethren. Charles was among the first six of the United Brethren to be baptized on March 6th into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was ordained an Elder 21 June 1840, by Wilford Woodruff.  He was then placed in charge of the Churches at Ledbury, Moore-End Cross and Ridgeway Cross.  His circumstances were such that he was now a full-time missionary and set apart to work in the Herefordshire Area.

Charles Price left Liverpool on the ship, “North America”, on 8 September 1840, and landed in New York on 12 October 1840.  He arrived in Nauvoo in November 1840, where he began working five and a half years on the Temple.  For much of this time, he was sick.  It is not known if his malarial issues returned. On 9 October 1841, he married Mary Jane Shelton. In December 1843, he paid $40 for a one-half-acre lot in Nauvoo. He was a member of the Nauvoo 4th Ward and served in the Nauvoo Legion. In April 1846, he sold the land he owned in Nauvoo for $300.

In 1851, they traveled in an independent wagon train and settled in Lehi where he buried his wife, Mary.  On 19 February 1857, he married two women - Ann Collett Oakey, and Caroline Gaston Blakey, a widow with children of her own. He and Ann had 5 children, while he and Caroline had 2 children. He would go to Council Bluffs, to Pleasant Grove, to Lehi, to Harmony, Utah, wherever he was called to serve.  He consecrated all his property to the Church in 1872 from Lehi, Utah.  Furthermore, he would add to his career as a military man by fighting Indians in Utah.  Charles was the county surveyor in Levan, Utah.  He served another mission later in life.

Charles died on 27 May 1873 in Harrisville, Utah - Age 73.