Biography
Ann was born about or after 1750. She passed away in 1842 in Cumberland County, Virginia.
"Bordering Essex is Caroline County, where Joseph DeJarnette and his wife Mary Pemberton established the plantation which came to be known as Spring Grove...During the 1770's (circa), the DeJarnette sisters Mary and Anna married Richard and John Price. John Price and Anna DeJarnette made Cumberland their permanent residence." [1]
Ann DeJarnette believed to have married John Price between 1778 and 1783. "On the former date, her father recorded a deed of gift to her as Anna DeJarnatt, while on the latter date, he recorded a deed to her as Ann Price. .. They had a daughter named Marie (aka Mary or Polly) Pemberton Price." [2]
"John Price after his marriage to Joseph DeJarnette Sr.'s daughter Ann resided with her in Cumberland County where they reared their children Elizabeth, Mary (aka Marie or Polly), Sophia, Warner W., William D. and John P. Adjoining this land of this younger John Price was the Cumberland Property that John's brother (Richard) bought from their brother-in-law Stark Boulware." [3]
Chancery Court Case brought by children and heirs of John Price husband of Ann DeJarnette Price: Representatives of John Price Plaintiffs vs Admx of John Price Defendant To the Justices of the county court of Cumberland and in Chancery sitting respectfully complaining shew unto your worships your Orators and Oratrices Jno Price, Wm Price, Wainer W. Price, Warner Williams & Betsy Williams his wife formerly [Betsy] Price, James DeJarnett & Polly his wife formerly Polly Price & Sophia Price children & representatives of Jno Price departed this life intestate leaving a considerable estate with real & personal, that Anna Price who is reps to & made deft. hereto wife of sd. Jno Price decd on the _____ day of ___ in the year administered upon her husbands estate & has now the control of the same. That your orators & oratrices are entitled to sd estate & that the sd Anna Price is willing that the said estate should be divided among those persons int______. To the end therefore that your worships order & decree that the commissioners be appointed to lay out & divide the same according to law. That your worships will give each other & further relief as may seem Just & equitable ________ _______ ~Your Orators will ever pray~
The answer of Anna Price, widow and relict or Jno Price decd to a bill of complain exhibited against her by Jno Price, Wm [William DeJarnette Price] Price, W.W. Price [Warner Williams Price], Warner Williams and Betsy Williams formerly Betsy Price, James DeJarnett and Polly his wife formerly Polly Price and Sophia Price children and representatives of Jno Price decd, this deft saving to herself all manner of exceptions ____ for answer saith that the allegations contained in the plaintiffs bill are all true and that she is willing as the plaintiffs have set forth, that the estate mentioned in their bill of complaint should be division among them herein entitled to claim. She denies all fraud & _____ to be ______ disqualified. [4]
Indenture made 11 November 1820 between Anna Price Widow of John L. Price of Cumberland County, Warner Williams and Elizabeth his wife formerly Elizabeth Price of the County of Buckingham, and James DeJarnette and Mary his wife formerly Mary Price of Pittsylvania County and Sophia Price and John P. Price and Amelia his wife of the County of Cumberland of the one part and William D. Price and Warner W. Price of the County of Cumberland of the other part... Heirs of John L. Price deceased. [5]
(1820-1842) "Anna lived for the next twenty-two years with her son William who wrote in an 1842 letter ... my Mother Anna Price is living and confined to her bed the greater part of her time...Late in the year 1842, a Cumberland County court order directed an inventory and appraisement be made of the estate of Anna Price, deceased." [6]
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