Editing John Price (section)

=== Early Years: From Tennessee to the Deep South  ===

John Buren Price was born on November 11, 1815 in Tennessee. His mother had been born in Tennessee; his father in Virginia. His earliest known American forebears were in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and were from Scots-Irish descent. 

Price married Eliza Jane Adair (1811-1892), a native of Tennessee whose parents were from South Carolina. His wife was nearly five years his senior and she had several children from previous marriages. Price became stepfather to these children. Evidently, in the mid-1840s they were in Pickens County, Mississippi. Price’s wife was part of the large Adair clan who joined the Mormons ''en masse.''