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Somewhere in Pennsylvania, my great-great grandfather, John Price was born on February 21st, 1798.  Probably it was in Greene County, Greene Township.   We have recently learned that he had at least two brothers, Jacob and William S., and possibly a third named Henry. Also, was Malinda Price, who married Samuel Hickman, related? A cousin, a sister?   His parents were Joseph Price and Elizabeth Keener. Margaret Hickman, whom John married in Greene County, PA around 1822 was from nearby Franklin Township, in Greene County. She was the daughter of William Hickman and Margaret Stewart, the daughter of John Stewart.

Then there is the mystery of the name.  Some insist it was John Franklin Price or Jahn Franklin Price, but in all census, tax, and land records no middle name is listed.  The name appears as it does on the tombstone below, simply "John Price".

The Hickmans started moving to Ohio in 1822.  Sometime between 1823 and 1829 John moved from Pennsylvania to Monroe County, Ohio.  He lived on a parcel of land before buying it, paid taxes on it in 1830, and bought it in 1831.  John, Margaret, and William Hickman are listed in the 1830 tax rolls there.

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of thy redeeming love.

Here I raise mine Ebenezer,
Hither by thy help I'm come;
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me, when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed his precious blood.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for thy courts above.

-- Robert Robinson, 1758 (1 Samuel 7:12)

Robert Robinson wrote this hymn in London England in 1758 and it first appeared in a collection of hymns used by the Church of Christ in Angel Alley Bishopgate 1759. There has been some speculation that this hymn might have been written by the Countess of Huntingdon; however, it is generally agreed to be the work of Robinson. The second stanza beginning "Here I raise my Ebenezer," refers to an incident related in 1 Samuel 7:12. The first publication of this text in the United States was in the Christian duty, exhibited in a series of hymns collected from various authors (Germantown Pennsylvania 1791). The tune to the hymn was written by a man named Nettleton and it first appeared in a two part tune in John Wyeths Repository of Sacred Music 1813 the name of the tune was "Hallejuah". Nettleton was a well known evangelist of the early 19th century who compiled a book named "Village Hymns 1825". Ebeneezer means 'stone of help' or memorial stone. It comes from I Samuel. In verse 4:1 it is the location where the Israelites fought the Phillistines. In verse 7:12, after the Israelites had defeated the Phillistines, Samuel erected a memorial stone and named it Ebeneezer. We're told this hymn appeared in the old Cokesbury Hymnal of the Methodist Church, (now the United Methodist Church).  Coincidentally, there was a reverend John Price in the area that built the first Methodist church there, but it appears this was a different John Price.
 
 

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