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Rev. Davis Beauregard Price was born in Pocahontas, Randolph Co., Ark., August 5, 1861, and is a son of Dr. Samuel D. and Kate (Eckel) Price, who were born in Hawkins County, Tenn., and can trace their ancestry on both sides back to the very early settlement of Tennessee. The paternal grandfather, Thomas Price, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and he and family are supposed to have been members of the Baptist Church. Later members of the family, however, became adherents of the Methodist Church, among whom were Dr. Samuel D. Price and wife. Rev. D. B. Price received a good common-school education in Johnson County, Ark., whither his father had moved and located upon a farm, and later took an academic course under the preceptorship of Prof. I. L. Burrow, of the Central Collegiate Institute of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Altus, Ark. He taught school during the vacations, and thus obtained means to pursue his studies. He has this year (1888) completed his third year in a thorough theological course and his second year in the Chautauqua course. On the 21st of March, 1885, he received his first license to preach the Gospel, and in the fall of that year he removed to Missouri, and was admitted on trial in the Southwest Missouri Conference, September 30, and was appointed to the Sheldon Circuit, October 5, by Bishop J. C. Granberry. In October of the following year he was appointed to Peirce City Station, and was re-appointed the following October. He was married October 18, 1883, in Altus, Franklin Co., Ark., to Hallie, the daughter of Rev. F. M. Paine, of the Arkansas Conference. She was born in Fort Coffee, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, December 26, 1861, but was reared in Johnson County, Ark., and educated in Quitman College, Ark. They have two little children, Leta and Olin H. Rev. Price has done much to further the cause of Christianity since he has been preaching the Gospel, and is a forcible speaker and concise and deep reasoner.