Research as of today indicates that Rebecca “Becky” Price was born about 1810 
to Hamity Price (1771-1819) and Hannah _____ (1780-after 1834) in Sampson 
County, NC.  
 
On October 8, 1824, Becky Price gave birth to a son, Stephen Henry Price, when 
she was an impressionable young girl of about 14 years.  The father of her child is
unknown.  Family stories handed down say the reason Becky couldn’t marry the 
father was that he was already married.  On February 10, 1828, when her son was 
4 years old and she was 18, Becky Price married Bryant Parker.  Three weeks 
before her wedding, Rebecca Price made a deed of gift to her toddler son.  This 20 
January 1828 deed was witnessed by her brother-in-law Daniel Jones and was 
executed before Rebecca's marriage possibly to reserve her Price property for her 
son Stephen Henry Price before she married.  

We know almost nothing about the man who was probably Becky’s father.  Hamity 
Price shows up in the 1810 census for Sampson County, NC, with no children, and 
in an 1834 deed, his widow, Hannah Price, and her children, Elizabeth Price Jones, 
Rebecca Price Parker, Caleb Price, Absolem Price, William Price, Edney Price 
Walker, and Abigail Price Southerland, sued to recover land as heirs of Hamaty Price.

Becky Price and Bryant Parker had 9 children between 1829 and 1845.  Becky Price 
Parker died about 1873 and is buried in Holly Hills Church, Duplin Co, NC. 





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