Robert Joshua Price was the son of Thomas 

Garland and Nanny Greer Price. Robert 

married Leona Reese and they had the 

following children:

Frank Leslie Price

Sadie Mae Price

Robert L Price

William H. Price

Dorothy Elise Price

James Reese Price

Harry Greer Price

Lois Vivian Price

Robert Joshua Price was called Poppa Bob. 

Their son Robert L. Price was killed in France. 

With the money received from the 

serviceman's insurance Poppa Bob purchased a 

dairy farm on Sun Creek Road, north of 

Starkville Mississippi, near the property Poppa 

Bob's Grandfather, Thomas Price had 

purchased in 1855. Living in the country. all 

the boys were particularly fond of hunting and 

fishing. Frank was the oldest boy and all the 

others looked up to him. Most people had 

nicknames which was a tradition in Starkville. 

Frank's nickname was shorty, but they called 

him that behind his back because 

He did not take kindly to it. The other boys had 

to suffer with whatever nickname they got. Jim 

Price's nickname was Fagan. Harry's nickname 

was Fuddy. Bill's nickname was Sir Dugan. The 

girls had nicknames too. Sadie May was called 

Icey and Dorothy Elise was simply known as 

Sis.   Some of the names were not nice and we 

have forgotten them.

As the oldest son, Frank was among the first 

working. He worked on the Railroad for a time. 

All the boys loved to hunt and Frank had a 

friend that was a researcher at Mississippi 

State University. Their Department of Animal 

Husbandry was trying to revitalize the English 

Setter breed of Dog. One famous dog that 

came from this family of dogs was named 

Mississippi Zeb, who was the most famous field 

trial dog. Frank was able to get a bloodline 

descendant of   Mississippi Zeb. They named 

the dog Price's Doctor Sam. All of Franks 

brothers

And cousins had hunting dogs from this most 

famous line. Frank's dog, Price's Doctor Sam 

was widely reknown for it's heritage and 

hunting skills. Many who did not understand 

Frank did not realize that siring this dog 

probably provided a great deal of the family's 

living during the great depression. Those that 

didn't understand thought Frank was cruel to 

dogs when actually he loved them and  

continued this breed. Frank was very generous 

to others. My own dad, Bill Price Jr. had a 

puppy that was a descendant of Doctor Sam.

Jim Price liked to hunt coons. He would have 

rather had a coon dog than a bird dog, no 

matter how valuable the bird dog was. Jim's 

nickname was Fagan. He died in 1967. We 

were sitting at Harry Price's house with Frank, 

Bill Sr., Bill Jr, John Didlake and myself after 

the funeral. Harry told a story about Fagan. It 

was in October on a very cold night. Fagan was 

thinking about buying this famous coon dog 

but wanted to try him out before   he gave the 

guy the $500 asked. This was in the 1930's 

and $500 was a lot of money. The owner did 

not

want to let the dog go hunting with Fagan in 

case something were to happen to such an 

expensive dog. He relented however when 

Fagan offered a $50 retainer in the event 

something were to happen to the dog. At that 

point Gertrude, Harry's wife came in and put a 

pint of whiskey on the table. That was when 

the story took a wierd turn. Fagan apparently 

didn't want to buy the dog in the first place, he 

just wanted a dog to hunt. So anyhow he forks 

up $50 and off they go to the swamps to hunt 

coons.

Coon hunting is a serious artform. It takes 

years of experience to learn how to sit around 

a campfire and listen to a bunch of dogs 

chasing a coon through the woods. The more 

practiced of the hunters claim they can tell 

their own dogs though generally most probably 

can't even tell their own names by the time 

the dogs detect, chase, and tree a coon. The 

object is to knock the coon out of the tree and 

let it fight all the dogs. I have never seen 

anything that resembles