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Note: Thomas Eugene Price was born on Oct. 23, 1874, the son of Albert Charles Price and Carrie Philena Billings Price, on their dairy farm near Oakfield, Wi. He had and older brother Albert and a sister Elda. He father died when Gene was 12, and his mother later married Charles Cowles, and they had four children. Gene grew up working on the farm and going to school in Oakfield. he went to a business school for two year in Fond Du Lac, Wi. and bought a dairy farm one and a half miles from the home place. He then went into business with a uncle in Oakfield, selling Deere machinery and they also had a cement business. Gene and Edna were married on Oct. 24, 1911 in Velva, North Dakota, by her sister Anna's husband who was a Methodist minister there. On their honeymoon, Gena and Edna headed into Montana and traveled by horse and coach through Yellowstone Park. They also toured various places in eastern Montana, looking for farmland. They found what they wanted on Sec. 16-20-70, where the grass was growing belly high on the horses. They bought the farm in 1911 and hauled machinery, lumber, chickens, horses, a cow, and a couple of pigs on the train to Savage. They built a house, barn, etc. on the farm and Gene started breaking up the prairie sod with a 30-60 Pioneer gasoline powered tractor and a Avery plow. He seeded some flax the first year, and finally, over a period of several years, got almost all of the 640 acres under cultivation. Their first child, Dorothy, was born in 1913 at Edna's sisters home in Oakfield, Wi., where Gene and Edna had gone for the birth, as there were little or no medical facilities in Eastern Montana at that time. Dorothy lived only a few hours and is buried in the Oakfield Cemetery. The second child, Eugene Armitage Price, was also born in Oakfield, on March 9, 1915. The last child, Donald Albert, was born April 18, 1918 on the farm near Savage. Times were hard on the farm and they experienced hail storms, dry weather and grasshopper infestations, but theirs was a happy home. Gene played the piano many evenings, and they all joined in singing gospel hymns and the other songs. There were also some fairly good crops, too, and many neighborly picnics and berry picking get together. The boys went to the one room Breezy Flats school. In 1928, when Eugene was ready to start high school, Gene and Edna rented the farm to Aaron and Emma Fink and bought a house in Sidney. The boys had started school earlier, Eugene in high school and Donald in the 5th grade, and had roomed and boarded at the Huling's home in Sidney for awhile. Edna, Gene and Don also lived in a rental house across the street from the School before harvesting was completed and before moving into the newly purchased home. Edna died on Jan 3, 1929 and was buried in Wisconsin next to their daughter Dorothy. After Edna died Eugene and Donald did most of the housework and cooking, while dad was making a living. Gene went to work for the Rounce brothers at the Gem City Motors, selling Chevrolet cars and trucks. When the Colorado people came to Sidney to buy irrigated farm land, he worked for both the Gem City and also the Valley Hardware selling International machinery from 1929. When Eugene was ready to start college, they moved to Minneapolis so that he could go to the University of Minnesota. Donald then started school at John Marshall High. Gene died on August 23, 1964 and is buried in the Oakfield cemetery beside his wife, Edna and daughter, Dorothy.
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