Corporal Elbert Ford Price, Jr. was born on October 15, 1946, and was originally from Grafton, Ohio, and was later a resident of Watauga, Tennessee. He served his country in the Vietnam War in the United States Army, as an automatic weapons crewman in B Battery, 1st Battalion, 44th Artillery, 108th Artillery Group. His tour in Vietnam began on February 13, 1967. Later that year, on November 6, 1967, Cpl. Price was killed from mortar fire under hostile conditions in Quang Tri province, South Vietnam; he was 21 years old at the time of his death. Cpl. Price is memorialized on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Panel 29E, Line 34.
The following was submitted for Cpl. Price:
My cousin’s name is Elbert F. Price Jr. Cpl. Price died in Quang Tri provence on 11-06-1967 from the wounds he sustained in a mortar attack. Although born in Grafton Ohio, Elbert made his home in the Range community in Watauga, TN. His name can found on the Vietnam wall Panel 29E, 34. Elbert loved his family and the outdoors. My mother and Elbert were very close childhood companions and mother speaks of Elbert often.
-Submitted by Billy J. Collins II
The Elizabethton Star, November 13, 1967
PFC Elbert Ford Price Jr., 21, of Grafton, Ohio, was killed in combat in Vietnam on November 6th, following then months of service in Vietnam. He was a native of Carter County, and a member of the Cedar Street Prayer Tabernacle Church. He was a graduate of the Range Elementary School and had live in Grafton for the past 13 years. He would have completed his time with the service in December. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Ford Price Sr. of Grafton, O.; three sisters, Mrs. Doris June Hill, Grafton, O., Miss Wilma Dale Price and Miss Phyllis L. Price, both of the home; three brothers, Eddie Dean Price, David Allen Price and Ricky Lynn Price, all of the home; his grandmother, Mrs. Josie Shepherd of Route 3, Elizabethton.
- Rank: Corporal
- Date of birth: 15 October 1946
- Date of death: 6 November 1967
- County: Carter
- Hometown: Watauga
- Service Branch: Army
- Division/Assignment: 44th Artillery, 108th Artillery Group
- Conflict: Vietnam
- Awards: Purple Heart, Bronze Star
- Burial/Memorial Location: Patton-Simmons Cemetery, Toll Branch Road, Johnson City, TN
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XXII, Top Panel
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