Joseph Neal Price

  General Notes:

Installer with Diamond State Telephone Co. (AT&T Bell System), primarily at Dupont in Seaford, DE. Picture taken at his retirement after 38 years. Gravestone dob reads 1891 and 1900 census reads 1892. Joe was a trumpet player with the Tall Cedars Marching Band...Neal was middle name, according to Gloria Price Michaels, his daughter.
WWI Registration Card No. 85 [1917]: Joseph N. Price, 26, born Dec. 23, 1891, and living on Front St., Seaford, DE.; working as self-employed house painter. He claimed an exemption from the draft for reasons of supporting, wife, child and mother.
15 January 1916 Marriage Certificate (7:30 PM) for Joseph N. Price, 24, painter, and Goldy M. Thompson, 23 -- both native of DE. Virgil and Ruth Marvel were witnesses. Parents listed: W. H. Price (native of PA) and Anna Price (native of DE); Harvey Thompson (native of MD) and Martha Thompson (native of DE).
5 January 1920 Census for Seaford Town: Joseph N. Price, 28, b. DE as were parents, electrician with the telephone company; Goldie M., 26, b. DE as were parents; Joseph M., 2 8/12; Anna M., 5/12. Rents home.
10 April 1930 Census for Seaford Town: Joseph N. Price, 38, married at 25, home owner, b. DE, father b. PA, mother b. DE, "combination man" with telephone company; Goldie M., 36, married at 23, b. DE as were parents; Joseph M., 13; Anna Marie, 11; W. Reginald, 8; Gloria E., 3 7/12 -- all children b. DE.
WWII Registration Card U140: Joseph Neal Price, 50, born Dec. 23, 1891 and residing at 3rd & Market St., Seaford, DE; working at Diamond State Telephone Co.; Goldie May Price at same address is listed as someone who will always know his address.

Joseph married Goldie Mae Thompson, daughter of Harvey Alexander Thompson and Martha, on Jan 15, 1916 in Seaford, Sussex, DE. (Goldie Mae Thompson was born in Mar 1894, died in 1947 and was buried in Seaford Odd Fellows Cmtry.). The cause of her death was cancer.