Vital Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Full name | Price Vinton Orrill |
| Born | 2 Aug 1898, Wilmot, Kansas |
| Died | 26 Dec 1990, Blue Springs, Missouri |
| Father | Frederick Thomas Orrill (1869-1926) |
| Mother | Mary Alvira Woodward Orrill (1866-1950) |
| Sisters | Nina Leta Wells (half-sister, mother's 1st marriage); Velvalie "Velva" Orrill Adams (m. Tom Adams, Edith's brother); Alice Ada Orrill Parsons (1896-1966, m. Alva Parsons) |
| Brother | Clinton Woodward "Jack" Orrill (1900-1926) |
| Spouse | Edith Blanche Adams (b. 19 Sep 1898; d. Mar 1993, Blue Springs, MO; m. 15 Dec 1918, Atlanta, Cowley County, KS) |
| Children | Dale Adams Orrill (1920-1973, FaG #231348098); CDR Donald Price Orrill (1926-2006, FaG #39772511); Judith Diane Orrill Bruder (1935-2020, FaG #210240477) |
| Occupation | Rigger, Armco Inc. (35 years); bricklayer |
| Burial | Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence, Jackson County, Missouri |
Biography
Price Vinton Orrill was born on 2 August 1898 in Wilmot, Kansas, the second child of Frederick Thomas Orrill and Mary Alvira Woodward. He married Edith Blanch Adams on 15 December 1918 in Atlanta, Cowley County, Kansas, and the couple eventually settled in Blue Township, Jackson County, Missouri, where they lived from 1930 onward in the same region as Gale Fulghum. Price worked for Armco Inc. as a rigger for 35 years and also worked as a bricklayer, and he outlived his younger brother Clinton, Gale Fulghum's biological father, by more than 64 years.
Price and Gale lived in Jackson County simultaneously for decades: Price in Blue Springs, Gale in Independence. Yet Gary Fulghum, Gale's son, never knew Price existed. The Orrill name had been erased when Fred Fulghum adopted Gale, and apparently no one in the family maintained or mentioned the connection. An entire branch of Gale's paternal family lived nearby, unknown to him or at least unspoken of to his son. (Source: Gary Fulghum, oral testimony to Jordan Fulghum, March 2026. Confidence: Moderate Signal, single oral source.)
Price died on 26 December 1990 in Blue Springs, Missouri, and is buried at Mount Washington Cemetery in Independence.
Photographs
Orrill Family, c. 1917
!Orrill-Family.jpg Orrill family. Back row standing left to right is Clinton (Jack) Orrill, Velvalie (Velva) Orrill, and Price Vinton Orrill. Front row seated is Alice Orrill, Mary Alvira Woodward Orrill (Mollie, aka Doll) and Nina Leta Wells Orrill. (Father Frederick Thomas Orrill rarely had his picture taken.) Abt 1917. Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
Wedding Day, 15 December 1918
!Adams-Price-Edith.jpg Price Vinton Orrill and Edith Blanche Adams on their wedding day, December 15, 1918. They were married at Edith's home. (Parents: Henry Green Adams and Ida Tice Adams.) Price arrived late for their wedding. It was cold, wet and muddy, and their car (believed to be a 1917 Chevrolet) got stuck in the mud. Price had the preacher with him. They arrived late and covered with mud. Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
Hunting at the Orrill Farm, c. 1914-1917
!hunters.jpg Taken beside the house on the Orrill farm after a day's hunting. Left to right: Alva Parsons (he married Alice Orrill), Jack Orrill (name was Clinton Orrill, a brother to Price Orrill), Jim Deichman (married Eunice Adams), Tom Adams (brother to Edith and Eunice Adams, and he married Velva Orrill) and the last is Price Vinton Orrill. (1914-1917.) Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
The Orrill Farm, c. 1918
!Orrill-Farm-1918.jpg Orrill farm the day Price V. Orrill left it, about 1918. Windmill, barn, silo, and garage Frederick Thomas Orrill built to house his new Model T Ford. (The Virgil Spencers have lived there about the last 45 years and have recently sold the farm.) Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
Price Orrill and Herman Cox at a Picnic
!Orrill-Cox.jpg Price V. Orrill and Herman Cox eating watermelon on the running board of car at a picnic. Edith Adams (Orrill later) said she was so sick at that picnic she thought she would die. Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
Price and Edith with Friends, c. 1917
!frontofcar.jpg Small picture of Price V. Orrill (in hat) and Edith Blanche Adams on his left beside Price's car with friends unidentified. Abt 1917. Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
Orrill Sisters at Wilmot Hotel
!Orrill-sisters.jpg Old Wilmot hotel which Price's grandmother owned (Eliza Miller Orrill). Five Wilmot girls in front of it: 1. Fern Lewis, a cousin of the Orrills; 2. Alice Orrill, Price's sister; 3. Velva Orrill, Price's sister; 4. Nina Orrill, Price's oldest and half-sister; 5. Beula Manker, a friend. The picture was on a postcard (no stamp) from Miss Fern Lewis to Dollie (Mary Alvira Orrill, mother to Nina, Velva, and Alice) and Emmett Lewis. Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
Henry Green Adams and Ida Tice Adams Family, c. 1914-1915
!Adams-Family.jpg Henry Green Adams and Ida Tice Adams family. Back row standing left to right (adults) are: Augusta Margarite Adams (Gussie), John Thomas Adams (Tom), Clyde Adams, Ralph Melvin Adams (Mel), Edith Blanche Adams. Front row left to right: Eunice Gertrude Adams, Hazel Camille Adams (hairbow), Henry Green Adams, Florence Fay Adams (hairbow), Ida Tice Adams (mother) and Eula Adams. (Abt 1914-1915.) Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County. Edith (back row, far right) is Price's future wife.
Henry Green Adams and Ida Tice Adams on Their Porch
!Adams-Henry-Ida.jpg Henry Green Adams and Ida Tice Adams standing on their porch. (Before 1931, Ida's death year.) Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County. Price's in-laws.
Adams Children Coming Home from School, c. 1906-1910
!buggy.jpg Bringing the Adams children home from the Summit School House. Date unknown, probably between 1906-1910. Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
Summit School, c. 1910-1911
!Prairie-View-School.jpg Summit School abt 1910-1911. Edith Blanche Adams has an "x" above her head. Others unidentified. Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
Thomas Tice and Elena Augusta Wallace Tice
!Tice-Thomas-Elena.jpg Thomas Tice and Elena Augusta Wallace Tice. Thomas homesteaded in Cowley County after the Civil War. (Edith Blanche Adams Orrill's maternal grandparents.) Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
Tice Family Tombstones
!Tice-Adams-tombstones.jpg Tice family tombstones. Source: KSGenWeb Cowley County.
KSGenWeb Biographical Details
The following details come from the KSGenWeb Cowley County page, written by a descendant of Price and Edith (likely a grandchild).
Price was Edith's first visitor after she was born on September 19, 1898; the two families lived about a mile apart near Wilmot. Price attended Prairie View School while Edith attended Summit School, but they attended the same church. Their romance developed through encounters at a hayride and in the Adams family's grape arbor.
After their December 1918 wedding, the couple initially attempted farming in Cowley County but eventually relocated to Kansas City, Missouri. During their Kansas years, Edith drove the family car, though an incident involving a runaway vehicle discouraged her from continuing. Price and Edith were married for 72 years (1918-1990). Price died in 1990 at age 92, and Edith passed in March 1993 at age 94 in Blue Springs, Missouri.