A.D. Price

Portrait Courtesy of Meredith Carrington and Barry O'Keefe

A.D. PRICE AVENUE
3rd Street from Leigh Street to Jackson Street

Alfred D. Price was born in 1860 and was raised in Hanover County, Virginia. He settled in Richmond, Virginia in the late 1870s and opened several real estate investments and businesses including a blacksmith shop, livery stable, and funeral home in Jackson Ward called A.D. Price Funeral Establishment. He served as president of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia and as a board member with the Mechanics Savings Bank. He would become one of the first funeral directors to receive a state embalming license in 1894. He departed on April 9, 1921 and is buried at Evergreen Cemetery. His son, A.D. Price Jr., continued the legacy of the funeral home.