Price, Lucie Clift, 1900-1983

Lucie Clift Price: Lucie Clift Price was born in Davis, Oklahoma (then Indian Territory) on 27 August 1900, the elder child of William Henry Clift (1871-1935) and Ellen Dunn Clift (1876-1907). Both parents had originally been teachers, and had met in 1895 in Pottsboro, Texas, where Will Clift had been principal and Maggie Dunn taught elocution at the local school. The story of their romance is documented in a series of letters exchanged in 1896 and 1897 which were published by their daughter as Monuments of the Past: Letters of Maggie Dunn and William Henry Clift (Austin: Privately printed, 1976).

Not long after their marriage in 1897 both parents discontinued teaching and moved to Oklahoma, where Will Clift began a career in business. A second child, Charles Henry Clift (1903-1977) was born near Hastings, Oklahoma. After the death of Maggie Clift at Hastings in 1907, Lucie Clift lived with her maternal grandparents in Austin, Texas, where she graduated from high school. After attending a girl's finishing school, Martha Washington College, in Abingdon, Virginia, Lucie Clift returned to Austin for two years at the University of Texas before transferring to the University of Missouri at Columbia, where she received a B.A. degree in 1922.

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