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Eliza "Lidie" Blakeley (Graham) Price Ainsworth (b. March 4, 1873 Chester County, Pennsylvania - d. December 23, 1963, Newbury County, South Carolina). Eliza was married on December 24, 1890 at Chester, Pennsylvania to Hugh H. Price of Black Falls, Wisconsin. Hugh was a U.S. Congressman. He was elected as a Representative for Wisconsin after the death of his father, Representative William T. Price. They moved to Arizona in 1899. In February 1900 Eliza was appointed by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution as the 1st State Regent for Arizona. She served as the State Regent from 1900-1902. They moved back to Denver, Colorado, where Hugh passed away on December 25, 1904. They had one son. On February 1, 1913, she married Charles Franklin Ainsworth, of Phoenix. He was Attorney General of the Arizona Territory from 1892-1902. He died May 18, 1931 in Phoenix. She then moved to New Berry, South Carolina to be near her son.

Eliza was married to Hugh Price while she lived in Prescott, and that is why "Price" is given as her last name in this record.  When he died after they left Prescott, she married Charles Ainsworth, which was her married name from 1913.  Some records give her married name as "Rice" when she was married to Hugh, but this does not seem to be correct.