The brickmakers of the area were a tightly-knit group, intermarried and mostly Methodist by faith. Many, like the Prices, came from Bridgwater in Somerset, England. The Prices married into the Simpson family as well as the Kerrs and Billings.
When Lilia Lyla Billingsley Reed was born on December 21, 1890, in Todmorden, East York, Ontario, her father, Henry, was 30, and her mother, Mary, was 29. They were market gardeners. She married Frederick Simpson Price on July 7, 1910, in Toronto, Ontario. He was a brick manufacturer and built a sturdy Edwardian classic style home for his wife at 666 Greenwood Avenue, no longer standing.
Frederick Simpson Price passed away in 1949. Lyla became a nurse and lived near other Prices on Logan Avenue (the Logans were also brickmakers). She died on June 1, 1971, at the age of 80 and like so many from Midway, is buried in St. John Norway Cemetery.
The Midway Historical Society of Toronto 