Price lived at Hillside, a large mansion she and her husband had built in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Price was born in New York City on October 2, 1874, to Colonel Henry de Boisfeuillet Clay, a U.S. Infantry officer and Civil War veteran, and Harriet Field.
[2][3] She studied at Notre Dame Academy in Baltimore before moving to Durham, North Carolina to attend Watts Hospital Training School for Nurses.
[4][5] On August 22, 1897, she married insurance businessman Julian Price at Mechum River Farm in Virginia.
[5] In 1982, her son endowed the Ethel Clay Price Scholarship for Continuing Education at Notre Dame of Maryland University.