At 15, Joseph started learning the weavers trade. While doing this, Jacob Bowman met him and asked him to go to work for him. Jacob had a daughter of 18, and he thought Joseph would make her a fine husband. Within a year they were wed. They lived in a large stone house next to Crow's School house at Blackrock PA. The Price/Bowman Stone House was constructed by rolling large native stones down from Blackrock Hill to the house location and setting them in place. It originally was used as the Bowman House and as the Church house for the German Baptist Brethren congregation.

Wooden Dividers were put up to separate the church and living quarters.

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The Bowmans and the Prices left the Lutheran church at this time, after a squabble about a musical instrument that they had given to the church. The Price family had been Lutheran, Anna Spitler Whisler owned an ancient Lutheran Catechism printed in 1707 in Hanover, Germany. After the split, the Bowmans and the Prices were baptised, June 12, 1869 into the Black Rock German Baptist Brethren congregation.

m. Sarah Bowman

Children: Mary Ellen, Theodore B., Joseph Jackson, Sarah Elizabeth, Susanna, Emma, Jacob R., Lydia Amy, Amanda Jane, George Washington.

In 1876 the Black Rock Church was built, and the Bowman's stone house was no longer used as the church. The dividers that served to make the home into a church were removed.  For the remainder of their lives, both families, the Prices and Bowmans took all their meals together in the basement of the Stone house. 

Blackrock Forest at Blackrock, Pennsylvania

This is the exact location of the Price and Bowman Stone House. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden Society did a study of this forest, and in their notes you find:

Mixed oak slopes are found throughout Black Rock Forest on moderate slopes. Sites along Continental Road, south of the Stone House, and on the slopes of Black Rock Hill and Mount Misery are easily accessible.

Most of the oak woods in the forest were cleared or severely thinned during the previous century. The trees we see now sprouted from the remaining roots and stumps. Their trunks are usually between 70 and 100 years old.There are very few seedlings and saplings of oak in these woodlands. Predation by insects, small mammals, and deer limit the number of viable acorns and often make it impossible for seedlings to mature. Where seedlings occur they are usually of sugar maple, indicating that these woodlands may be slowly being replaced by sugar maple woodland.