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Fetna Price was born at "Oaky Grove" Plantation in Wake County, NC the youngest of four known children of wealthy planter, Thomas Price Jr. and Rebecca Robertson. On her paternal side, she is descended from her great grandfather, Edward Price, who came to NC from Virginia around 1740, settling in Johnston County. On her maternal side, she is descended from her grandfather Thomas Robertson, who also came to NC from Brunswick Virginia in the mid-to-late 1770's.

Fetna was about 18 when she married the 28-year old Rev. Bennett Taylor Blake. The couple resided in Southampton County Virginia where their four children were born: Laura Blake (1829-1855), Mary Rebecca Blake (1831-1839), John Gray Blake (1833-1836) and Bennett T. Blake Jr. (1835-1854). Fetna suffered the loss of two of her children before she herself died at age 26, just about 7 months after the birth of her last child.

Fetna Price is reportedly buried with her husband, and her sister, marked only by the gravestone shown here; although the cemetery does have 3 unmarked vaults, that might possibly hold her remains.

Her husband, Rev. Bennett Blake, was left a widower with two children, and within the year, came to North Carolina and married Fetna's older sister, Sheherezade Price, the widow of wealthy Wake County planter, Thomas Mial, Jr.

Of her two surviving children, Laura Blake married Prof. William Clark Doub in 1851, and had three known children. Son, Bennett T. Blake, Jr., never married and died in 1854 in Raleigh.