Lt. Prince returned to the United States in April 1919 and worked as a salesman for Smith Hardware in Goldsboro, N.C..
A few months later, he drowned in a flooded field near the junction of the Little and Neuse rivers near Goldsboro on July 26, 1919. He was trying to rescue Jefferson Merritt, age 12, Mr. Prince held the boy's head above the rampaging waters and saved him, but drowned in the process.
David Prince was posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal for Heroism.
He is buried next to his parents at Goldsboro's Willow Dale Cemetery.
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