Elizabeth (Buffington) DePriest (1806 - 1884)

Born 6 Apr 1806 in Meigs County, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Isaac Casey DePriest — married 15 Feb 1827 in Illinois, United States

Descendants

Died 15 Sep 1884 at age 78 in Birch Tree, Shannon County, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth was born in 1806 to Abraham Buffington (born 9 APR 1784 in Hampshire Co, Virginia) and Margaret Ward (born about 1787 in Maryland). She was a native of Blenerhasset Island where Aaron Burr was said to have formed the conspiracy against the US.

She married Isaac C. DEPRIEST (born 2 APR 1807 in Smith Co, Tennessee, United States) on 15 FEB 1827 in Jefferson Co, Illinois. The couple was married by Joseph Pace, Esquire.

Children:

1. ABRAHAM M. DePRIEST, born 1830, IL; married Apr 6, 1851, Oregon Co., Mo. to Polly Huddleston (daug of Charles or Nathan); m 2nd June 6, 1853, Oregon Co. to Elizabeth J. Adin; Lt. in Confederate Army, Mo 4th Inf, Co D. He was a Justice of the Peace; d June 2, 1857, buried DePriest-Brown Cem.
2. AMANDA MELVINA DePRIEST, born 1832, IL; married Wallace Mahan, Aug 16, 1857, Oregon Co.
3. GREENE S. DePRIEST, born Jan 1834, IL; married June 3, 1858, Oregon Co. to Catherine Taylor (by Nathan Huddleston, J.P.); farmer in Oregon Co, Mo; buried Bethlehem Cem.
4. ISAAC W. DePRIEST, born 1835, IL; married Menareans Smith, Oct. 24, 1853, Oregon Co, Mo. (by Charles Huddleston, J.P.)
5. ASA C. DePRIEST, born Feb 18, 1838, IL; bur. DePriest-Brown Cem.
6. LLOYD R. DePRIEST, 1839-1860 (21 years old); bur. DePriest-Brown Cem. Lloyd was stabbed at a party or gathering of some kind and died with his head in his sister, Margaret’s lap. This newspaper article may be about his murder: "John L. Thomas is jailed for the murder of a Depriest in Feb. of 1860, is set free on bail, and disappears. The last record of him is a reward posted by the Governor of Missouri for his recapture."
7. MARGARET SUSAN DePRIEST, born Feb 13, 1842, Oregon Co, Missouri; married Wm. R. Hess, Oct 5, 1859, Shannon Co, Mo; d Aug 12, 1914, Carterville, Jasper Co, Mo; Children:
8. FRANCES REBEKAH DePRIEST, born Oct 5, 1844, Missouri; married James Weaver; d about 1864 (she reached over a fence to pick up corn cobs for kindling before her baby was born, ruptured a blood vessel and hemorrhaged to death; she was 20 years old); bur. DePriest-Brown Cem.
9. JOHN HAYDEN/Harvey DePRIEST, born Oct 5, 1844, Thomasville, Mo (Rebekah’s twin); Civil War, Confederate Army, Mo 4th Inf, Co D; captured at Vicksburg & paroled. He went with father to Ill. in 1863 where he married 1866 Lydia Gregory; moved back to Shannon Co, Mo. 1867; d Apr 16, 1915, bur. DePriest Brown Cem; Children:
10. WILLIAM C. DePRIEST, born 1847, Mo; d 1861 (14 years old), buried DePriest-Brown Cemetery

Either LLOYD or WILLIAM (probably Lloyd) was stabbed at a party or gathering of some kind and died with his head in his sister, Margaret’s lap. “JOHN L. THOMAS is jailed for the murder of a Depriest in Feb. of 1860, is set free on bail, and disappears. The last record of him is a reward posted by the Governor of Missouri for his recapture.”

One census also names as children: ROY C., b 1837, and MARION, b 1857.

Elizabeth died in 1884, age 78. Isaac had died in 1878.
Both buried in the Brown-Depriest Cemetery, Birch Tree, Shannon, Missouri. Find A Grave: Memorial #8708697

Sources

• Family of Isaac and Elizabeth De Priest

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