Clarence Richard De Priest (1900 - abt. 1989)

Born 8 Jan 1900 in Salina, Saline County, Kansas, United States

Ancestors

Died about 14 Nov 1989 at about age 89 in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, United States

Biography

Clarence De Priest is a part of US Black heritage.

Clarence Richard De Priest was born in 1900 in Kansas. He was the son of Sidney De Priest and Flora Hensley. In 1900 the family lived in Salina, Kansas.^[1] In 1910 they lived in Smoky Hill, Kansas.^[2]

When he registered in September 1918, he was still living in Salina with his parents.^[3]

In 1920 he was living with his mother and younger sister in Pasadena, California.^[4]

Research notes

There is a Clarence DePriest of the same age, hotel bus boy, born in Kansas, living with his wife Mildred in the household of Pete Perry in Topeka, Kansas in 1930.^[5] In 1940 Clarence De Priest is a janitor and lives in Hutchinson City, Reno County, Kansas with his wife Mildred.^[6] According to an unsourced Find A Grave memorial, he died in 1989 and was buried in Fairlawn Burial Park in Hutchinson. His wife's maiden name was Tyler.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMYK-G21 : accessed 29 March 2021), Clarence Depriest in household of Sydney Depriest, Salina city Ward 3, Saline, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 122, sheet 18A, family 381, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,498.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2Z8-SXN : accessed 29 March 2021), Clarence Depriest in household of S Depriest, Smoky Hill, Saline, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 140, sheet 11A, family 205, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 455; FHL microfilm 1,374,468.
3. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-91HV-99V1?cc=1968530&wc=9FCT-W38%3A928311101%2C928684001 : 25 August 2019), Kansas > Salina County; A-Smock, Walter > image 1079 of 4521; citing NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH7Z-PD1 : 31 January 2021), Clarence Depriest in entry for Flora Depriest, 1920.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X77X-8F6 : accessed 29 March 2021), Clarence Deprest in household of Pete Perry, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 26, sheet 17B, line 70, family 497, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 722; FHL microfilm 2,340,457.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR2S-VY9 : 16 February 2020), Clarence De Priest, Hutchinson, Hutchinson City, Reno, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 78-31B, sheet 1B, line 63, family 14, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1253.
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #131317703, database and images (accessed 29 March 2021), memorial page for Clarence E DePriest (unknown–14 Nov 1989), citing Fairlawn Burial Park, Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, USA ; Maintained by Diane Hurst (contributor 48381432).

• "Kansas State Census, 1905", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPJH-S3HF : 23 September 2019), Clarence Depriest, 1905.
• "Kansas State Census, 1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGFY-XFLZ : 13 October 2019), Clarence Depriest in household of Sidney Depriest, Smoky Hill Township, Saline, Kansas, United States; citing Smoky Hill Township, Saline, Kansas, United States, 41, 15, Kansas Historical Society, Topeka.