Elizabeth (Howard) Deatherage (1790 - 1858)

Born 25 Mar 1790 in Madison, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Amos Deatherage — married 19 Mar 1810 in Madison, Kentucky, United States

Died 24 Nov 1858 at age 68 in Howard, Hardin, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth "Betsey: Howard, the daughter of Benjamin Howard and Rebecca Turner was born 25 Mar 1790 in Madison, Kentucky, United States.

She married Amos DEATHERAGE 19 Mar 1810 in Madison, Kentucky when she was 20 years old. ^[1] In 1817, they immigrated to Howard county, Missouri. In 1820 the family settled in section 5, of this township, where they lived until 1824, when they settled in section 7, on the farm now known as "Elkin place." Subsequently, in 1836, Amos and Elizabeth settled permanently where they lived out their lives.

Amos was prominently identified with the early improvement of the county, and was looked upon as among the first of the brave-hearted, enterprising pioneers who cleared away the wilderness and made the country a fitting home for an intelligent and prosperous people.

Amos and Elizabeth were the parents of Colonel Bird DEATHERAGE and seven other children. Colonel Bird DEATHERAGE was born in Madison county, Kentucky, December 26, 1811, but was reared and educated in Howard county, Missouri. The first official position he ever held was in 1846, when he was elected to and afterwards filled the office of constable, serving until the summer of 1852. He was then elected sheriff of Howard county, and served in that office until 1856. In the fall of 1856 he was chosen representative from this county to the legislature, and in 1858 re-elected for the same position; his two terms of service filling a period of four hundred days of actual duty in that body.

Amos died 24 September 1840, and Elizabeth on 24 November 1858 in Hardin, Howard, Missouri. They were both buried at Deatherage Family Cemetery in Howard County, Missouri, United States of America ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5ZZ-MJZ : 9 March 2021), Amos Deathridge and Elizabeth Howard, Mar 1810; citing Marriage, Madison, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 183,307.
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72701738/elizabeth-deatherage