Eli Jackson DePriest, Born in Missouri, Died in Arkansas
I'm looking to exchange information on the family of Eli Jackson DePriest. This is some of what I know about him:
Eli DePrist never told his family that he was married to Clellie Alice Goss. Matter of fact, Eli ran off when Clellie was pregnant with their child. He simply one day while working the field left and never returned. No one within Clellie's family ever heard from him again. However, it's known Eli later married a woman by the name of Hazel Kell. It's said he became a preacher, and was one of the founding father's of the Church of God.
Moreover, a family rumor has Eli possibly married at one time to another woman by the name of Sarah.
He is buried at Oak Forest Cemetery, Lawrence County, Arkansas. The cemetery records have his birth date as June 18, 1884, with a death date of January 30, 1965.
The above cemetery record is contrary to the 1900 census of Montier Township, Shannon County, Missouri as being born in June 1886.
Anyway, Eli Depriest is my great grandfather, and I would like to exchange family information. My name is Leah Pearson, and my email address is: [email protected]