52 Cousins~Eleazer Burke “Elzy” Dees

 John Burk Dease was born 3 March 1782 in County Westmeath, Ireland. He swore in a Disposition that he became an inhabitant of Washington County in the Mississippi territory in eighteen hundred. He also states that he was 21 years of age on 3 March 1802 making his birth to be 3 March 1782. This 1808 Disposition was found in the American State Papers, House of Representatives, 10th Congress, 2nd Session; Public Lands: Volume 1; Page 705. 

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Daniel Johnson and James Powel, chain carriers for the preceding survey, were sworn before Ransom Harwell, Esq. Justice of the Peace. James Powel and Daniel Johnson were produced as witnesses, and were duly sworn, and, being interrogated by the Board, both testified, that they were not directly or indirectly interested in the establishment of this claim; that, sometime in the fall of the year 1802, John Dease, the present claimant, entered upon the land now claimed, and commenced the building of a mill; that he had, from that time to the present, continued the prosecution of said work; that he had built a house upon said land, for the accommodation of himself and workmen, and the last year cultivated a small garden; that he was twenty-one years of age on the 3d of March, 1803.The Board ordered that the case be postponed for consideration.

John Burk Dease married Bridget Gilliand, the widow of William Burke. To this union were born 5 children: 4 sons and a daughter. 

Their 3rd born son was Eleazer Burke “Elzy” Dees born about 1814 in Alabama. Elzy Dees married Sarah Temperance Hayden about 1854. This marriage date is based on the birth of their known first born; a son, Bailey B. Dees on 12 May 1855 in Louisiana. 

Eleazer Burke “Elzy” Dees and Sarah Temperance Hayden had a large family of eleven (11) children. The 4th child of 4 sons born in succession was a young lad given the name of his father - Eleazer Burke “Elzy” Dees, Jr. 

Eleazer Burke “Elzy” Dees, Jr. was born about 1864 in Louisiana most likely in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Elzy married Margaret Antoinette “Maggie” Brinkley, daughter of James A. and Mary E. Brinkley.  His occupation is listed as Hardware Merchant, Hardware Store Employee and the Town Marshall in 1920.  

   We are authorized to announce ELZEY B DEES of the Third ward as a candidate for sheriff of Tangipahoa parish subject to the action of the Democratic party. https://www.newspapers.com/image/851202452/

 Elzy Burke Deese and Margaret Antoinette Brinkley had the following children:

i. Wallace Adams Deese was born on 1 Aug 1900. He died on 26 Nov 1979 at the age of 79.

ii. Margaret Temperance Deese, born 5 Jul 1903, Amite, Tangipahoa, Louisiana, United States; married Martin Joseph Ducote; died 2 Feb 1993, Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States.

        iii. Elizabeth Deese, born 1905. She died on 26 Nov. 1907, age of 2.

Amite City, La., Nov. 27.

Elizabeth Dees, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Elzy Dees, died last night. The funeral took place today, services being conducted by Rev. J. R. G. Hewlett. Interment was made in the City Cemetery.

iv. Elzey Burke Deese Jr. was born on 17 Nov 1908. He died on 7 Jan 1982 at the age of 73.

v. Catherine Deese, born 7 Aug 1918; married Rayford Elias Conerly Jr., 25 Dec 1942; died 28 May 2009.

Eleazer Burke “Elzy” Dees, Jr.  is my 2nd Cousin 3X Removed. 

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1. 1870, Ward 2, Washington Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Ward 1, Washington, Louisiana, Page: #213A & 213B, Line: #38, Dwelling: #7, Family: #7, Household of Eleazer DEAS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: online July 2024); citing National Archives M593_535.

2. 1880 U. S. Census, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, 4th Ward, Tangipahoa, Louisiana, enumeration district (ED) 0181, Page: #487A (Stamped); Line: #15, Dwelling: #9, Family: #65, Household of Elzy DEES; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com: online July 2024); citing National Archives Microfilm T9.

3. 1900 U. S. Census, Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Amite, Tangipahoa, Louisiana, enumeration district (ED) 0090, Page: #208B (Stamped); Line: #58, Dwelling: #31, Family: #32, Household of Elzey B. DEES; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com: online July 2024); citing National Archives Microfilm T623.

4. 1910 U. S. Census, Police Jury Ward 9, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Police Jury Ward 3, Tangipahoa, Louisiana, enumeration district (ED) 0111, Page: #117B(Stamped); Line: #69, Dwelling: #188, Family: #203, Household of Elzey B. DEES; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com: online July 2024); citing National Archives Microfilm T624.

5. 1920 U. S. Census, Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, enumeration district (ED) 0118, Page: #59A (Stamped); Line: #20, Dwelling: #95, Family: #103, Household of Elsie DEER [DEES]; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com: online July 2024); citing National Archives Microfilm T625.

6. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed February 2024); Memorial page for Elzy Burke Dees; (1864–1920); Find a Grave memorial # 43460972, Citing Amite Cemetery; Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, USA.

7. "Dees-Brinkley," Marriage, The Semi-Weekly Times-Democrat, New Orleans, Louisiana, 4 July 1899, Page 3, column 3; Digital On-Line Archives, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/: online October 2024); https://www.newspapers.com/.

8. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database, "Record, Margaret Antoinette “Maggie” Brinkley Dees (31 January 1879–30 August 1975), Memorial # 144090109.

9. ."Mrs. Margaret Dees," Death Notice, The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, Louisiana, 30 August 1975, Page 3, column 2; Digital On-Line Archives, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/: online October 2024); https://www.newspapers.com/.

10. Baby Elizabeth's obituary courtesy of my fellow Genealogical Researcher J. Hampton.