CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  Eli T. Priest

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, page 180 

ELI T. PRIEST.

Eli T. Priest died at the residence of his daughter and son inlaw, Mr. 
and Mrs. D. R. Montgomery, in Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 15, 1907, in the
seventy-first year of his age. He was born in Monroe county, Miss., 
December 28, 1836, and moved to Texas years before the war.  In 1857 
he married Miss Cinderilla Burleson of Bastrop county, who died 
April 13, 1894; and after that time he led an unsettled life, part of 
the time with his six children, three sons and three daugh­ters, who 
survive him.  He and his brother, Robert Priest, yet surviving him 
and ten years younger, enlisted in the beginning of the War in 
Company B, 17th Texas Infantry, and served faithfully the four years 
through, being in many bat­tles together, in which both attested their
 devotion to the cause by suifering patiently many wounds received of 
a painful nature.  Robert Priest now resides at Smithville, Tex.  The 
deceased was a consistent member of the Baptist Church from boyhood, 
and he died as a Mason in good stand­ing.  He sleeps by the side of his 
good wife at Corsicana.