Virginia Lee was the first precious child and the only daughter of James Trenton and Nina Edith (Jones) DePreste. She was born prematurely due to her mother's illness with the pandemic Spanish Influenza. Virginia was only 25 days old when she died from pneumonia. (Her death certificate reflects the most commonly found spelling of the surname DePriest.)
..."The first wave of the influenza began, according to historians, just over 100 miles from Missouri at Camp Funston in Kansas in March 1918, with thousands of soldiers falling sick and 38 dying. Historians believe that influenza arrived at the military basses in Missouri in October of 1918, then spread throughout the state from there..."
[https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/missouri/influenza-pandemic-1918-mo/]
Rest well and peacefully little Virginia, Davis Cemetery is a fine old family cemetery and you rest among some of your earliest settler ancestors.
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James and Nina's youngest son, James Biffel "Jimmy J.B." DePreste was also buried at Davis Cemetery in 1944, but in the 1970's his mother had him re-interred at Miller Memorial Gardens where he now rests next to his parents. Their mother also wished to have little Virginia Lee moved to Miller Memorial Gardens at that time, but was advised against it as her burial had been so long ago.
..."The first wave of the influenza began, according to historians, just over 100 miles from Missouri at Camp Funston in Kansas in March 1918, with thousands of soldiers falling sick and 38 dying. Historians believe that influenza arrived at the military basses in Missouri in October of 1918, then spread throughout the state from there..."
[https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/missouri/influenza-pandemic-1918-mo/]
Rest well and peacefully little Virginia, Davis Cemetery is a fine old family cemetery and you rest among some of your earliest settler ancestors.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
James and Nina's youngest son, James Biffel "Jimmy J.B." DePreste was also buried at Davis Cemetery in 1944, but in the 1970's his mother had him re-interred at Miller Memorial Gardens where he now rests next to his parents. Their mother also wished to have little Virginia Lee moved to Miller Memorial Gardens at that time, but was advised against it as her burial had been so long ago.
Virginia Lee was the first precious child and the only daughter of James Trenton and Nina Edith (Jones) DePreste. She was born prematurely due to her mother's illness with the pandemic Spanish Influenza. Virginia was only 25 days old when she died from pneumonia. (Her death certificate reflects the most commonly found spelling of the surname DePriest.)
..."The first wave of the influenza began, according to historians, just over 100 miles from Missouri at Camp Funston in Kansas in March 1918, with thousands of soldiers falling sick and 38 dying. Historians believe that influenza arrived at the military basses in Missouri in October of 1918, then spread throughout the state from there..."
[https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/missouri/influenza-pandemic-1918-mo/]
Rest well and peacefully little Virginia, Davis Cemetery is a fine old family cemetery and you rest among some of your earliest settler ancestors.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
James and Nina's youngest son, James Biffel "Jimmy J.B." DePreste was also buried at Davis Cemetery in 1944, but in the 1970's his mother had him re-interred at Miller Memorial Gardens where he now rests next to his parents. Their mother also wished to have little Virginia Lee moved to Miller Memorial Gardens at that time, but was advised against it as her burial had been so long ago.
..."The first wave of the influenza began, according to historians, just over 100 miles from Missouri at Camp Funston in Kansas in March 1918, with thousands of soldiers falling sick and 38 dying. Historians believe that influenza arrived at the military basses in Missouri in October of 1918, then spread throughout the state from there..."
[https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/missouri/influenza-pandemic-1918-mo/]
Rest well and peacefully little Virginia, Davis Cemetery is a fine old family cemetery and you rest among some of your earliest settler ancestors.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
James and Nina's youngest son, James Biffel "Jimmy J.B." DePreste was also buried at Davis Cemetery in 1944, but in the 1970's his mother had him re-interred at Miller Memorial Gardens where he now rests next to his parents. Their mother also wished to have little Virginia Lee moved to Miller Memorial Gardens at that time, but was advised against it as her burial had been so long ago.
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