It's always sad to come across young death when doing genealogy.
Mary Elizabeth Puryear was the daughter of John William Puryear and Mary Elizabeth Eubank. On her tombstone, she's incorrectly listed as being born on November 30th, 1857 - birth records indicate she was born March 21st, 1857, instead.
She married Lawrence Theodore Denton on January 15th, 1879, and it wasn't long before she was pregnant with their first child. Unfortunately, I've found no record of said child so it ultimately had to be a miscarriage or stillbirth.
On November 25th, 1879, she died of Puerperal Fever which is a fever caused by a uterine infection after childbirth. She was only 22 years of age. (21 if you go by her tombstone but.. again.. it has the wrong date.) She is buried in McClure Cemetery in Boxville (Union County) Kentucky. The tombstone photograph credit goes to fellow Find-a-Graver David Melton.
Lawrence went on to re-marry Nollie Taylor and have a passel of children.
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