He married first Wife #1: Mary Emily (Wright) Deaton

Wife #2: Mrs. Harriett Olivia (McCarty) Deaton
Married: 07/18/1880

Author of "History of Indian Fights on the Frontier"

The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), January 5, 1900
Obituary.
Died. – At 10 o’clock a. m. Dec. 18th, 1899, at his home in Carlton, Texas, after a long lingering illness, Elias Deaton, aged sixty-six years, four months and fourteen days. He had lived in Texas fifty-six years and was one of the pioneers who helped to drive the red man from the counties of Bosque, Coryell, Erath, Hamilton, Comanche and Brown. He was the author of a little book on “Indian Fights & etc.” which give a thrilling account of his hardships and privations on the frontier. He was a resident of Hamilton county for twenty-four years. A member of Honey Creek Missionary Baptist church for twenty-three years, the only church to which he ever belonged and a deacon of the same.
His first marriage was to Mary E. Wright, Oct. 25th, 1856. Seven children were born to them, four of whom are yet living, one in Montana, one in Erath county and the other two near the old homestead in Hamilton county. The mother died March 4th, 1880, and the father married Mrs. H. O. McCarty, who has proven indeed to be a help-meet to her deceased husband and a mother to his children. To them no children were born. She survives her husband to mourn with his children. This companion and these children will ever cherish the memory of that kind and affectionate husband and loving father, as one they loved and honored, and his relatives and friend will miss him often, but all these sorrowing friends feel assured that their loss is his gain, and that he is
“Asleep with Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep,
A Calm, and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.”
His remains were interred in the Honey Creek cemetery, near his old home, where he had lived so long, with appropriate services, conducted by Elds. Warren Graham and J. J. Moore.
His Friend and Brother,
Jas. W. McKinzie