Editing Degory Priest (section)

== Death and burial ==
Priest died early in the first winter, on January 1, 1621, of the "general sickness". He was aged about 42 years.<ref name="plimoth.org"/><ref name="Banks p. 75"/><ref name="Johnson p. 198"/>

He was buried likely sometime in January 1621 in Cole's Hill Burial Ground in Plymouth, most probably in an unmarked grave, as was the custom that first winter.  Along with many others who died in the winter of 1620–1621, his name is memorialized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb, located on [[Cole's Hill]] in Plymouth.