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Margaret Elizabeth <I>Harman</I> Briggs

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Margaret Elizabeth Harman Briggs

Birth
Cedar County, Iowa, USA
Death
18 Oct 1940 (aged 78)
Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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Block 64, Lot 4, Space 6
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MRS. WM. C. BRIGGS CALLED IN DEATH
Margaret E. Harman was born in Cedar County, Iowa, April 16, 1862, the daughter of Alexander and Margaret Harman, and passed away at her home in Eureka on October 18, 1940, at the age of 78 years, 6 months and 2 days. She moved with her parents to Kansas at the age of 2 years, settling near Qunicy on West Creek.

On December 22, 1880, she was united in marriage to William C. Briggs. To this union twelve children were born. Her devoted companion, two sons, Ervin and Louis, and four daughters, Golden Augustine, Grace Ann, Elta Ida, and Matilda Margaret, preceded her in death.

She is survived by six children, Addie Mae Neff, Nellie Sarah Rice, Bessie Julia French, Ernestine Clayden Barrier and Clifford William, all of Eureka, also Frances Florence LeGate, of Oklahoma City; one sister, Sarah Wolford, of Hamilton, Kansas; six brothers, Charles of Spokane, Washington, James, Superior, Montana, Frank, Durango, Colo., William, Eveningshade, Arkansas, Ernest, Alaska, and Melvin, Buffalo, Kans. Forty-seven grandchildren and thirty-three great grandchildren with other relatives and a host of friends are left to mourn her departure.

She was united with the German Baptist Church at an early age and was a faithful and devoted member of the same until the end of her life.

Mrs. Briggs was a beautiful spirit, a good neighbor, a loving mother and a devoted Christian worker.

Funeral service was held from the Barid Funeral Home at three o'clock Sunday afternoon, October 20th, conducted by Rev. Robert Schaechtele. Interment was in the Greenwood cemetery.

Contributed by Glenn Barrier [email protected]

MRS. WM. C. BRIGGS CALLED IN DEATH
Margaret E. Harman was born in Cedar County, Iowa, April 16, 1862, the daughter of Alexander and Margaret Harman, and passed away at her home in Eureka on October 18, 1940, at the age of 78 years, 6 months and 2 days. She moved with her parents to Kansas at the age of 2 years, settling near Qunicy on West Creek.

On December 22, 1880, she was united in marriage to William C. Briggs. To this union twelve children were born. Her devoted companion, two sons, Ervin and Louis, and four daughters, Golden Augustine, Grace Ann, Elta Ida, and Matilda Margaret, preceded her in death.

She is survived by six children, Addie Mae Neff, Nellie Sarah Rice, Bessie Julia French, Ernestine Clayden Barrier and Clifford William, all of Eureka, also Frances Florence LeGate, of Oklahoma City; one sister, Sarah Wolford, of Hamilton, Kansas; six brothers, Charles of Spokane, Washington, James, Superior, Montana, Frank, Durango, Colo., William, Eveningshade, Arkansas, Ernest, Alaska, and Melvin, Buffalo, Kans. Forty-seven grandchildren and thirty-three great grandchildren with other relatives and a host of friends are left to mourn her departure.

She was united with the German Baptist Church at an early age and was a faithful and devoted member of the same until the end of her life.

Mrs. Briggs was a beautiful spirit, a good neighbor, a loving mother and a devoted Christian worker.

Funeral service was held from the Barid Funeral Home at three o'clock Sunday afternoon, October 20th, conducted by Rev. Robert Schaechtele. Interment was in the Greenwood cemetery.

Contributed by Glenn Barrier [email protected]

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