Louisa J Briery d/o John Gardner Briery and Sarah Almira Osgood Briery died
from a rattlesnake bite. She is buried on land of her parents on top of a hill in
Twin Creek, Winfield Twp., Osborne Co., Kansas.
Obituary:
The Hays City Sentinel 10 Aug 1877
(Name of daughter not listed but from death date it was Louisa J. Briery and not sister Letty P. Briery FAG 202847107, who died from rattlesnake bit.)
A daughter of Mr. Briery, of Osborne County, thirteen years old, was bitten by a rattlesnake, on Saturday, about two miles from home. She found her way to a pool, where she tried to extract the poison from her foot by buring it in the soft mud, and where she was found, Sunday afternoon. She had remained all the time alone, and experienced the symptoms of a horrible death approaching. She died
that evening.
Thank you to Frank Means of Greenwood, Mo., for taking the tombstone picture of
Louisa J., and her sisters: Hattie and Luella Briery.

1870 Federal Census
Waterville Twp. Marshall Co., Kansas
Post Office Barrett, 14 July 1870
John G. Briery 41 M W Farmer b. Maine
Sarah A Briery 38 Keeping House b. Maine
Frank G Briery 15 at home b. WI
Hannah A Briery 11 at home b. WI
Lincoln C Briery 9 at home b. WI
Nathaniel L Briery 8 at home b. WI
Louisa Briery 7 at home b. WI
Lettie P Briery 5 at home b. WI
Perry Briery 3 at home b. WI
John H Briery 4/12 at home b. WI ( Wisconsin or March in
WatervilleTwp., Marshall Co.,
Kansas)
I believe all the children with the question of John H. Briery b. in Mosinee, Marathon Co., Kansas.

A "Thank You" to Frank Means who was out pheasant hunting and his friends told him
about the three graves on top of the hill and he drove back from Greenwood, Mo., to
take the tombstone pictures of Louisa J., Luella, and Hattie Briery.