Individual Details

John Briles, a farmer, came to Indiana in the fall of 1865, and located on a farm four and one-half miles from Fairmount. He was a Union man in sentiment, and bitterly opposed to both slavery and to secession. He lost considerable property by reas on of his devotion to the Union while he was living in the south, the Confederate troops devastating his farm and carrying off everything that was portable. John Briles after coming to Grant County, Indiana continued to cultivate the soil, and die d on his Liberty township farm at the age of sixty-four years; his widow, born in 1824, still lives on the home farm in Liberty Township. The children born to John and Elizabeth Briles were three in number, Jacob being the eldest; Noah is a farme r in Madison county, Indiana; and Elwood E., the youngest of the family, is now a student of law in Fairmount.

Biographical Memoirs of Grant County, Indiana Chicago: Bowen & County, 1901, PG 463.

Birth	13 Jun 1822
Marriage	28 Dec 1842	Randolph County - Elizabeth Young
Death	5 Dec 1886
Burial		Little Ridge Friends Cemetery, Grant Co, Indiana, United States

Spouse	Elizabeth Young (1824 - 1915)
Child	Hannah R Briles (1840 - 1890)
Child	Jacob Briles (1845 - 1920)
Child	Noah Briles (1847 - )
Child	Thomas Briles (1862 - )
Child	Elwood Eleazer "Edwin" Briles (1865 - 1921)

Father	Jacob Briles (1799 - 1871)
Mother	Catherine Rollins (1801 - 1877)
Sibling	Ezra Briles (1824 - 1892)
Sibling	Mary Briles (1827 - )
Sibling	William Jacob Briles (1829 - 1887)
Sibling	Jacob Briles (1832 - )
Sibling	Henry Briles (1835 - 1903)
Sibling	Elizabeth Briles (1838 - )
Sibling	Catherine Briles (1841 - 1876)
Sibling	Nancy Briles (1843 - )