Individual Details

Joplin Globe, Joplin, Missouri, Sunday, April 27, 1958, Page 39, Col. 3: Lamar, Mo.---Mrs. Ella Briggs, Liberal, Mo., route 1 died at 9:35 a.m. Saturday at her home. She was 89 years old. Mrs. Briggs came to this area with her parents, who were early settlers in Barton county in the Duval community in 1880. She has lived on the family farm most of her life. Her husband, A. L. Briggs, preceded her in death in 1939. Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Eula Shepherd of Plainfield, Ill., Mrs. Gertrude McClure of Frontenac, Kan., Mrs. Bertha Wyrick of Pittsburg, Kan., Mrs. Able Avery of the home, Mrs. Leona Lane of Mindenmines, Mo., and Mrs. Cleona Overstreet of Liberal, Mo. Also surviving is one brother, J. K. Simmons of Long Beach, Calif., 15 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday from the Pleasant View Baptist church, the Rev. C. J. Askins officiating. Burial will be in the Nashville cemetery under direction of the Chiles funeral home of Lamar.

Birth	6 Jan 1869	Henry Co., Missouri
Marriage	1887	Arthur Lee Briggs
Death	26 Apr 1958	Nashville, Barton Co., Missouri
Burial		Nashville Cemetery, Nashville, Barton Co., Missouri

Spouse	Arthur Lee Briggs (1864 - 1939)
Child	Eula Viola Briggs (1888 - 1976)
Child	Gertrude Mae Briggs (1889 - 1975)
Child	Bertha Beatrice Briggs (1891 - 1986)
Child	Mabel Lee Briggs (1894 - 1975)
Child	Arthur Lee Briggs Jr. (1898 - 1944)
Child	Margaret Briggs (1900 - 1954)
Child	Mary Leona Briggs (1905 - 1970)
Child	Sarah Cleona Briggs (1905 - 1984)

Father	Manson Boone Simmons (1837 - 1918)
Mother	Sarah A. Johnston (1841 - 1909)