Illinois Family Group Sheet for the Bert Austin Briggs Family
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Submitted by: Deborah Elam
Email address: MsNavalCPO@aol.com
Husband: Bert Austin BRIGGS
Birthdate: September 13, 1887
Birthplace: Lancaster, Missouri
Death date: June 28, 1968
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Father: Robert Wroe Briggs
Mother: Lydia E. (?)Masters
Marriage date: September 14, 1907
Marriage place: Lancaster, Missouri
Wife: Adah DANIELS
Birthdate: July 30, 1889
Birthplace: RFD Schuyler Co., Missouri
Death date: September 15, 1976
Place of death: Belwood Nursing Home, Peoria, Illinois
Father: Ulysses Eugene Daniels
Mother: Josephine Griggs
CHILDREN
Child No. 1: Dorthea Maxine Briggs
Sex: F
Birthdate: May 30, 1909
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Marriage date: September 27, 1928
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Spouse's name: Floyd Searle, Linus Mies, Raymond Croisant
Child No. 2: Lydia Josephine Briggs
Sex: F
Birthdate: June 14, 1911
Birthplace: Linn Co., Bucklin, Missouri
Death date: October 28, 1974
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Marriage date: February (or Oct?) 14, 1933
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Spouse's name: Michael Antonacci
Child No. 3: Roxie Juanita Briggs
Sex: F
Birthdate: May 7, 1913
Birthplace: Badger Co., Badger, S. Dakota
Death date: September 28, 2000
Place of death: Rose Garden Nursing Home (?), Peoria, Illinois
Marriage date: October 14, 1933
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Spouse's name: Sylvester Joseph Entrican
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Sex: M
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Child No. 5: Donald Elmore Briggs
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Birthdate: July 23, 1920
Birthplace: Hanna City, Illinois
Death date: October 13, 1964
Place of death: Blue Island Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Marriage date: August 17, 1941
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Sex: M
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Sex: M
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Child No. 8: Vada Mae Briggs
Sex: F
Birthdate: July 2, 1924
Birthplace: Fairbury, Illinois
Death date: June 1964
Place of death: Killed in accident in Motley, Minnesota by Staples
Marriage date: October 31, 1942
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Child No. 8: Ada Ruth Briggs
Sex: F
Birthdate: June 4, 1925
Birthplace: Fairbury, Illinois
Death date: October 23, 1976
Place of death: Peoria (?), Illinois
Marriage date: October 4, 1942
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Spouse's name: Robert Dean Hovey
Documentation: Bert Austin Briggs was adopted by R.W.(Bob) and Lydia
Briggs. He was left on their porch with $1,000.00 cash as a baby. He
lived there several years before they adopted him. All information was
provided by Roxie Juanita Briggs (now deceased) both orally and visually
from newspaper clippings and writings in her Bible.