Clark County IL Archives Obits.....Briscoe, Sophia 1876
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MARSHALL MESSENGER
18-MAY-1876

   We are called upon to write the obituary notice of Mrs. Sophia Briscoe, wife of Henry 
Briscoe, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Nichols.   For several months past, she has 
been a victim to the dreadful malady-consumption-and on the evening of the 4th just at 
10 o'clock breathed her last.   Mrs. Briscoe was one of the most amiable ladies of her day 
and where ever she lived she won a host of friends.   During her married life, she has 
lived in the towns of Marshall, Martinsville and Westfield and no one had more tried 
friends than she.   Always kind, patient, forbearing, a loving wife, a devoted mother.   
During her illness she bore her suffering with Christian fortitude and ever in the most 
trying hour that sweet smile so common to her in health, would come and go when 
talking to her friends.   She died in full hope of a blessed immortality.   She told her 
mother that she was fully prepared to die, and just a short time before she died, she said 
to her husband "I hate to leave you, but the angels have come and I must go."   Her 
funeral was preached by the Rev. C.B. Dawson at the residence, Joseph Briscoe.   And a 
large concourse of people followed her to her resting place. 

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