Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Emma Jane (Gibbs), Briggs April 18, 1884
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Portland Observer – Wednesday 30 April 1884
Mrs. Artemus Briggs – It was a shock to a very wide circle of friends and 
acquaintances, when, on the 18th inst., Mrs. Briggs was suddenly, as in a 
moment, called from this life.  For notwithstanding she had been seriously 
ailing for many months, she still appeared to have so much vitality remaining 
that none were prepared to hear that after a decidedly better day than usual, 
and a plan for an evening ride, she was, after a hearty supper, only able to 
go to her room a moment and thence out to her lounge, when the breaking of an 
abscess in her lung left her barely time to ask for air, and she at once 
expired.

Her maiden name was Emma Jane Gibbs; her birth place, Tyringham, Mass., where 
she first saw the light, March 18th 1834.  She lived therefore just one month 
over half a century.  In the year 1836, her father, Mr. John M. Biggs, removed 
to Garrettsville, Portage Co., Ohio, where she grew to womanhood.  At the age 
of 18, she united with the Garrettsville Baptist Church.  At 20 she with her 
parents removed to Portland, Mich., where on her 21st birthday; she became the 
wife of Mr. Artemus Briggs, of Eagle.  Their union was blessed with three 
daughters; two of whom survive, to mourn a greatly beloved mother.  The older 
of these be the wife of Mr. Allen Griffin.

Mrs. Briggs, was a woman of remarkable energy and force of character.  Before 
pulmonary disease became apparent, she did what few at her time of life would 
have done, taking a trip to Montana.  So great a change of climate developed 
the insidious malady, and she came home to die.  Her removal is deeply felt by 
a very wide circle of friends who prized her deeply for many sterling 
qualities.  Both from being a woman of a great deal of character and 
usefulness and from being so long a resident of this region, she is missed to 
an extraordinary degree.  This was attested by the vast concourse that 
assembled at her funeral, when a discourse was preached by the pastor of the 
Portland Baptist Church, from Rev. XX:12.  “And the books were opened; and 
another book was opened, which is the book of life.”

The deceased left behind her a comforting evidence of having rested her heart 
and hope in childlike trust, solely on the sacrifice and righteousness of the 
crucified redeemer.




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