Kalamazoo County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Briggs, Elery 
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Richard Branch mikalama@yahoo.com September 28, 2005, 7:36 pm

Cemetery:           Sand Lake Cemetery, Pavilion Township
Name:               Elery Briggs

Date Of Photograph: August 11, 1999
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Elery Fuller Briggs  died Sept 20  1887  Aged 76 years  3 months  28 days -
Elery (also sometimes spelled Ellery or Eleary) was born May 22, 1811 in Oneida
County NY (or Livingston County).  In 1884 he married the widow of Thomas
Branch, Jane Burstow Branch. 
"The funeral was largely attended on Thursday at 11 a.m. Rev. D. H. Reiter
(Congregational Church of Vicksburg), by request of deceased, officiating, and
the remains were interred at the Smith burying ground."
"In 1839 he came to Michigan, and for nearly half a century his industries have
been given to his adopted state. By faithful continued labor he acquired a fair
competency of this world's goods (leaving an estate valued at $20,000 - 30,000).
 "His wife and older brother,Zeb ,remain at the old home.Another of Kalamazoo
County's pioneers has gone. Peace to his ashes."

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