Clearfield County PA Archives Obituaries.....Briggs, Mary Ellen Kroah June 20, 1934
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Brockway (PA) Record
BROCKWAY (PA) RECORD, Friday, June 22, 1934

MRS. ISAIAH BRIGGS

Mrs. Isaiah Briggs, of this place, died at the Maple Avenue Hospital in 
DuBois, Wednesday evening at 10:35 from diabetes with complications. Mrs. 
Briggs has not been well for several months and two weeks before her demise 
her condition became critical and she was removed to the hospital. All efforts 
to save her proved of no avail. Mrs. Briggs had resided in this vicinity since 
childhood and by her quiet consistent Christian life has won the respect of 
all who knew her. She has been a faithful wife and a devoted mother, and her 
loss is a sad blow to her family.

Mary Ellen Kroah was born in Brookville, July 12, 1874, the daughter of the 
late W. Thos. and Angeline Kroah. The family came here where Mr. Kroah was 
interested in lumbering when the deceased was a child. Here she met and was 
united in marriage with Isaiah Briggs, of Warsaw, in Brookville, August 1, 
1894.

Mrs. Briggs was the mother of thirteen children, one of whom died in infancy. 
Surviving are her husband, 6 daughters and six sons as follows: Nellie, Mrs. 
Floyd Chittester, William, Wesley, Helen, Mrs. Chas. Thompson; Clayton; 
Milton; Floyd and Evelyn, all of Brockway; Lucille, Mrs. Albert Renwick, of 
Sligo; Grace, Mrs. I. W. Keefer, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Joseph, of Johnsonburg; 
and Lillian, Mrs. W. B. Cooper, of Akron; and by twenty-one grandchildren.

Also the following brothers and sisters, Thomas Kroah, of Bradford; George, 
Alongo and Stephen, of Akron, O., Louis and Mrs. Charles Danley, of Princeton, 
W. Va., Mrs. John Kurtz, of New York City and J. T. Kroah and Mrs. R. J. 
Moody, of this place.

Mrs. Briggs was a member of the M. E. Church at this place. Funeral services 
were conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. O. Calhoun at the bereaved home Sunday 
afternoon at three o'clock and interment was made in Wildwood cemetery. A 
wealth of beautiful flowers expressed the sympathy of friends and neighbors 
and the esteem in which deceased was held in the community, as did the large 
company who attended the funeral services.

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