OBIT: Amanda E. (GALLAGHER) BRIGGS, 1917, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm __________________________________________ POISON KILLS MOTHER OF TWO LOCAL MEN Mrs. Amanda E. Briggs, of Huntingdon, Dies from Arsenic Poisoning at Her Home Mrs. Amanda E. Briggs, of Huntingdon, mother of Ira E. Briggs, and M. R. Briggs, both of this city, is dead at her home as a result of arsenic poisoning, supposedly taken by mistake for medicine Tuesday night. Mrs. Briggs had been in ill health for some time. She was the wife of Thomas Briggs, of 611 Moore street, and was the daughter of Hugh and Hannah Gallagher, deceased. She was born April 8, 1851 at Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, but spent the last ten years in Huntingdon. Four children, Mrs. John Mock, of Huntingdon, Jesse Briggs, of Burnt Cabins, and the two men residing in this city, survive, with two brothers and two sisters of the dead woman. She was a member of the First Baptist church of Huntingdon. Funeral services will be held this afternoon from her late residence and burial will follow in Riverview cemetery. Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday morning, March 2, 1917