JABEZ SPRIGGS - Biography

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This biography appears on pages 674 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


JABEZ SPRIGGS, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Kansasville,, son of John Spriggs,
of Northamptonshire, England, who married in England, Mary Nurser; they
had seven children - Josiah, Joseph, Joshua, Jeshua, Sarah, Jabez and
John. Mrs. Spriggs died in England in 1842. He married again in England
in 1846 Sarah Bull, and bad one child- Naomi. He died in Dover in 1861;
his wife died there in 1865; Joshua and Jabez are the only children now
living in Dover. Jabez was born in Northamptonshire in 1838, and came
with his parents to Burlington, Racine Co., Wis., in 1848. Married in
Yorkville in February, 1866, Isabella Cary, of Dover, and has two
children - Archibald E. and Harvey J. He owns 145 acres of land in
Sections 16, 17, 20, with residence and barns on Section 17. They attend
the Bible Christian Church. Joshua was born in same place as Jabez, in
1834, and came with his parents in 1848. He married April 6, 1864, in
Dover, Jane Dolan, and has three children.