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Susanah “Susy, Susa” <I>Gentry</I> Briggs

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Susanah “Susy, Susa” Gentry Briggs

Birth
Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
Death
3 Dec 1912 (aged 55)
Marion, Cassia County, Idaho, USA
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Marion, Cassia County, Idaho, USA Add to Map
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The family has thought her name was Susan N. Gentry, but that appears now to be an error:
Bulo's bible records her name twice as Susa in his own hand and once as Susanah as dictated to his daughter in law by Bulo. 1860 census: Susa (mis-indexed as Susan); 1870 census: Susanah; 1880 Census: Susen; 1900 census: Susa; 1910 Census: Susa; Idaho Death record only lists last name: Gentry; Headstone has Susy.

Susa was born 21 September 1857 in Buncombe county, NC, to John Patton Gentry and Jane Edwards. She married Bulo Lee Briggs, born 1854, Yancey Co., NC, to John Lee Briggs and Anna Melissa Garland , when she was almost 18 years old, 15 Sept. 1875, in Flagpond, Unicoi, Tennessee. In September of 1890, Bulo and Susy joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tennessee. He was a school teacher, and at 37 years of age moved his family of 9 children "out west" in 1891. The family stayed temporarily in Oakley, Idaho, with A. Bates, who had been a Mormon missionary in the south. The last two children were born in Idaho and most of them joined the LDS church. Bulo is said to have suffered from Depression, especially after Susy died in 1912. Their Children: Mary Jane Briggs (1876-1876), Celia Ann Briggs Adams (1876-1899), Dora Leona Briggs Pickett (1877-1956), Eliza Jane Briggs Bates (1879-1912), Oscar Lee Briggs (1882-1923), Lillie Elizabeth Briggs Severe (1882-1923), Louella Bailey Briggs Cummins (1885-1963), Ezekiel Lafayette Briggs (1887-1915), Ellare Bertha Briggs Craner Pence (1889-1953), Sarah Emily Briggs Cranney (1891-1923), and Laura Elisha Briggs Blake Lusk (1894-1977).
The family has thought her name was Susan N. Gentry, but that appears now to be an error:
Bulo's bible records her name twice as Susa in his own hand and once as Susanah as dictated to his daughter in law by Bulo. 1860 census: Susa (mis-indexed as Susan); 1870 census: Susanah; 1880 Census: Susen; 1900 census: Susa; 1910 Census: Susa; Idaho Death record only lists last name: Gentry; Headstone has Susy.

Susa was born 21 September 1857 in Buncombe county, NC, to John Patton Gentry and Jane Edwards. She married Bulo Lee Briggs, born 1854, Yancey Co., NC, to John Lee Briggs and Anna Melissa Garland , when she was almost 18 years old, 15 Sept. 1875, in Flagpond, Unicoi, Tennessee. In September of 1890, Bulo and Susy joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tennessee. He was a school teacher, and at 37 years of age moved his family of 9 children "out west" in 1891. The family stayed temporarily in Oakley, Idaho, with A. Bates, who had been a Mormon missionary in the south. The last two children were born in Idaho and most of them joined the LDS church. Bulo is said to have suffered from Depression, especially after Susy died in 1912. Their Children: Mary Jane Briggs (1876-1876), Celia Ann Briggs Adams (1876-1899), Dora Leona Briggs Pickett (1877-1956), Eliza Jane Briggs Bates (1879-1912), Oscar Lee Briggs (1882-1923), Lillie Elizabeth Briggs Severe (1882-1923), Louella Bailey Briggs Cummins (1885-1963), Ezekiel Lafayette Briggs (1887-1915), Ellare Bertha Briggs Craner Pence (1889-1953), Sarah Emily Briggs Cranney (1891-1923), and Laura Elisha Briggs Blake Lusk (1894-1977).

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