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Young: Laura Elisha Briggs Blake Lusk, Sara Emily Briggs Cranney;
Bottom: Eliza Jane Briggs Bates, Susan N. (Suzie) Gentry Briggs, Dora Leona Briggs Pickett
Bulo Briggs and Daughters:
Back: (L-R) Lillie Severe and Laura Blake
Front: Ellare (Ella) Craner Pence, Bulo, Dora Pickett
Bulo Briggs holding
Kent Blackhurst and Enzley Pickett.
Nathan T. Porter Site
More ancestors' sites!
Bulo Lee Briggs
Bulo Lee Briggs Susan N. (Susie) Gentry
Summary: Bulo Lee Briggs, born 1854, Yancey Co., NC, to John Lee Briggs and Anna Melissa Garland, when almost 23, married almost 18 years old Susan N. (Susie) Gentry, 15 Sept. 1875, in Flagpond, Unicoi, TN. In September of 1890, Bulo and Susie joined the LDS Church 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 Susie died in 1912. He married twice more, and was killed by a train in 1941 while visiting relatives in Tennessee. (Cousins! Please help me add to this life sketch!)
My Line of Descent !
Bulo Lee Briggs and Susie Gentry
Dora Leona Briggs and Mannie Pickett
Louisa Pickett and Sarel Orien Porter
Roger Sarel Porter and Margaret Earlene Brown
Four Generations! Laura Blake, son Lloyd, grandson Gary, great-grandson, Tim (4 years old), taken the night before Gary left for Viet Nam!
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