This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Briley, Shook Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1563 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. Nov. 5, 1931. "Thurman News".--William A. Briley, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Briley, was born in Clinton county, Kentucky, June 13, 1853, and passed away very suddenly at his home in Macedonia October 28, 1931. He was one of a large family of children and the last member to pass on. When he was 6 years old he came with his parents by steamboat to St. Joseph in 1864 and came via ox team to Iowa. They established their home on his father's farm near Thurman where all eleven children were born. In 1909 he moved with his family to Mills county where he lived until a few months ago when he and his wife moved to Macedonia. Besides his wife he leaves three daughters, Mrs. Ruby Shook of Malvern, Nanette Briley of Council Bluffs and Esther of San Francisco; six sons, Walter of Glenwood, Anthony and Oscar of Malvern, Joe of San Francisco, George of Pine River, Minnesotra, and Robert of Macedonia. The body was brought to Thurman Sunday afternoon where funeral services were held in the Methodist church, conducted by Elder M. H. Craig of S.t Joseph.