This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hall-Huffman-Briggs Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1715 Message Board Post: Barry Adage Jan. 13, 1913 Sarah Elizabeth Briggs Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of James and Elizabeth Hall, was born in Belmont Co. Ohio, July 10, 1832, and died at the home of her daughter Mrs. John Martin, in Barry, Ill. on Jan. 13, 1913, aged 80 years, 6 months and 2 days. She was united in marriage to John M. Huffman May 22, 1855, and two years later came to Barry, where she has made her home for fifty-six years. Here her children were born- one daughter, Mrs. John Martin of Barry, and two sons, Beecher, of Barry and James Carl of Sioux City, Iowa. Her husband was a union soldier during the civil war and was killed at Vicksburg on July 11, 1863. On June 11, 1871, Mrs. Huffman was married to Charles Briggs, a vetern of the civil war, who died at their home in Barry, March 15, 1910. In early life Mrs. Briggs united with Methodist Episcopal church at Sewellsville, Ohio, and on coming to Barry she and her husband united with the First M.E. church here. The funeral services will be held at the M.E. Church, but the time has not been announced as relatives notified of her death have not been heard from.