Orson M. Briggs, the first child of James B. Briggs and Polly Tyler White was born ca. 1843, in Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York. In 1850, Orson M. Briggs was living in Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York, with his parents, and step-brothers. His father died in 1854 and we have been unable to locate him or his mother in 1855 as yet. In 1860, he is living with his step-brother, Daniel White, and Daniel's wife Lucy Jane Rowbotham, along with a child, Polly M. White and a hired hand, Robert Rowbotham, age 21, a brother of Lucy Jane Rowbotham from New York, still in Sandy Creek, Oswego County. We believe Orson M. Briggs died in Minnesota. He married Elizabeth Unknown Abt. 1864 in New York. She was born Abt. 1844 in New York. Orson and Elizabeth are found in 1880 in Graham Lake, Nobles County, Minnesota, where Orson is farming and Elizabeth is a homemaker. Willie Briggs, the son of Orson M. Briggs and Elizabeth Unknown was born ca. 1865 in New York. If you have any connection to this family, I would like to hear from you. John@Sissom.org John D. Sissom johnsissom@sbcglobal.net sola fida