Brief Life History of Silas Hugh
When Silas Hugh Briggs was born in 1816, in Lysander, Onondaga, New York, United States, his father, Hugh Lackey Briggs, was 20 and his mother, Polly Damon, was 20. He married Sarah Adams in 1842, in Wisconsin, United States. He died on 21 June 1881, in Martin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 65.
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- S H Briggs, "United States Census, 1870"
- S H Briggs, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"
- Silas Briggs, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Brigg, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja), the northern and Scottish word for bridge, for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
History: The surname Briggs is found chiefly in West Yorkshire. A family of gentry have held lands at Keighley in West Yorkshire continuously for 500 years. The mathematician Henry Briggs (1561–1631), who invented logarithms, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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