Person:Emma Savidge (1)

Obituary

[Newspaper clipping, without citations, found on ancestry.com and transcribed here by RMC]

Last Rites Held for Mrs. Emma Briggs

Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral home for Mrs. Emma Briggs, 81. Mrs. Briggs, formerly of 115 West St., St. Marys, had been a resident of the Roselawn Nursing Home for the past two and one-half years. She succumbed at Roselawn Home at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday. Dec. 23.

She was born March 25, 1878, in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, a daughter of William F. and Emma (Stelz) Savidge. On April 8, 1900, she was married to Dr. Harry L. Briggs, who died February [?], 1947.

She was a member of the Wayne St. Methodist Church in St. Marys, and Hawthorne Lodge 119 of the Order of the Eastern Star, St. Marys.

Surviving are two nieces, Mrs. Ed (Gladys) Reynolds of Spencerville, and Mrs. Richard (Mildred) Kill of Delphos; and a nephew, Alfred E. Savidge, of Spencerville.

Rev. John T. Miller officiated at last rites and interment was in the Spencerville Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Murray Griffin, Wayne Putman, Vernon Kill, Dale Savidge, and Don and Steven Barnes.

Emma (Savidge) Briggs' Funeral Card

Sisters, Emma & Carrie

Savidge family c 1910

L-R: Dr Harry Briggs, Corilla Henry Liebenthal, Samuel Savidge, Nettie Louth Savidge, Emma Savidge Briggs, Carl Kimpel

Siblings: Samuel, Emma & Carrie

L-R: Samuel Savidge, Nettie Louth Savidge, Carl Kimpel, Carrie Savidge Kimpel, Corrilla Henry Liebenthal, Emma Savidge Briggs, Harry Briggs

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Briggs, Emma Estella Savidge, in Ashton, Violet Reynolds - Collection
   Misc. items.

   Funeral card; public auction flyer (30 Nov 1968); BibleEmma Briggs signed the front of her Bible on Feb 15, 1959, and wrote information in the sections under Births, Marriages, and Deaths. Her Bible was found in the home of her great-neice, Violet (Reynolds) Ashton, a granddaughter of Emma's brother, Samuel, in Venedocia, Van Wert Co., Ohio, in July 2011, and is now in the possession of Violet's grandson, Jonathan W. Medaugh, in Corning, Perry Co., Ohio.

2. ↑ Emma E. Briggs, in Find A Grave.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Savidge, William F., in Wyandot, Ohio, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   1880.

   Salem, Wyandot County, Ohio. HOH: William F. Savidge, 37; h/o Emma, 38; f/o...EMMA SAVIDGE, 2, b. abt 1878 in Ohio.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Briggs, Harry L., in Auglaize, Ohio, United States. 1940 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   6-22 142 6B 58, 1940.

   St. Marys City, Ward 1, Auglaize County, Ohio. HOH: Harry L. Briggs, 68; h/o EMMA E. E. BRIGGS, 61, b. abt 1879 in Ohio; Emma's sister, Carrie Kimpel, 65,

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Briggs, Harry, in Auglaize, Ohio, United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   1930.

   St. Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio. HOH: Harry Briggs, 55; h/o EMMA, 52, b. abt 1878 in Ohio; her father b. in Ohio; her mother b. in Pennsylvania.

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Briggs, H. L., in Auglaize, Ohio, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T625)
   1920.

   St. Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio. HOH: H.L. Briggs, 47; h/o Emma E., 41, b. abt 1879 in Ohio; son-in-law of Emma Swidge, 80, widowed.

7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Briggs, Emma E., in Ohio. Department of Health. Death index, 1908-1944. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983, 1992, 1995)
   23 Dec 1969.

   EMMA E. BRIGGS, 91, widowed, b. 1878, d. 23 Dec 1969 in Allen County, Ohio in a long-term care facility; she had resided in Allen County.