Saturday, December 12, 2015

Mary C. "Mollie" Briggs

The next few posts I'm going to go through some of the children of Jacob and Tina Briggs.

It appears Jacob may have had an oldest son named Richard P. (born 1860 in Mississippi), but I have no other information about him at this time and I don't know of anyone else who does either.

Next in line was Jacob and Leanna's daughter Mary C. "Mollie" who was born 10 Jan 1870 in Mississippi. Mollie married Thomas Andrew Wilson on 29 May 1886 in Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma. Mollie was Thomas's third wife (but not his last). Mollie and Thomas had 5 (possibly 6) known children: Katie(?), Effie Edna, Eunice Claudie, Ida May/Mae, Thomas Lee (died in infancy), and Dewey/Duey Fontain.

Left to right
Eunice Claudie Wilson
Thomas Wilson holding Ida May Wilson
Mary C. "Molly" Briggs holding Dewey F. Wilson
Effie Wilson
Above is a picture of the family I found on the OK Gen Web site.  The identification is also from that site.

Effie Edna was born 3 May 1887 in Indian Territory, OK.

Eunice Claudie was born 3 Jun 1889 in Butler (Indian Territory), OK.

Ida May/Mae was born 6 Mar 1893 also in Butler.

Dewey/Duey Fontain was born in December 1897 in Dunbar (Indian Territory), OK.

Cousin Cathy told me a family story that was related to her that Mollie was pregnant at the time of her death. She tragically fell out of a window which killed her and the baby.  This was on 1 Jan 1901 in Pushmataha County, OK.