Annie Briggs

Jacob and Leanna Briggs had a fourth child, Cully, who was born in Mississippi in 1875. But after that it's a mystery.  He lived until at least age 5 because he shows up on the 1880 census with his family, but so far no other record of him has been found.

So Jacob's next child is with his second wife, Tina.  Jacob and Tina's oldest child is LaHanna "Annie" Briggs born 5 Jan 1879 in Mississippi.  Annie married William Edward Ivey in 1893 in Lamar, Texas.  (Note: William had two children from a previous marriage, Belle and William. Remember that for later.)  I'm not sure what brought Annie to Texas - several of the Briggs family members show up in this part of Texas around this time. Anyway, Annie and William had three children:

• Ed George Ivey (1894-1973)

• Laura Ruth Ivey-Mathews (1895-1928)

• Oma Ivey-McCay (1901-1962)

I'm not sure whether William died or he and Annie divorced, but Annie married James Monroe Jackson on 8 Apr 1907 in Woodland, TX. (This, incidentally, is around the time and place her mother, Tiny, died.) Annie and James had five children:

• Mack Delton Jackson (1908-1976)

• James Otis Jackson (1910-1955)

• Mary Belle Jackson-Killian-Kinnamon (1912-1988)

• Hilda Farie Lee Jackson (1917-1918)

• J.P. "Jack" Jackson (1920-1972)

Mack Delton Jackson is the father of Cousin Cathy.  She is the one who has given me most of my information on the Briggs family.  In fact, if I hadn't stumbled onto a picture she posted online I would never have found out anything about my Briggs line (because my great-grandma Myrtle's death certificate was leading me on a wild goose chase).  So I am immensely grateful to her!

Annie passed away 26 December 1933 in Kosoma, Oklahoma.  This is a family story that Cousin Cathy shared with me about her grandma's death: 

She and my grandfather were living in a little house they had built on Doug Briggs property.  She had helped Doug kill hogs during the day, came home and put food in the oven to warm up, and went out to milk her cow.  Her oldest son, Ed Ivey, was in the house.  When she didn’t come back he went out to look at her and she had just leaned back against the wall on her stool and was dead.  The milk wasn’t even spilled.  My mother said Annie had complained to her of a pain in her side the last time she saw her.

Remember when I mentioned that William Ivey had two children when he and Annie got married?  Well, William's daughter, Belle, married James Monroe Jackson's brother, Dode Jackson.  Since James Monroe Jackson was Annie's second husband, there's no actual familial relationship, but interesting nonetheless.