Briggs, Charles

Born: 1825-05-01 Randolph County, Illinois

Died: 1901-08-20 Kansas

Flourished:

Charles Briggs, farmer, enlisted as a private in Company E, First Regiment of Illinois Foot Volunteers in Belleville, Illinois on May 26, 1847 and served in the Mexican War until his company was mustered out at Alton, Illinois on October 14, 1848. Briggs moved to Kansas Territory in 1855 where he continued farming. He registered for the draft in Davis County, Kansas in 1863, but there is no further evidence that he actually served in the Civil War. In 1860, he owned real estate valued at $300 and possessed $2,145 in personal property. Briggs married Elizabeth Parberry Wingfield in 1864 and following her 1872 death he married Mary Peterson in 1873. He had two children with his first wife and four with his second.

Isaac H. Elliott, Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War, 1831-32, and in the Mexican War, 1846-8 (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, 1882), 216, 218; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Randolph County, IL, 43; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Davis County, KS Terr., 69; U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010); Kansas, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1811-1911, 28 November 1864, 30 December 1873, Geary County (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2016); U.S. Census Office, Ninth Census of the United States (1870), Davis County, KS, 11; U.S. Census Office, Twelfth Census of the United States (1900), Geary County, KS, 11; The Junction City Tribune (KS), 23 August 1901, 3:4; Gravestone, Humboldt Cemetery, Junction City, KS.