Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

GEORGE I. BRIGGS, Muhlenburgh [sic] County, was born June 18, 1847, in
Williamson County, Tenn., and is the fifth of six children born to
Isaac W. and Dorothy M. (Bennett) Briggs, natives of North
Carolina, and of Scotch-Irish descent.  The mother of our subject
was a daughter of Dr. John Bennett, of North Carolina.  Isaac W.
Briggs was a merchant and school teacher in his early days.  George
I. Briggs' education was received at the Franklin Male and Female
Academy, at Franklin, Tenn., until the war broke out, when he
enlisted in September, 1862, in the Eleventh Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry; took part in the battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
before enlisting, while in the quartermaster's service; was at
the battle of Thompson Station; campaigns of Chattanooga and
Atlanta; Hood's campaign of Tennessee; battles of Franklin and
Nashville, and surrendered April, 1865, at Washington, Ga.;
returned home and farmed one year, when he engaged in mercantile
business, at Franklin, Tenn. for ten years.  In 1876, he engaged in
the manufacture of staves and lumber in Logan County, Ky.  In
1880, he located in Muhlenburg [sic] County, at Briggsville, engaged in
the stave and lumber trade and also in the mercantile business.
He and his brother J. B. Briggs, own three or four thousand acres
of timber land.  Mr. Briggs was married November, 1870, to Tillie
Harrison, of Williamson County, Tenn., a daughter of William and
Mary (Hughes) Harrison, of English descent.  To this union four
children were born: Anna James, Willie May, Tillie and Bettie B.
Mr. and Mrs. Briggs are members of the Methodist Church, and he
is a member of the K. of P.

Briggs Bennett Harrison Hughes
=
Williamson-TN NC Logan-KY

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