Clarence P. Briggs (1883-1907)

BRIGGS, DUTTON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/4/2017 at 12:30:46

From Nevada Representative May 6, 1907

OBITUARY

CLARENCE P. BRIGGS

Mrs. Jennie Briggs and Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Dutton arrived home Saturday forenoon with the body of the late Clarence P. Briggs, youngest son of Mrs. Briggs and brother of Mrs. Dutton. After the death of Mr. Briggs it became known here, for the first time, among his friends that he had at Phoenix, where he died, been received late the Catholic church, and it followed that the funeral was held on Saturday afternoon at St. Patrick's church in this city, Rev. Father Nichols conducting it. The funeral was very largely attended by members of the church and friends of the deceased and the interment was of special dispensation in the family lot in the Nevada cemetery.

Clarence P. Briggs, son of Jennie Briggs and her late husband, Otis Briggs, was born in Nevada, Iowa, August 26, 1883. He lived here with his parent and attended the public schools till his seventeenth year at which age he attended the Western Military Academy of Alton, Illinois, where he remained two years and won a medal offered by the faculty for perfection in scholarship. He returned to Nevada to take up a position in the Farmers Bank which he filled with great efficiency for two years, when failing health compelled him to seek a more favorable climate. During the past four years he sought to regain his health by residing in California and Arizona but without success and although his long continued poor health was due to consumption, his death was the result of a complication of Brights disease, and he passed away at Phoenix, Arizona, April 28, 1907. His passing away at the Sister's Hospital, administered to by loving friends and his mother, Mrs. Jennie Briggs. His amiable and social qualities readily won him many friends at Phoenix, as well as at Santa Ana, California, and here at his early and final home.

Clarence had been at Phoenix during the winter and until early in April, when he went to the home of his mother and himself at Santa Ana, California. He remained there just two weeks when his rapidly failing condition caused him to go to Phoenix again, his mother accompanying him; and they arrived there on Tuesday, April 23. He was, however, then near his end; and he was taken to the hospital where he had been before and where he died on the following Sunday. He left no will, and under law of inheritance his share of his father's estate will revert to his mother. He expressed, however, a verbal request that his property should be hers during her life-time and should then be willed to her for the benefit of consumptives in such a way as to her shall seem most advantageous, and this request Mrs. Briggs expects most faithfully to carry out.