| Show Briggs 1 Pioneer Tomato Raiser Dies I 3 Ephraim Briggs 82 who assist assist- d his father in the introduction of the tomato which ia is now so exten exten- extensively raised in this region died at his home borne in Bountiful of a heart J at attack ck which he suffered a week before I He lie was also one of the last liv- liv living liv living J ing men who vho helped haul granite I from the tho in Little Cot Cot- CotI Cottonwood Cot I with which the Salt Sah Lake Lak j 1 temple was built He lie was a florist an and market market- marke market I I p gardner I IA A Mr Briggs was born September J 13 1851 1854 at Hebron Wis Vis son of I Thomas and Ann Kirkham Briggs i lie He came to Utah with his parents A Aby by arriving in Salt Snit Lake Lake- Lake City S j 1 1 1 l Two City on Sept days later the family moved to Bountiful Bountiful ful where he has since r i it t 1 7 Dec 28 8 1 1871 ho married Mary MaryEvans Evans Evang and July 15 1860 Ann Evans her sister in the Endow Endow- Endowment EndowS Endowment S ment meat House in Salt Lako City J I I Mrs Mary ary E Briggs Brigga died in 1900 10 and Mrs Ann E Briggs about a year r year ago S Mr Brings Brigg w wa was the father of 1 19 children 11 of whom six sons and 1 five daughters rs survive They are aN Il Ephraim Briggs Briges Blackfoot Frank FrankI I Bri s Mrs Amy Lallis Levi I Briggs Jesse Briggs Brings and Harold 1 t Briggs of Bount Bountiful ul George Brigg Brig J j Layton Mrs May B Most Moss Clear Clear- Clearfield field Clear 1 field Mrs Irs Lucy B Brown Brown Spanish Fork Mrs Rebecca E Larra Larrabee Salt Lake City and Mrs La L Vera B B Thompson Thomp on Hiawatha lIe He is also survived by a brother Thomas ts Clearfield and a sister Mrs Martha Bi B Do Downs SAlt Lake City 67 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren 1411 Funeral will be held h ld Fri Friday Friday I jq day at 2 p m m in the Bountiful ward chapel with Bishop Quayle i Cannon presiding In Interment will willbe be in in the tha Bountiful cemetery |
