Julia E. Willey and Henry Waterhouse Briggs

HENRY WATERHOUSE BRIGGS was born August 25, 1819 in Rome, Oneida, New York,^{456, 6153} and died January 29, 1904.⁴⁵⁶ He is buried in Gavilan Hills Memorial Park, Gilroy, Santa Clara, California.^{456, 6143}

He married JULIA E. WILLEY on June 25, 1856 in Bloomfield, Davis, Iowa,⁶¹⁵³ daughter of GRACE MARIA STANLEY and OGDEN MOSELEY WILLEY. She was born May 4, 1828 in Geneseo, Livingston, New York,⁴⁵⁶ and died February 5, 1927 in Monterey County, California.³⁸⁹³ She is buried in Gavilan Hills Memorial Park, Gilroy, Santa Clara, California.⁴⁵⁶

• Descendant Reports
  • Samuel Stanley Descendant Report (Ancestor of Julia E. Willey)
  • Joseph Baker Descendant Report (Ancestor of Julia E. Willey)

Personal Information

• Henry Waterhouse Briggs was a member of the Presbyterian Church. ⁶¹⁴³

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Obituaries

San Francisco Call, January 30, 1904⁶¹⁴³

AGED PIONEER DIES AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS

GILROY, Jan. 29.—Judge H. W. Briggs died this morning at his home in Pacific Grove. He was stricken with apoplexy Wednesday night and never regained consciousness.

Judge Briggs was born in Rome, N. Y., August 25, 1819, and received his education in the schools of that State. he taught school in Tennessee, and later removed to Troy, Iowa, where he was appointed Postmaster and later Count Judge. He came to California in 1859, and purchased a tract of land at Berryessa, near San Jose. In November, 1860, he was elected to the State Legislature, and at the close of the session was appointed Register of the United States Land office at Visalia. He also conducted a mercantile business and edited the Visalia Delta. In 1865 he removed to Gilroy where he took charge of the mercantile business of J. M. Brown, which he later purchased. He was appointed Postmaster of Gilroy and held that office for eight years.

The deceased was a prominent Mason and Odd Fellow and an earnest worker in the Presbyterian church. About ten years ago he removed to Pacific Grove, where he conducted a real estate and insurance office. Mr. Briggs was a Sabbath school superintendent for more than thirty years and a School trustee for twenty-seven years, and always took an active interest in the moral and intellectual movements of the community. He leaves a wife and three children, Mrs. M. Benn of Gilroy, H. M. Briggs of Los Banos and Walter F. Briggs, who resides in the southern part of the State. The remains will be brought to Gilroy for interment on Sunday afternoon.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
July 20, 18506141	Geneseo, Livingston, New York	Grace Maria Stanley Abigail Maria Willey Julia E. Willey Ogden Stanley Willey Howard Willey Stanley Willey Jean Willey
July 11, 18606144	San Jose, Santa Clara, California	Julia E. Willey Henry Waterhouse Briggs Stanley Willey
June 15, 18706145	Gilroy, Santa Clara, California	Henry Waterhouse Briggs Julia E. Willey
June 9, 18806146	Gilroy, Santa Clara, California	Henry Waterhouse Briggs Julia E. Willey
June 2, 19008451	Pacific Grove, Monterey, California	Henry Waterhouse Briggs Julia E. Willey
January 8, 19201149	Pacific Grove, Monterey, California	Julia E. Willey