Title	Miss
Last Name	Briggs
First Name	Elmie
Middle Name	J.
Maiden Name
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Corinna, ME
Date of Birth	1862-09-13
Place of Death	Greenville, ME
Date of Death	1924-12-11
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 12-18-1924, p.1
Obituary	Miss Elmie J. Briggs Friends of Miss Elmie J. Briggs were grieved to hear of her death which occurred at the Dean Memorial hospital, Greenville, December 11, 1924, after several months serious illness. Miss Briggs was the daughter of was born in Corinna in 1862. At the Phillips and Martha Hale Briggs and age of ten years, after the death of her mother, she came to live in Dexter with her aunt, Mrs. Horace Jose, and she grew to womanhood in that home sharing the interests, activities and affections of the family. Funeral services were held in the Union church, Greenville, Saturday afternoon, the pastor, Rev. H. C. Vrooman and Rev. H. A. Thomas of the Methodist church officiating. Miss Briggs was a member of the Methodist church for many years and wherever she made her home, she always identified herself with the affairs of the church and the Sunday school. The writer's acquaintance with her began in grammar school days, we were both members of D. H. S. class of '82 and the frindship grew and ripened with the years. Miss Briggs was a graduate of Farmington State Normal School in the class of '86 and she taught school in Dexter, Sangerville, Guilford and other nearby towns. She was an efficient and conscientious teacher and always won the esteem and affection of her pupils. The last twenty-one years have been spent in Greenville. When her health forbade her continuing in her chosen work of teaching, she took up other pursuits. But wherever she was, what ever she did, her stirling Christian character won her a place in the life of the community. Sixty-two years, -a long life? A short one? That is just as one looks at it. But in her case a full, earnest well-rounded life lived for the good of mankind and the advancement of God's Kingdom. "A beautiful character gone to her reward." M. H. H. The Eastern Gazette 12-18-1924, p.1 MISS ELMIE J. BRIGGS 1862 - 1924 Miss Elmie J. Briggs was born on September 13, 1862, the daughter Mr. and Mrs. Phillips Briggs. Her mother died when she was a small child and there after she made her home with her mother's sister. Mrs. Horace Jose. The family lived on the Jose farm on the road to Garland and Elmie first attended the Spooner's Mills school and later the village schools. She always had it in mind to become a school teacher. She was graduated from Dexter high school in the class of 1882 the first class to number more than two members, and the first class to have a regular graduation program, with valedictory, history, prophesy, poem and salutatory. Miss Briggs had the class history. We first find Miss Briggs as a teacher in school district No. 5 in charge of the summer term, in 1881, which began after the school year had ended in the High School. The school report for that year notes that Miss Briggs gave excellent promise of future success. In 1882 and 1883 she was in charge of the school in District No. 3 for three consecutive terms. We quote the report- "The discipline and advancement in this school is worthy of especial consideration, the instruction showing how a High School education should be appreciated." During the next few years Briggs alternately taught in our rural schools and pursued a course of instruction at the Farmington State Normal School from which institution she graduated at the end of the spring term in 1886. That year she taught with excellent success in the Free Street Primary School during the summer and fall terms, and in 1888 Miss Briggs had charge of spring and fall terms in Intermediate school No. 2. For a few years Miss Briggs taught in the Sangerville schools and later went to Greenville where she taught in the village schools as long as her health would permit. When she felt that she must give up her chosen work she accepted a position as housekeeper, first with Mrs. Mansell and later with Mrs. Sanders. She brought the same faithful service to this work as she had to her teaching, and won the respect of her associates. Indeed, such was the quality of her personality, that she won a distinct place for herself where ever she lived. She was always interested in the community of which she was a part, and ready to help in any good. work. She was especially interested in the Greenville Public Library and there is a tablet to her memory in that building. Always a faithful Methodist she did much for the young people's movement. Miss Briggs died in Greenville on December 11, 1924 and is buried in the Jose lot at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Dexter. The Eastern Gazette 12-14-1944, p.3E (LHC)