Daniel N Briley

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• Residence: 1910, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1920, Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA
• Residence: 1930, Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, USA

Daniel married Augusta Nash on 14 Jul 1905 in Pottawattamie, Iowa, USA. Augusta was born about 1883 in , , Nebraska, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Pearl Briley was born in 1901 in , , Nebraska, USA.
2. Gladis Briley was born in 1910 in , , Nebraska, USA.
3. Rader Pritey was born about 1911 in , , Minnesota, USA.
4. Lucille Briley was born about 1913 in , , Minnesota, USA.
5. F. Briley
6. William D Briley was born on 26 Feb 1917 in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA; died on 30 Sep 1970; was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA.
7. D. Briley

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• Residence: 1870, Saltillo, Oldham, Kentucky, USA
• Residence: 1898, Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: 1900, Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: 1910, Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: 1913, Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
• Residence: 1920, National Military Home, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA

Nelson married Judia Dickerson on 4 Jan 1870 in , Oldham, Kentucky, USA. Judia was born in Mar 1853 in , , Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1870, Saltillo, Oldham, Kentucky, USA
• Residence: 1900, Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: 1910, Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, USA

Nelson married Clara Dawson Fountain. Clara was born on 7 May 1801 in , Culpeper, Virginia, USA; died on 9 Sep 1922 in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA; was buried in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Chesapeake, Elizabeth City, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 18 Jun 1885, Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: 1900, Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: 1910, Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: 1920, Waco, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA

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Negro Star, Friday, September 15, 1922, Page 1

CENTENARIAN PASSES AWAY AT THE AGE OF 121 YEARS OLD

Leaving Children To The Fourth Generation
High Tributes Paid Her By Ministers Of The City

The funeral services of Mrs. Clara Dawson Fountain was held Tuesday afternoon at the St. Matthews C.M.E. Church at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. H.H. Edmonds, pastor, conducted the services, and was ably assisted by other ministers of the city, all of whom paid her the highest tribute of esteem and honor. Long before the hour for the funeral services, men and women from various walks of life had gathered at the church and taxed its seating and standing capacity. Men, women and children stood motionless to catch the last word of the solemn funeral rites. School children lingered outside to watch the funeral procession.

The funeral of this old sainted Centenarian took an unusual form and a seeming touch of grief possessed the audience during the service. Each speaker portrayed the good and the beautiful life lived by Mother Fountain and on this particular and unusual occasion death was clothed in beauty. For one hundred years, she had lived a devoted Christian life. Her favorite passage of Scripture was the 23d Psalm and her favorite songs were "Savior More Than Life To Me" and "He Knows it All." Rev. Edmond chose as his text Proverb 31:110. Nor could a more fitting chapter have been chosen to emulate the life of Mrs. Fountain. She has not only been faithful to her immediate children, but was loved by her children of the third and fourth generation because of the pure, sweet, serene life she had lived. The tenderness and sweetness of her soul radiated thru the long life of toil, sacrifice and service. It was said that "She never complained of life and that even though she had lived thru the horrors of the wars of the 19th century she was glad to give her great grandson during the World's War, with the hope that peace and good will for all mankind might be perfected.

Rev. Fishback Pays Highest Tribute.
Rev. E.T. Fishback paid mother Fountain the highest possible tribute, as a woman, a mother and a Christian. He attributed her long life of usefulness and service to the fact that she feared and loved her Creator. Meek, and lowly, she lived in humble submission to her Father. This together with her purity and simplicity of habits prolonged her life to six score years and one according to God's Word."

Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Clara Dawson Fountain
Mrs. Clara Dawson Fountain was born in Culpepper County, Virginia May 7, 1801. Died September 9, 1922 at 9:45 a.m. She was borned of a slave mother, and her father was her mother's master. When fifteen years of age she married one of her master's slaves, Andrew Gath, he died shortly after their marriage. Later she was married to Nelson Briley. Several children were borned to her, and her husband die while yet a slave. When the Civil War came, Mrs. Fountain had spent over half a century in slavery, and gave her two oldest sons to the cause of freedom. After the Emancipation Proclamation was declared she moved in Charlestown, S.C., with her children. A few years later she went to Louisville, Ky. In 1884 they made their way to Hasting, Nebraska, here she resided until four years ago, when she came to Wichita, Kans. She joined the C.M.E. Church, February 1921.

Mrs. Fountain worked hard on her master's tobacco plantation and learned to smoke a pipe at the age of 12 years old. She attributed her youthfulness and long life to simplicity of habits, out of door work and Christian faith. She is survived by one son, Dawson Briley, 72 years old, of this city, 19 grand children and 10 great, great grand-children, one of her grandsons Dr. N.D. Briley, is a practicing physician of this city.

The record of her birth was sent to her a few years ago by her former master's children, and this record verifies the statement that she was the oldest citizen of the State of Kansas and among the oldest in the United States. Other ministers, who spoke of this beautiful character were Rev. Douglass, Rev. Brown and Rev. Hancock. The body was buried in Highland Cemetery. "She sleeps in peace and all is well."

Residence:
Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head: Mother