Jefferson County, Mississippi

Jefferson County Obituaries & Biographies

From the 1904 Expo Edition of the Fayette Chronicle

Mr. J. E. Briggs is a native Virginian, having been born in Scottsville, Va., June 18, 1865.

For eight years he was engaged in the jewelry business in Bessemer, Ala., and in 1900 came to Fayette, where he has established an up-to-date jewelry store.

He is a graduate optician and thoroughly conversant with the business in which he is engaged.

Mr. Briggs is very popular with his townsmen and in 1904 was elected mayor of his adopted town. In 1890 he married Miss Minnie E. Schober of Rodney.