The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 7, July 1903 - April, 1904 Page: 69
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Mrs. Mary Jane Briscoe.
"Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe, one of which
died in infancy. When the eldest arrived at an age to require
school advantages, his father decided to remove to New Orleans and
engage in a banking business, and so, in the spring of 1849, the
move was made, but scarcely had the enterprise begun when its
head and founder was taken sick and died on the 4th day of Octo-
ber. General Parmenas Briscoe being present at the deathbed of
his son, closed up the business and took the young widow and her
children to his plantation home in Claiborne county, Mississippi,
and the remains of Captain Andrew Briscoe were laid to rest in the
old family burying ground.
"Here Mrs. Briscoe remained for three years, at the end of which
time, St. Paul's college having been established at Anderson, Texas,
the family removed to that place; but this college enterprise failed
in 1856, and the family then went to Galveston and remained until
1859, when at the earnest solicitation of Mrs. Harris, they returned
to Harrisburg and shared with her the old family homestead in
which Mrs. Briscoe had been married, and which had been built on
the site of the original home burnt by the Mexicans.
"Mrs. Briscoe lost her mother in 1869, but she, with her family,
continued to live in the old home. Her second son, Andrew Bird-
sill, was married to Anna F. Paine on the 28th of February, 1871,
and her daughter, Jessie Wade, became the wife of Milton G. Howe,
September 17, 1873. In 1874 Mrs. Briscoe moved to Houston,
where she has resided ever since. On September 13, 1881, her
youngest daughter, Adele Lubbock was married to Michael Looscan.
Her oldest son, Parmenas, has never married, and has always made
his mother's pleasure his first care.
"At the breaking out of the civil war, Mrs. Briscoe, with true
Southern patriotism, willingly gave her sons to the service of the
Confederacy and her heart and home were always open to the sick
and needy soldiers. She cherishes an ardent love for everything
connected with the first years of her life in Texas; feels great pride
in her father's and mother's association with its early history, and
one of the happiest occasions of her advanced life is the annual
reunion of the Texas Veteran Association."
Mrs. Briscoe was one of the organizers of the Daughters of the
Republic of Texas; a meeting for its formation being called at her
home in Houston on November 6, 1891, she was elected First Vice
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