| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fourth Generation31. Thomas Earl "Scrage" Sargent was born on 23 Dec 1884 in Jefferson County, Illinois.1,13,21 Michael Sargent's GEDCOM shows the date of birth as 27 Dec 1883 but in a 24 Nov 1998 e-mail he writes: ...both the letter from my Grandad Pearl and the Family group record from Dr. Bill confirm the 23rd so this is probably a keystroke error on my part. He died on 22 May 1964 in Jefferson County, Illinois.1,13,21 The place of death could be Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois. He was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Jefferson County, Illinois. His first name might have been Edward. Thomas Earl "Scrage" Sargent and Gertrude May
Brieseacher were married. We are not sure about the birth order of
these children. Gertrude May Brieseacher13,22 (daughter
of August Briesacher and Rosa Weilminster) was born in 1890 in Saint Clair County,
Illinois.13 She died on
16 Jan 1916.13 She was buried
in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois.15,19
The name could also be spelled Briesacher. Michael Sargent writes in a 24 Nov
1998 e-mail: The Briesacher thing has changed spellings because I keep finding
it spelled different ways. Grandad always spelled it Brieseacher. But I tend
to find it more often spelled Briesacher. However it appears both ways in different
census records and is spelled Bresacher in the History of Jefferson County Illinois
book which has a Bio for Phillip Briesacher (or Bresacher) and his family which
included August Briesacher, father of Gertrude. Thomas Earl "Scrage"
Sargent and Gertrude May Brieseacher had the following children:
Thomas Earl "Scrage" Sargent and Pearl Thompson were married. |