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• Isaac Newton Briscoe is buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Caddo Mills, Hunt County, Texas.  There are several other Briscoes buried there, including his wife
  
  Briscoe, I.N. b 4-15-1843   d  6-5-1920 Section 2 Row 2 Block 11 Lot 1
  Briscoe, Mary C., wife of I.N.  b 12-29-1848   d 6-8-1903  Section 2 Row 2 Block 11 Lot 2
  
  Name  Birth  Death  Section Row Block Lot
  Briscoe, Barney Wray 5-17-1902 9-25-1940 2 2 11 7
  Briscoe, Ben M. 1887  1958  2 2 11 3
  Briscoe, Blanche 7-3-1909  9-28-1917 2 2 7 2
  Briscoe, Clark B. 5-16-1882 3-4-1933  2 2 7 3
  Briscoe, Lillie B. 8-16-1883 8-26-1934 2 2 7 4
  Briscoe, Wray 2-10-1872 11-20-1942 2 2 11 6
  --  Oddfellows Cemetery Registry, Caddo Mills, Texas, http://caddomillsioofcemetery.com/Documents/IOOFAB.mht
  
  Another genealogy reports his place of death and burial as Caddo Mills, Hunt County, Texas.  He is buried there in the Oddfellows Cemetery.  This source reports the same death date as found on his grave.
  
  Isaac Newton Briscoe
  Birth 15 Apr 1843 in Missouri
  Death 5 Jun 1920 in Caddo Mills, Hunt, Texas
  Parents  James R. Briscoe 1820-1863, Rebecca Wray 1816-1852
  --  Cockerham Family, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/7607861/person/-1061121145?ftm=1
  
  Some genealogies report that Isaac Newton Briscoe who was the son of James R Briscoe and born in 1843 had a son also names Isaac Newton, born in 1856.  But this is too young for his to be his son.  Some genealogies report the later birth date for the son of James Runnels Briscoe.  But his date is on the Civil War Roster and his grave, so the son of James Runnels was born in 1843, not 1856.  No documentation or explanation is provided on these genealogies, so there is not much way to evaluate their validity.
  
  One genealogy with some good information about the Briscoes reports that the younger Isaac Newton Briscoe died in the town Y, in Somme, France, but does not have a date.  He would have been about 60 at the time of the World War I, so it does not seem reasonable he was in France related to the war.
  
  Isaac Newton BRISCOE, Birth 11 May 1856, Death in Y [Somme, France];  Parents James Runnells BRISCOE 1820 - 1863, Sarah Jane Walton 1830 - 1913
  --  Mead/Cox Family, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/3973148/person/-1666924662
  
  Note the difference of wives for James R and mothers for Isaac Newton.  These are reported as two wives of James R.  One genealogy has 4 wives for James Runnels Briscoe!  It appears that one of two things has happened.  James R had a son with each of these wives and named them the same.  The compilers of the genealogists have confused two similar Briscoe families.  I see that birth places and dates in Texas and in Missouri are variously reported for the different Isaac Newton Briscoes with different birth dates.  I am following public records where these occur and continue looking for more of this sort of information to clarify the Briscoe story.
  
  I found one genealogy which had no dates, but did provide some missing names.  No other genealogy I had seen had the name of Isaac Newton Briscoe, other than Mary C, which appears in the cemetery listing.  This genealogy gives her full name as Mary Caruthers Mattox.
  
  Briscoe, Isaac Newton
  Family:
  Spouse: Mattox, Mary Carruthers
  Father: Mattox, Wiley Ammon
  Mother: McDonald, Sarah Carruthers
  Children:
  Briscoe, Ida
  Briscoe, Maude
  Briscoe, Marion Wray (Male)
  Briscoe, Henry Alverde
  Briscoe, Benjamin
  Briscoe, Clark Braden
  --  Maddox Family, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maddoxfamily/f_d3.html#1
  
  1850 Federal Census, Hunt County, Texas, 16 October, page 194, Hse #41, Fam #43
  John Briscoe 35 M Bell Smith b Tennessee [b abt 1815]
  Rebecca Briscoe 34 F b Virginia [b abt 1836]
  Isaac N Briscoe 6 F b Missouri [b abt 1844]
  
  1860 Federal Census, Hunt County, Texas, 3 October, Precinct 8, P O Farmersville Collin County, p 39 (scan 340), Hse/Fam #985
  John Briscoe 45 M Stock Raiser $1280 Real Estate $10000 Personal Born Virginia [born abt 1815]
  Elizabeth Briscoe 32 F b Tenn [born abt 1828]
  Isaac N Briscoe 15 M b Mo [born abt 1845]
  

Sources

• 1. Oddfellows Cemetery Registry, Caddo Mills, Texas
  • Name: Name: http://caddomillsioofcemetery.com/Documents/IOOFAB.mht;;
• 2. Civil War Soldiers Roster
• 3. 1860 Federal Census, Hunt County, Texas
  • 3 October, Precinct 8, P O Farmersville Collin County, p 39 (scan 340), Hse/Fam #985
• 4. 1850 Federal Census, Hunt County, Texas
  • 16 October, page 194, Hse #41, Fam #43
• 5. Ancestry Trees
  • Cockerham Family, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/7607861/person/-1061121145?ftm=1
• 6. Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
  • Certificate #20111
• 7. Ancestry Stories
  • Tucker Family Tree, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/6585536/person/-1048469429
• 8. Ancestry Trees
  • Leta's Family, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2804391/person/-1815879408?pg=32827