Lena Elizabeth Gibbs Presley
1907 - 1992 (85 years)-
Name Lena Elizabeth Gibbs Presley Birth 25 May 1907 Boylson, Oswego, New York USA 
Gender Female Death 12 Sep 1992 Lacona Oswego County New York USA Person ID I82163 Stewartsny Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
Father Charles Mortimer Gibbs, b. 15 Apr 1887, Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan, USA d. 27 Dec 1950 (Age 63 years) Relationship natural Mother Ada Presley, b. Jan 1885, Boylston, New York, USA d. 4 Feb 1910 (Age 25 years) Relationship natural Family ID F20914 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Father Benjamin Franklin Presley, b. 22 Sep 1858, Boylston, Oswego, New York, United States d. 1 Oct 1940, Boylston, Oswego, New York (Age 82 years) Relationship natural Mother Martha Elizabeth Briggs, b. 1 Feb 1863, Boylston, Oswego, New York, United States d. 21 Jun 1936, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, United States (Age 73 years) Relationship natural Marriage 25 Oct 1879 Family ID F18083 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Charles Salmon Mason, b. 16 Jul 1909 d. 10 Aug 1967 (Age 58 years) Children 1. Mariel Eleanor Mason Family ID F20990 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
Family 2 Ralph F Briggs, b. 1 Mar 1904, Boylston Center, Oswego County, New York, United States of America d. 16 May 1959, Parish, Oswego County, New York, United States of America (Age 55 years) Marriage 2 Aug 1924 Sandy Creek, New York, USA Children 1. Dicia A. Briggs, b. 22 Aug 1925, Lacona d. 11 Sep 2009, Lacona, Oswego, New York (Age 84 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. Othmer Briggs, b. 2 Oct 1931, Lacona Osweg, New York d. 30 Jan 2005, Oswego, New York, United States (Age 73 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. Mildred Briggs, b. 7 Nov 1933, Lacona Osweg, New York d. 15 Mar 2006, Watertown, Jefferson, New York (Age 72 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. Keith Ralph Briggs, b. 13 Sep 1938, Syracuse Ono, New York d. 3 May 2001, Lacona, Oswego, New York, United States of America (Age 62 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F21758 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
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Notes - LENA E. MASON, CITY WOMAN’S MOTHER, DIES
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - September 13, 1992
Lena E. Mason, 85, Harwood Drive, longtime area resident, died at 10:20 a.m. Saturday at the Mercy Center for Health Services, Watertown, where she had been a patient since May 27.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Sandy Creek Wesleyan Church with the Rev. Melvyn S. Connell, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Wesleyan Cemetery.
Calling hours will be from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Sandy Creek Wesleyan Church. Arrangements are with the Summerville Funeral Home, Sandy Creek.
Surviving are two sons, Othmer Briggs, Sandy Creek, and Keith Briggs, Lacona; two daughters, Dicia Whipple, Lacona, and Mildred Vincent, Watertown; a stepson, Charles Mason, Canastota; two stepdaughters, Mariel Jordal, Lacona, and Arreta Brown, Canastota; 12 grandchildren; 15 step-grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; a brother, Robert Gibbs, Richland; three sisters, Marjorie Bennett, Pulaski, Hazel Powelczyk, Central Square, and Ruth Russell, Vermont, and several nieces and nephews.
A brother, Col. Theodore Presley, and two sisters, Thelma Wright and Doris Murry, died before her.
She was born Sept. 2, 1907, in Arctic, Delaware County, a daughter of Charles and Ada Presley Gibbs. She was adopted by her grandparents, Benjamin and Martha Presley, at the age of 2.
She married Ralph F. Briggs of Lacona Aug. 2, 1924. Mr. Briggs, an employee of the Blount Lumber Co., died in May 1959.
She married Charles S. Mason of Orwell in January 1962. Mr. Mason died Aug. 10, 1967.
Mrs. Mason had been a resident of the Sandy Creek-Lacona area for the past 68 years.
She was a member of the Sandy Creek Wesleyan Church.
- LENA E. MASON, CITY WOMAN’S MOTHER, DIES