Ann Orchard KY. Thomas Reed Mary Ann Reed
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The children of John Bridges and Eliza Ellis his wife as enumerated in the 1850 census of Carroll County KY, were:
John Bridges age 56 (B. C.1794) Carpenter
Eliza Bridges (his wife) age 50 (B. c. 1800)
(Children) 1-Lucy Bridges
2-Joel Bridges
3-Sarah Bridges
4-David Bridges
5-George Bridges
David Bridges (4) was called by the double name of David Mathew Bridges throughout his life. According to his obituary, copy of which I have. He was born in Henry County KY., in 1837. His father moving at an early day to Ghent, KY. Where his life was spent until the Spring of 1813 when he moved to Carrollton, Carroll County, KY. On October 23, 1859 he married Mary Anmn Reed, the daughter of Thomas Reed and Anne Orchard of Covington, KY. Thomas Reed was born in Somersetshire, England, Jan. 2, 1809 and according to your grandmother Emily Loos Bridges capricious memory he was a furniture dealer and the local undertaker and was married three times. Your Stanley Bridges said his mother was born in England and came to the U.S. as a little girl and she remembered walking to church in Somerset with her grandmother and father, Abraham and Anne Reed for whom she was named. There are in existence a pair of little china rose (white) vases which were among Aunt Lucy Shearer’s effects which were given to Mary Ann Reed by her grandmother on her departure for America and that his mother never lost her English accent. Nanny thought they came first to New York, and that Thomas Reed married there and Mary Ann was born there. It is my belief that your Grandfather was right. Aunt Lucy told me about the little vases at one time and it compares in it’s essentials with what your grandfather remembered. In any case the little vases now belong to Beverly. As Aunt Lucy’s namesake she wanted her to have them.
The obituary taken from the newspaper has no name or date on it, just a clipping. It says in part, that “Mr. Bridges death marks the passing of one of the most remarkable men Carroll County ever produced…he was a man of rare intelligence and a natural born speaker. He was deputy sheriff for two terms and High Sheriff of Carroll County for two terms and afterwards entered the practice of Law in the firm of Winslow, Bridges and Winslow and was also Cashier of the Carrollton National Bank, which position he held at the time of his death and was a Mason serving as Grand Master of Kentucky in 1908. In the absence of a date in the obituary we do not know when he died. He was living in 1909 when he and his wife Mary sold 81 acres of land in Carrollton to a Mr. Tilton. It is not know how long his wife survived him, probably not more than a couple of years for in 1911 all the Bridges sons were giving Power of Attorney to your grandfather Edward
Stanley. Edward Stanley and Emily sold their portion of the land to a Mr. Combs. This was evidently in their preparation for leaving to go to the Philippines and the Mother Mary Reed Bridges sold her portion along with theirs. It is not know how long she survived after that date.