When Elizabeth Bridges was born on 13 January 1791, in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, her father, Benjamin Bridges, was 39 and her mother, Mary 'Sarah' Jones, was 36. She married Hugh Bailey from January 1804 to December 1804, in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 11 daughters. She died on 21 October 1871, in her hometown, at the age of 80, and was buried in Greer, Greenville, South Carolina, United States.
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English: variant of Bridge . The -s generally represents the genitive case, but may occasionally be a plural. In some cases this name denoted someone from the Flemish city of Bruges (Brugge) in Belgium, meaning ‘bridges’, which had extensive trading links with England in the Middle Ages.
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