Brief Life History of John Franklin
When John Franklin Bridges was born on 30 June 1861, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Joseph Kirby Bridges, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Ann Callen, was 22. He married Ann Elizabeth Bagby in 1902. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 7, Kenton, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Magisterial District 6, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died on 2 July 1935, in Kenton, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Fiskburg, Kenton, Kentucky, United States.
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- John F Bridges in household of Joseph Bridges, "United States Census, 1880"
- John F. Bridges, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1963"
- Frank in entry for Foster H Bridges and Lillian V Kennedy, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1862 · Battle of Perryville
On October 8, 1862, the Battle of Perryville took place between the Army of Ohio and the Army of Mississippi. It was the bloodiest battle on Kentucky soil. The Union lost around four thousand people and the Confederates lost around three thousand people. This was about one fifth of those that fought.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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