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• Birth	1 Feb 1850	The Indian territory attached to Harrison County, Missouri
  Gender	Male
  _UID	D03DCC75CA81394BB790C4016A00399C6887
  Died	Bef 1920
  	Cause: Tuberculosis
  Person ID	I1	Bridges Family Tree
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2009
  Father	Aaron Bridges,   b. 1823, Illinois
  Mother	Elizabeth Waynes,   b. 19 Mar 1828, Illinois ,   d. 24 Nov 1886, Barton County, MO
  Married	24 Jul 1848	The Indian territory attached to Harrison County, Missouri
  _UID	F9FD19A511ED7848A70D89BD59D4EDDC6265
  Family ID	F4	Group Sheet
  Family	Mary Ann L. Risley,   b. 1857, Duck Creek Township, Stoddard County, Missouri ,   d. Bef 1940, Kansas City, MO
  Married	1 Sep 1878
  _UID	16C078616B4C3C43B5BCC32152697ADD4C6F
  Children	1. Lillie C. Bridges,   b. 1879, Buffalo, Newton County, MO   2. James R Bridges,   b. 1881,   d. 1961, Archie, Cass County, MO   3. Fannie Mae Bridges,   b. 1881   4. John Thomas Bridges,   b. 16 Aug 1889, Austin, Cass County, MO ,   d. 29 Nov 1967, Adrian, Bates County, MO   5. Joseph Jackson Bridges,   b. 15 Apr 1895, Winona, Missouri   6. Bertha Bridges,   b. 1898, Missouri
  Family ID	F1	Group Sheet

• Photos	John Bridges in front of his sod house John Bridges in front of his sod house outside Oconto, Nebraska. From Simon D. Butcher photograph collection.
  Documents		Altus Oklahoma Plain Dealer News Paper Article - 1901 This newspaper article describes John Bridges tracking bank robbers into Texas. This was a story that has been handed down from generation to generation in the family. This newspaper article is the proof that it happened, and that John Simpson Bridges lived in the Altus OK area in 1901.
  		Chronicles of Old Navajoe This is a document which describes the area around Altus OK, specifically the Indian reservation and the tribes which lived there in 1901.
  		John Simpson Bridges Information John Simpson Bridges Information
  		Photograph Photograph of John Simpson Bridges in front of his sod house in Nebraska

• Notes

  The family moved quite a bit. In the 1850 census, they lived in the Indian Territory attached to Harrison County, Missouri where he was born. In the 1860 census, they lived in Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas. In the 1870 census, they lived in Johnson, Polk County, Missouri. In the 1880 census they lived in Mill Creek, Morgan County, Missouri. In the 1900 census John was listed at “J.S. Bridges” and the family lived in Pike Township, Carter County, Missouri. In the same census, his youngest daughter, Bertha (born about 1898), was not listed and although the birth date for John Thomas was listed as 1889 in the original document, he is shown as age 40 at the time of the census. In the 1910 census, the family name spelled “Bridget” and they lived in Carrollton, Boone County, Arkansas. According to verbal family history, John tracked some bank robbers from Oklahoma to Texas. This is confirmed by a May 17, 1901 article in the Altus, Oklahoma, Plain Dealer newspaper titled “Altus Burglarized”. This means that the family also lived in Navajoe, Texas/Oklahoma in 1901 on the Indian reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. As you can see from the census records, John moved around quite a lot. Keep in mind that these records are 10 years apart, and I have found other records which place them in at least two more locations. One was from pictures taken in Devil's Gap, Nebraska taken in 1887. The other is from the newspaper article quoted above in 1901. Then put that together with the places of birth for his children and you get a picture of a family that moved every couple of years.

• Sources

  [S10] 1850 US Federal Census. Listed as John S. Bridges, age 0 Home: Territory Attached To County, Harrison, Missouri [S7] 1860 US Federal Census. Listed as John S. Bridges, age 10 Living with parents in Van Buren, Crawford, Arkansas [S2] 1870 US Federal Census. Listed as John Bridges, age 20 Home in Johnson, Polk County, Missouri Still living with parents [S4] 1880 US Federal Census. Listed as John S. Bridges, age 29 Married to Mary A. L. Bridges living in Buffalo, Newton, Missouri [S12] 1900 US Federal Census. Listed as J. S. Bridges Residence : Pike Township, Carter, Missouri [S8] 1910 US Federal Census. Listed as John S. Bridget The person who transcribed this census misspelled the family last name. All the first and middle names of the family and all the birth dates are correct. They are listed under "John Bridget". [S1] Bridges Family Bible. [S13] The Plain Dealer Newspaper - Altus, Old Green County, Oklahoma Territory, (http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/greer/newspapers/pd1901a.txt). Altus Burglarized: Two Houses entered; stole horse and rode off. Burglars spent the night here and done considerable devilment. There were not less than two of them that entered the Johnson Hardware store through the back window and took about $60.00 worth of saddle and bridles, knives, cartridges and powder. They entered Hightower & Funderburk's grocery store through a back window, and after eating some canned goods and looting, took $4.00 from the cash drawer and then went to work on the fire and burglar proof safe. They must have been amateurs. They drilled a quarter inch hole through the top of the safe and poured two pounds of powder in it. This powder fell through the books and settled at the bottom of the safe. They then tried to run a fuse down through the safe, but the books prevented it from reaching down to the powder and the safe escaped further damage. They took a fine Marlin rifle, worth $40.00. They broke into the Blacksmith Shop of Boger & Fincher and got tools. The back door of the bank shows they made a halt there and tried to get it. They also kicked three times on the back door of the saddle shop of Guy Gamble. Mr Gamble and his brother Frank sleep in the shop and this awoke them and they asked what they wanted, thinking it was some of the boys. Mr. Gamble thinks it must have been one or two o'clock. J.M. Julian's horse stays in a stable back of his store and they rode him off. A lone horse was tracked out east and at the home of Rev. F.S.C. Bryce, two miles out, the traveler made a halt and tried to get another horse. He pulled up some posts to cross the wire fencing. It was about four o'clock when he struck this place. From there he tuned south. R.C. Johnson armed himself and pulled out in pursuit very early in the morning and was joined just out of town by Earl Cole Some later in the morning W.P. Bryan, Walter Wright, C.C. Mansfield, A. H. Wimberly and C.S. Maupin left for the same purpose. Stewart Miller and John Bridges came in from Navajoe last night with the news that the horse and saddle had been recovered and that all parties had crossed Northfork over into the reservation before the rain and they could not return for the swollen river. They thought the robbers escaped to the Wichita mountains. [S52] Solomon D. Butcher Photographs, (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?psbib:1:./temp/~ammem_I2VA:).