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John Thomas Bridges[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
Male 1889 - 1967

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  • Birth  16 Aug 1889  Austin, Cass County, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    _UID  425BA1E349025E4697AC59A50F80B4B74B04 
    Died  29 Nov 1967  Adrian, Bates County, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Cancer 
    Buried  1 Dec 1967  Crescent Hill Cemetery, Adrian, Bates County, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I6  Bridges Family Tree
    Last Modified  29 Aug 2009 
     
    Father  John Simpson Bridges,   b. 1 Feb 1850, The Indian territory attached to Harrison County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1920 
    Mother  Mary Ann L. Risley,   b. 1857, Duck Creek Township, Stoddard County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1940, Kansas City, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  1 Sep 1878 
    _UID  16C078616B4C3C43B5BCC32152697ADD4C6F 
    Family ID  F1  Group Sheet
     
    Family 1  Anna Isabel Dunning,   b. 12 Sep 1895, Jasper, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Mar 1947, Austin, Cass County, MO Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 10, 11, 12, 13] 
    Married  20 Jan 1917  Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID  95D6D79FE208CB4BA965C6A600ABE07B6159 
    Notes 
    • In at least one US Federal Census, the family name was transcribed incorrectly. It was spelled "Bridger" one time and "Bridget" another. [5]
    Children 
     1. Elma Narcis Bridges,   b. 13 May 1918,   d. 18 Aug 1998, Willow Springs, Howell County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. John Thomas Bridges, WO2Rt,   b. 3 Jul 1919,   d. 15 Jun 1990, Vancouver, Clark County, Washington Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Mary Odell Bridges,   b. 12 Dec 1920, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Sep 1994, San Mateo, California Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Chester Marion Bridges,   b. 4 May 1923,   d. 12 Nov 1982, Sacramento, California Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Myrtle I Bridges,   b. Jun 1925, Willow Springs, Howell County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. T.W. Bridges
     7. C.O. Bridges
     8. James Albert Bridges,   b. 8 Jul 1930, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Jun 2003, Springfield, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Joseph Arthur Bridges,   b. 8 Jul 1930, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 May 1995, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
     10. Patty Bridges
     11. Betty Bridges
    Documents
    WW 1 Draft Card    		WW 1 Draft Card
    John Thomas Bridges' World War 1 Draft Card
    Marriage License    		Marriage License
    John Thomas Bridges - Ann Isabelle Smith Marriage License
    Family ID  F3  Group Sheet
     
    Family 2  Minnie Sykes,   b. 26 Jan 1903,   d. Jan 1981, Adrian, Bates County, MO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Abt 1954 
    _UID  CF2E36AADC2FAC4CBE9E59980C5C4FFADE1D 
    Family ID  F79  Group Sheet
     
  • Photos Reunion 1978
    Reunion July 1978
     
    Documents
    North Dakota Land Patent    		North Dakota Land Patent
    Land on the North Dakota Indian Reservation in the name of Ann Isabelle Dunning's father, Fountain Brown Dunning
    John Thomas Bridges    		John Thomas Bridges
    Information about John Thomas Bridges
     
  • Notes 
    • Married: Anna Isabel Dunning on 19 Jan 1917 Carthage, Jasper County, MO

      John worked for the Rock Island Railroad when he was young. He could tell you every whistle stop along the route from Kansas City to Willow Springs. During the Great Depression, most of his family moved back to the Cherokee Indian Reservation in Oklahoma. The tribe wanted John to move back also, because he had a good job with the railroad. John declined saying that he could take care of his family better by himself.

      John was a staunch Republican. He said that he only ever voted for one Democrat in his life, and that ended up being a mistake. During the Great Depression, that Democrat was climbing on John's grain bins and saying that he had too much of some ingredient. He told John that the government was going to come confiscate the grain. John got his gun and told the man that if he didn't get off his land he was going to shoot him off the grain bin. The Democrat said that he would come back with officers, and John said that he had 10 children there and that all of them could shoot and would shoot anything or anyone he told them too. He said that the grain was for his family to eat. The Democrat did not return.
      Early in their marriage, John and Anna moved to North Dakota to try to farm the land owned by her father. A record of the land patent is on the web at Land Patent <http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Detail.asp?PatentDocClassCode=SER&Accession=NDMTAA+033216&Index=1&QryID=38047>. The land patent shows the acreage is on the US Indian Reservation. John was known to have said that the land was so poor “you couldn't even grow black-eyed peas” on it. This, plus the birth places of his children, and Census records show that the family moved around every few years.

      John told his children “don't tell anyone you are part Indian”, therefore most of the information to determine the Indian heritage is unverifiable. It was thought that the records were burned in a fire on the Cherokee Reservation in Oklahoma. The reason Cherokee was hinted at was because of a story within the family that our ancestors had been on “The Trail of Tears”. I can find no record of any of the family living on the Cherokee Reservation, but Navajoe (where his family lived when his father tracked the bank robbers) is just outside the Kiowa/Comanche Oklahoma Reservation. See the attached document about Navajoe, Oklahoma. This does not mean that our ancestors were not on The Trail of Tears because tribes other than the Cherokee were forced on this march as well. John Thomas' wife was supposed to be Blackfoot, but the property for Fountain Brown Dunning is on the Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Fountain Brown's wife, Clementine O'Dell Rhea, was Sioux by adoption. Her mother was Arikara from the Nebraska/Iowa area. I found this by tracing stories told within the family. Clementine would go to the Custer National Battlefield Monument because her uncle was a guide for George Armstrong Custer. Of the 39 scouts that rode with the 7th Cavalry, only the 6 Arikara scouts did not turn back before the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Clenny would tell everyone in the family that her uncle's name was on the monument. At that time there were only 6 Indian Scout names on the monument. All were Arikara. I think I have been able to figure out which of the scouts was our ancestor by looking at the pictures of each of them. More than one member of our family looks like Bloody Knife and none have even a passing resemblance to any of the other scouts.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S8] 1910 US Federal Census.

    2. [S14] 1930 US Federal Census.
      The family name was misspelled in this census. It was spelled "Bridger". I recognized my grandfather's handwriting in the spelling of his name on the census form. His "S" is unmistakable to me.
      Home in 1930: Willow Springs, Howell, MO

    3. [S1] Bridges Family Bible.

    4. [S6] John Bridges Draft Card.
      Home listed on Draft Card: Austin, Cass County, MO

    5. [S5] Marriage License, (http://www.bridgestree.org/John_Thomas_Bridges_1889/John_T_Bridges_-_Ann_Isabelle_Smith_-_Marriage_License.pdf).

    6. [S11] North Dakota Land Patent, (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Detail.asp?PatentDocClassCode=SER&Accession=NDMTAA+033216&Index=1&QryID=38047.).

    7. [S20] LDS Database.

    8. [S21] 1925 Census, 1855 - 1925 Kansas State Census Collection.

    9. [S12] 1900 US Federal Census.
      The person who transcribed this census lists his age as 40, but his birthdate on the original form is correct.
      Home in 1900: Pike, Carter, Missouri

    10. [S6] John Bridges Draft Card.

    11. [S11] North Dakota Land Patent, (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Detail.asp?PatentDocClassCode=SER&Accession=NDMTAA+033216&Index=1&QryID=38047.).
      Early in their marriage, John and Ann moved to North Dakota to try farming
      160 acres that had been given to her father in a land grant by the Bureau of Land
      Management on the Indian Reservation in North Dakota. John was known to have said
      that "the only thing that would grow on that land was Black-Eyed Peas".

    12. [S3] 1920 US Federal Census.

    13. [S14] 1930 US Federal Census.


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