Person Sheet


Name Hester Bridges
Birth 21 June 1859, Iowa
Census 30 August 1870, Madison Township, Madison County, Iowa
Census 13/14 July 1880, Madison Township, Madison County, Iowa
Death 26 June 1896, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Burial 27 June 1896, Fairview Cemetery, Madison Township, Madison County, Iowa
Father Lawson/Losson Bridges (1822-1900)
Mother Melinda Portlock (1829-1912)
Spouses
Unmarried
Notes for Hester Bridges
"Miss Hester Bridges, of Madison Township, died at Sioux Falls, South Dakota last Friday morning. The remains were brought back for burial, and the funeral was held at Fairview, at 10 o'clock last Monday. She was the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Lawson Bridges, of Madison Township, who are old settlers of that part of the county. Miss Bridges was the sister of Mrs. Oliver Lucus, of this place. At the time of her death at Sioux Falls, she held the position of matron of the school for the deaf and dumb and had previously held similar positions at Salt Lake City, Council Bluffs and Mitchellville."
Information taken from cemetery records for Madison County, Iowa and an article printed in the Winterset Madisonian newspaper on June 30, 1896.
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