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Jesse Bridges, born June 17, 1809
in Kentucky. Like his father and brothers, he was a miller, and sometimes
farmer. He and his father and brothers moved to Henry County, Indiana, then to
Hancock County, then to Johnson county.
He married Hester Dragoo in
Brown County, Ohio in 1832, just across the river from where he lived in
Kentucky. She was descended from the famous Indian fighter, Belteshazar
Dragoo.
By 1850, Jesse and Hester
were in Johnson Co., Indiana, as were most of his relatives and some of
hers. They had four children. Hester died in 1851 in Johnson
County.
Jesse (age 42) remarried in 1851,
in Johnson County, Indiana to Mary Baker (age 17), daughter of William
(died in Sept. 1850) and Sarah (Castator) Baker. They went to Montgomery County,
Iowa, near her family in Page County. They also lived in Adams County for a
while.
Jesse and Mary had three
daughters. Mary died about 1857.
In 1858, Jesse married her
fifteen year old sister, Elmira Baker, in Nodaway County, Missouri, just across
the border from Page county, Iowa, where her family lived. Elmira's father had
died and her mother had just remarried.
They moved to Gentry County,
Missouri, near his brother Ivy, then to Buchanan County, Missouri. They
were in St. Joseph, Buchanan County in 1860.
In 1870, they were in Brown
county, Kansas.
They were in Crawford County, Kansas, in 1875 and 1880. Jesse and Elmira had three children. Elmira's mother, Sarah (Castator, Baker) Beaver, age 78, was living with them in 1880. Jesse was listed as age 70 and Elmira as age 37 on the 1880 census.
Jesse died November 9, 1887 in
Crawford County and is buried in Smiley Cemetery, near Mulberry, Kansas. No
death or cemetery record has been found for Elmira, but in 1900 she was living
with son, William, in Olathe, Kansas. She may have died there since she was not
there in 1910.
Locations for the Jesse Bridges
family:
1840-Henry County, Indiana (wife-Hester
Dragoo)
1850-Johnson County, Indiana (wife-Hester Dragoo)
1856-Montgomery
County, Iowa (wife-Mary Baker)
1860-Buchanan County, Missouri (wife-Elmira
Baker)
1870-Brown County, Kansas (wife-Elmira Baker)
1880-Crawford County,
Kansas (wife-Elmira Baker)
1900-(Elmira) Olathe, Johnson Co., Kansas (living
with son, William)
