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Go To Richard Allen Bridgwater Biography
We found the following stones:
Bridgwater, Eliza J. 27 Aug 1856 - 8 July 1902
"Beloved one farewell"
Bridgwater, Danial V. 6 Sept 1871 - 12 Sept 1871
Bridgwater, Julia A. 2 Mar 1876 - 27 July 1877
Bridgwater, Richard A. 29 Jan 1821 - 3 Sept 1875
Bridgwater, Ann M. 31 Jan 1835 - 4 Nov 1907
Small stone crypt- not readable.
Footstones marked JCB and TJB.
There is evidence of several other graves marked with fieldstones.
Smith County Tennessee Cemeteries - South of the Cumberland River
on page 22-23 lists the following that we did not find:
Bridgwater, I.N.R. 15 Nov 1801 - 16 July 1858
*Bridgwater, W.S. 31 Jan 1862 - 21 Aug 1943
*Bridgwater, Catherine E. Hinson 24 Sept 1868 - 13 May 1906
Tombstone relocated from Bridgwater Cemetery to the Bethlehem Cemetery
three miles away in Wilson County.
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The landowner stated that his father had moved some stones from this
cemetery to another cemetery several years ago. The cemetery book
does not list the names of Richard, Ann & Julia Bridgwater.
Copied by Retta Waggoner May 29, 2002