"MAD" SAM BRIDGES CEMETERY

This cemetery is located in No. 2 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. on
eastern slope of small hill surrounded by dogwood, wild cherry, wild
plum, pine and oak trees, and out in a field.  Situated about 2 ½ miles
northeast of Boiling Springs, N.C., also about one mile east of Carvus
Hamrick's residence, and about ¼ mile east of Julius Spurlin's home
place.

Owner of Cemetery:  Mrs. Bob Bridges

Approximate number of marked graves: 10
  Before 1914:     10
  After 1914:      None
  Unmarked graves: 10

Earliest marked grave:  Infant son of W. & I. Bridges

General condition of cemetery: Grown up in bushes and entirely neglected.

Date of survey:  Nov. 23, 1938

Workers:  B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton

Descriptions:


Bridges, Caleb
B.  July 1, 1801
D.  Mar. 3, 1863
(He was drown in Caney River, Yancy
  County [NC]. Information given by S.
  C. Jones.)

Green, S. L., Wife of
  W. W. Green
D.  Oct. 16, 1868
Aged:  10 years, 9 mos., 2 ds.
[This is exactly how this reads; so   there
  must be an error in years lived for S. L.
  to be the wife of W. W. Green.]

Bridges, Nancy
D.  Feb. 23, 1829
Aged:  73 years, 8 mos., and 3 days
"She was married to Caleb Bridges Feb. 1st,
1827.  And was baptized by D. Dobbins into
the fellowship of the church at Sandy Run
June 18, 1855."

Bridges, Martha E., daughter of
   John & Cyntha Bridges
B.  Mar. 14, 1853
D.  Sept. 7, 1855

Martha
D.  July 6, 1852
Aged:  2 months and 11 days

Bridges, _____, infant son of
  W. & I. Bridges
D.  June 18, 1815? [The date of death
  has been typed over repeatedly so
  that it is impossible to read.]

Bridges, Sarah S., daughter of
   W. & I. Bridges
D.  Oct. 1843
Aged:  1 year

Bridges, A. L., wife of
  W. B. Bridges
B.  Dec. 25, 1818
D.  Jan. 26, 1872
"Was a member of the Baptist
  Church for 32 years."

Bridges, Samuel
D.  July 18, 1840
Aged:  66 years

 The following is a literal inscription taken from the marker of Caleb Bridges:
"He was baptized into the fellowship of Sandy Run Church June 1833 by
the venerable Drury Dobbins and lived a consistent member to the day of
his death; serving as a deacon and minister of the gospel for many
years.
 "His usefulness is an example worth of imitation."

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This cemetery is among the many Cleveland cemeteries included on the Cleveland Count WPA Cemeteries CD,
copyrighted 2008, by Ann K. Propst and Derick S. Hartshorn.
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For a copy of the complete Cleveland County WPA Cemetery Survey, see http://www.hartshorn.us/CWPA.htm