Robert Lee Bridges
ROBERT LEE BRIDGES (July 10, 1921-July 5, 1956) An estimated 600 people gathered at the old Baptist Church in Fountain Run Saturday afternoon to pay their last respects to the passing of their relative, friend, & neighbor, ROBERT LEE BRIDGES, whose funeral was conducted there by Bro. Bennett Masters & Bro. Emmett Strode. Robert, who was 34 years of age, came to his untimely death Thursday morning when a tractor he was driving turned over and fell upon him, breaking his neck. It appears that the accident occurred on the Noah Cater farm just after he had turned off the Fountain Run-Glasgow highway.Roy Wisdom, a Barren County farmer was coming from the other direction & was the first to arrive at the scene of the accident. Robert had worked as a mechanic at Grady Dossey's Garage for some time & then worked for Jack Ed Cosby when he assumed the management of said garage. Recently he had been in the employ of Dossey & Veach and at the time of his death was going to the Carter farm to rake hay. He was a fine young man imbued with a most pleasant personality which gained him scores of friends, & the comment generally is that he was everybody's friend. He was converted when a boy & united with the Capital Hill Baptist Church, later moving his membership to the New Design Baptist Church. He was a devoted husband & father, and a fine citizen, being dependable, honorable & steady in life's dealings.He is survived by his wife, Nellie Russell Bridges, a three year old daughter, his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Hubert Bridges, four brothers, Haskel, Jessie, Billy, & Wallace, three sisters, Dorothy White, Geneva Meadors, and Gladys Shaw. Thirty nieces & nephews ranging in ages from ten to twenty, served as flower girls & honorary pall bearers. Active pall bearers were Messrs. Mike & Grady Dossey, Eldon Veach, Rossie Lee Carver, Howard Lane and Jesse Francis. Interment was in Fountain Run Cemetery with Hughes & Goad in charge.
