Malinda (Portlock) Bridges (1912)

BRIDGES, CROFT, HODSON, HUNTER, IIAMS, IMES, LUCAS, MCGINNIS, PORTLOCK

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 9/18/2010 at 08:27:10

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 25, 1912
Page 5

City and County

Malinda Bridges was buried at Fairview last Monday. She with her husband, Lawson Bridges, settled in Madison township about forty years ago, where they had one of the best farms in the county. They moved to Stuart in 1894, where Mr. Bridges died some six years afterward. For the past few years Mrs. Bridges had made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Warren Iiams.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
October 1912

Mrs. Malinda Bridges, mother of Austin Bridges passed away Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Imes, in Stuart at the advanced age of 82 years. She had lived for 19 years in Stuart, 12 of which were spent with her daughter, following the death of Mr. Bridges in 1900. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Couch, pastor of the Stuart Christian church at Stuart Monday, following which the trip across country was made to Fairview where a second service was held and interment made. 8 children and 22 grandchildren survive Mrs. Bridges.

From Earlham, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Bridges, Mr. and Mrs. Will Hodson, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Croft attended the funeral service at Stuart.
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The Stuart Herald
Stuart, Iowa
Friday, September 27, 1912
Page 7, Column 3

Malinda Portlock was born in Rush county, Indiana, October 19, 1829, and died September 21, 1912, aged 82 years, 11 months and 2 days. When she was six years of age 1835, her parents left their Indiana home and came farther west, locating in Burlington when that flourishing city was only a fort. At the age of fourteen her father died. Her mother then purchased a farm near Pleasant Grove, Iowa.

In November, 1848 she was married to Lamson Bridges in Des Moines county, locating on a farm in the same county. From there Mr. and Mrs. Bridges moved to Madison county where they resided on a farm for forty four years.

Mrs. Bridges was the mother of twelve children, eight of whom are living. Seven of them were with her during her last illness and attended the last rites of their mother, who has been with them so many years. One daughter, who resides at St. Ann, Cal., was unable to be present.

Nineteen years ago Mr. and Mrs. Bridges left the farm, the work being too strenuous, and came to Stuart to reside, Laying aside the hard toil which they had had to endure during their early life. Mr. Bridges died twelve years ago and since that time his wife has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Imes at Stuart, Iowa.

The deceased had been an invalid for about twenty-two years, suffering intensely at times with pains in her head but bearing her suffering with fortitude. Her smiling countenance and her cheerfulness will be greatly missed in the home where she has lived so many years and by her friends. She was ambitious, always having on hand some kind of sewing, doing all the work by hand. She enjoyed good hearing and eyesight. Her last illness lasted only ten days.

She united with the Christian church about fifty years ago and up until the time when she became an invalid, twenty-two years ago, enjoyed the active fellowship of the church.

The funeral services were held at the Imes home Monday, September 23, at 8:30 a.m. conducted by Rev. Couch, pastor of the Christian church. Interment took place in the Fairview cemetery, Madison county, and the remains laid at rest beside those of her husband. At the cemetery six of her grandsons acted as pall bearers. Mrs. Bridges leaves beside her children, twenty-two grandchildren and two great grandchildren to mourn her loss.

The relatives present were: Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis, Griswold; Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Lucas, Winterset; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hodson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Croft and children, Austin Bridges, Earlham; Mrs. Clark Hunter, Dexter; Benton Bridges, son, and Mrs. Imes, daughter, reside at Stuart.

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