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THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY........ 
 
These are the family members who vanished.
After years of searching, I have been unable to find them.
Any help in locating them would be very much appreciated.  
 
 
 
 
William and Sarah (Castator) Baker are listed on the 1850 census of Shelby County, Indiana with daughters, Mary, Nancy, Prudence, and Elmira.
Part of the family went to Page county, Iowa in the fall of 1850, the others followed a few years later.
William died Sept. 1, 1850.
Mary married in Johnson county, Indiana in 1851.
Prudence married in Page County, Iowa in 1853.
The mother, Sarah, remarried in Page County, Iowa in 1856.
Elmira married in Nodaway County, Missouri in 1858.
Nancy disappeared. She was born January 19, 1832 in Indiana.
 
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MISSING BRIDGES CHILDREN 

 

This is all one family (same father with 3 different mothers).
Birth dates are estimated from census ages.

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Last record was in Montgomery Co., Iowa in 1856.
JOHN M. BRIDGES, b. Abt. 1837, Ohio.
OLIVER D. BRIDGES, b. Abt. 1843, Indiana. (one census calls him Obediah D.)

Not with the family in 1860 in Missouri.
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Last record was in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri in 1860.
SARAH A. BRIDGES, b. Abt. 1856, Iowa.

Not with the family in 1870 in Kansas.

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Last record was in Brown Co., Kansas in 1870

JAMES P. BRIDGES, b. Abt. 1851, Indiana.

MARY FRANCES BRIDGES, b. Abt. 1855, IA

Not with the family in 1875 in Crawford County.
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Last record was in Olathe, Johnson Co., Kansas in 1900.
WILLIAM BRIDGES, b. Abt. 1865, Missouri. Single in 1900. His mother, ELMIRA BRIDGES, b. 1843, Indiana, was with him.

No record of Elmira after 1900.

I FOUND William. He went to Kansas City and married there. Still need a death record for Elmira)
(The father had died in Crawford County, Ks. in 1887)

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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)

1875-Crawford County, Kansas (wife-Elmira Baker)
1880-Crawford County, Kansas (wife-Elmira Baker)
1900-(Elmira) Olathe, Johnson Co., Kansas (living with son, William)

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Any help appreciated. 

James R. Baker, Jr.

jrbakerjr@yahoo.com

 
 
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