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John Bridges Met Untimely Death Monday.


Community Is saddened By Death Of Young Son Of Mr. and
Mrs. J. O. Bridges


John Bridges, the second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
Bridges, met a sudden and untimely death Monday
morning shortly before noon.


John was riding horseback and was racing on Flowers
Drive with his friend and schoolmate, Edwin Barham,
who was driving his father's automobile. Spectators
say that the horse and automobile were side by side as
they made the turn at Whitchard's commissary, and,
when the boys reached the next corner converging into
Columbia street, the horse and car collided on the
side of the car.  The horse fell with John in such a
way as to crush his skull.  He was taken to a
physician's office and the physician pronounced his
condition so grave that he had better be taken to a
hospital at once and Dr. Holland started with him to
Dothan, but the young man expired just a few miles out
from the city. 


John was only 18 years of age and graduated from the
Blakely High School last summer.  He had entered Emory
University last fall as a student in the medical
department.  He was at home on his Christmas vacation,
and was to have returned to Atlanta Sunday night, but
for some cause had postponed leaving another day.  


John was splendid Christain boy ____________people's
organizations of the Blakely Baptist Church.  The
saddenness of his taking off cast a pall of gloom over
the entire community and the county at large. His
funeral took place from the Baptist church at 3:30
o'clock Tuesday afternoon, the large auditorium being
filled to its capacity with sympathizing friends and
relatives of the bereaved family.


The floral tributes were surpassingly beautiful and
profuse, banked around the pulpit platform they
covered every available space and presented a scene of
lavish beauty.


The choir sang several beautiful numbers of the old
familiar hymns.  Pastor Hartsfield's tribute to John's
splendid Christain character was feeling and generous
and he held up the life of the deceased as a pattern
for those who sat under his voice and new him during
his joyous youth.  John had remembered his Creator in
the days of his youth and no evil days can now come to
mar his memory.


Interment followed at the Blakely cemetery, many
lingering there with his loved ones until the last
touch was added to his tomb and it was buried under
the heaps of beautiful blossoms.


The deceased is survived by his parents and four
brothers - Don, Frank, Bradley and Perry Bridges.


It is sad to give up one whose influence among men
would doubtless have been for good; who by precept and
example was so well calculated to spread abroad the
blesses influence of godly living.  Yet He who doeth
all things well makes no mistakes.  The human link
snapped asunder on earth is forged anew in heaven.
The yearning parents mourn not as one without hope.
It is true that when beautiful youth is gone, not much
of life remains; hence the dear one's eyes are closed
to all earthly trials.  In his springtime of
enthusiasm and tenderness, ere the sunshine of hope
and joy was extinguished, he passed to the glorious
beyond.


Source:  Volume LXVI, No. 19 Early County News,
Blakely, Georgia, Thursday Evening, January 6, 1927.
Front Page.


John Oscar Bridges, Jr. was born 25 November 1907 and
died 03 January 1927. His parents where John Oscar
Bridges, Sr. and Caroline Ward Blackshear.

Submitted by: Brenda King McNair <Bmcnair614@aol.com> 

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