Edgecombe-Newhanover County NcArchives Obituaries.....Bridgers, Col. R. R. 1888
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The Charlotte News
11 Dec 1888

Col. Bridgers Dead.

News reached the city today that Col. R.R. Bridgers, president of the 
Wilmington and Weldon, and Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad 
companies, died suddenly in Columbia yesterday afternoon. It is stated that he 
dropped dead while delivering an address at the railroad meeting in that city. 
His body was conveyed to his home in Wilmington for interment.

Col. Bridgers was one of the oldest railroad men in North Carolina, having 
been president of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad continously for twenty-
five years past. He was, we believe, about 70 years of age, and was born in 
Edgecombe County, this State. He graduated at Chapel Hill and was a member of 
the Confederate Congress, lower house. 

He leaves a wife and five children, two girls and three boys. In the death of 
Col. Bridgers our State loses a valuable man. He was particularly successful 
as a railroad manager, and there was not a more popular railroad president in 
all the Southern States.


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