Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bridges, Oscar, 1958 

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OSCAR BRIDGES 

OSCAR BRIDGES, 78, DIES IN GAS FLAMES, ORGIN UNKNOWN 

   HUNTERDALE - A tragic accident Tuesday morning around 10 a.m. took the life 
of 78-year old Oscar Bridges of Hunterdale.

   Bridges perished in flames from a fire somehow started at a gas pump in 
the yard of the Hunterdale Dairy.

   No one saw how the fire started.  S.M. Joyner of Hunterdale, who was in a 
building nearby, said he heard what sounded like "somebody kind of hollering 
and groaning."

   "I heard it twice," he said. "I ran to the door of the building and saw a 
man coming towards me, his clothes on fire.  The flames reached up above his 
head."

   Bridges fell about 30 or 40 yards from the gas pump, probably as he fell.

   No empty tanks or cans were around the tank.  Joyner said that sometimes 
the elderly man rinsed his hands off with gas.  A spark could have ignited 
the gas.

   Grass around the tank was burned.

   Bridges‘ clothes were completely burned off, Joyner said.  Dr. Henry 
Gardner reached the scene shortly after the accident.

   Bridges did odd jobs around the dairy.  Among the survivors are his son, 
Gordon, who operates the dairy, and his wife.

   Funeral services have been set for this morning (Thursday) at 11 a.m. in 
Holland Funeral Chapel.  Rev. Melvin Dollar of Norfolk and Rev. Joe French of 
Hunterdale will conduct the services.

   Burial will be in the Poplar Spring cemetery.

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OSCAR BRIDGES 

   Funeral services for Oscar Bridges, 78, who was fatally burned Dec. 9 at 
Hunterdale Farms, were conducted Dec. 11 at 11 a.m. at the Holland Funeral 
Home by the Rev. Joe E. French, pastor of Hunterdale Christian Church, and 
the Rev. Melvin Dollar of Portsmouth, associate superintendent of the Southern 
Convention.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Edgar Blythe, R.C. Mountcastle , H. Hunter Scott, Vernon 
Scott, Larry Overby, Irvin Blythe, E.F. Spivey and R.E. Green.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Lelia Warren Bridges and son of the late 
Columbus and Mrs. Nancy Green Bridges.

   A native of Alabama, he moved here about 27 years ago.  He was a member of 
the Hunterdale Christian Church.

   Besides his wife, surviving are one son, Gordon Bridges of Franklin; five 
grandchildren; one brother, Coron Bridges of Meriweather, N.C.; two sisters, 
Miss Bessie Bridges of Rutherfordton, N.C., and Mrs. Maude Beggerstaff of 
Caroleen, N.C.


Oscar BRIDGES, 
AL native, fatally burned 9 Dec 1958, at work, Hunterdale Dairy, age 78, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 193*), Franklin, 
   11 Dec 1958, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 11, 1958, Sect. I, p. 7; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 18, 1958, Sect. II, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 


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