Ambie Bridges
Vernon Bridges
Twyman Hughes
Nora Ambie Bridges was born on May 5, 1907 in the Chestnut Grove area of Trigg County, Kentucky. She was the second of four children born to John Robert Bridges and Georgia Mae Hargrove Bridges. John Robert was a farmer and both he and Georgia were natives of Trigg County. John Robert was a son of Starkie Bridges.
Ambie’s siblings were Norris Thomas Bridges, born in 1904 and married Lucy Parthenia Lancaster and later married Lona Carter; Bessie Pearl Bridges, born in 1910 and married Hugh Calhoun and later married Thomas Garner Ralston; and James Hershel Bridges, born in 1912 and married Beulah Belle Bellamy. Ambie’s father, John Robert had a second marriage to Jessie Lee Williams. This marriage produced five half-siblings for Ambie, Rosie Clyde Bridges, born in 1921 and married Herbert K. Lowe; Cordie Hugh Bridges, born in 1923 and married Carrie Loueva Millay; Robert Louis Bridges, born in 1925 and married Dorothy Jean Barton; Nellie Marie Bridges, born in 1927 and married William Pemberton; and Faithie Helen Bridges, born in 1932 and married Hubert Rex Burden.
Ambie grew up on the Beechy Fork Creek in the Maple Grove community of Trigg County in the home of her grandmother, Elizabeth “Betsy” Lawrence Bridges. Ambie’s grandfather had died before she was born and her mother, Georgia, died when Ambie was six years old. It was in the Maple Grove community that Ambie met her husband, Mount Vernon Bridges.
Ambie married Mount Vernon Bridges on March 7, 1924 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Vernon was born on March 30, 1891 on the Beechy Fork Creek in the Maple Grove community, the fourth of five children of William Henry Bridges and Sarah Elizabeth “Sadie” Lancaster Bridges. William Henry was a farmer and he and Sadie were both natives of Trigg County. William Henry was a son of Drewry Bridges.
Vernon’s siblings were Mollie Lackey Bridges, born in 1882 and died at the age of one; Samuel Henry Bridges, born in 1885 and married Inez Agnes Thomas; William Stanley “Willie” Bridges, born in 1886 and married Bessie Earl Ricks and later married Orene Noel; and Daisy Pearl Bridges, born in 1896 and married James Orval “Jake” Allen.
After Ambie and Vernon were married, they settled into a small house on his father’s farm near the “Little Spring” on Beechy Fork Creek. There Ambie helped Vernon raise his three children by a former marriage to Dannie Agnes Noel, who had died before his marriage to Ambie. Vernon worked as a farmer in the Maple Grove community.
Vernon had married his first wife, Dannie Agnes Noel, on December 10, 1910 in Stewart County, Tennessee. Dannie Agnes was born on August 11, 1892 in Trigg County and was the daughter of Thomas S. Noel and Veturia Tura Cunningham Noel. Both Thomas and Veturia were natives of Trigg County. Dannie Agnes died on January 20, 1923 at the age of 30. She was buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in the Blue Spring community in Trigg County.
In 1941 Ambie and Vernon moved from their farmhouse into the home with Vernon’s parents as they were aging and their health was failing. Vernon continued to work as a farmer and as a timberman. They lived on the farm until Vernon’s death.
Ambie and Vernon were the parents of three children in addition to his three children by his first wife. The children of Vernon and Dannie Agnes are Lonnie Murl Bridges, born in 1915 and married Dorothy Mae Curling; Myrtle Rhea Bridges, born in1918 and married Elmo Ryner Hendricks; and Lacy Wade “Dink” Bridges, born in 1921 and married Martha Ann Bryant. The children of Vernon and Ambie are Cecil Vernon “Bill” Bridges, born in 1925 and married Dorothy Nell Guier; Sadie Mae Bridges, born in 1929 and married Howard Blane Wyatt; and Glenda Faye Bridges, born in 1941 and married Jerry Bernard Lawrence.
Vernon died on May 21, 1951 at the age of 60 at the Jennie Stuart Hospital in Hopkinsville, Kentucky of a stroke following an earlier heart attack. He was buried in the Allen Cemetery in Trigg County.
After Vernon’s death, Ambie, along with her youngest child, Glenda, moved to Cadiz. Ambie operated a restaurant in Cadiz until 1953 when she married her second husband, Twyman Mason Hughes.
Ambie married Twyman Mason Hughes in September 1953. Twyman was born on May 20, 1914 and was the youngest of three children of Mason Hamilton Hughes, Jr. and Mattie Pearl Thomas Hughes. Mason was a farmer and both he and Mattie were natives of Trigg County. Mattie was a descendant of Starkie Thomas.
Twyman’s siblings were Eliza Dell Hughes, born in 1904 and married Thomas Perry Gentry and Hazie Irbell Hughes, born in 1911 and married John Clayton Light.
Twyman had married his first wife, Eldo Myra Boyd, on October 10, 1934. She was the daughter of James Permetus Boyd and Sally Belle Baker Boyd. James was a farmer and both he and Sally were natives of Trigg County. Twyman and Myra were the parents of one child, Annette Hughes, born in 1948 and married Howard Thomas Skinner. Myra died on April 1, 1951 at the age of 37. She was buried in the Lawrence Cemetery in Trigg County.
Twyman was a farmer and after his marriage to Ambie, they moved into his farm home located In the Oak Grove community. A few years later, Twyman sold the farm and he and Ambie moved back to Cadiz. Twyman worked with the Kentucky Department of Highways and later at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky. He also worked at several part-time positions during this period including with the Ben Franklin Store and driving a school bus for the Trigg County School System.
Twyman died on October 6, 1981 at the age of 67 at the Jennie Stuart Hospital in Hopkinsville. He was buried I the Lawrence Cemetery. Ambie died on April 3, 1986 at the age of 78 at the Trigg County Hospital in Cadiz. She was buried in the Allen Cemetery.
Ambie tombstone
Vernon tombstone
Twyman tombstone
LINEAGE: (Nora Ambie Bridges was the daughter of John Robert and Georgia Mae Hargrove Bridges. John was the second child of Starkie T. and Elizabeth W. Lawrence Bridges. Starkie was the second child of William and Mary Thomas Bridges. William was the fourth child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges.)
(Mount Vernon Bridges was the son of William Henry and Sarah Elizabeth “Sadie” Lancaster Bridges. William Henry was the fourth child of Drewry and Peachie Ann Tart Bridges. Drewry was the fourth child of William and Mary Thomas Bridges. William was the fourth child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges.)
(Twyman Mason Hughes was the son of Mason Hamilton, Jr. and Mattie Pearl Thomas Hughes. Mattie was the first child of Wesley Gunn and Eliza L. Henderson Thomas. Wesley Gunn was the sixth child of Stanley and Emily Ann Light Thomas. Stanley was the second child of Starkie and Mary Bridges Thomas. Starkie was the fourth child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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