Lola Jo Bridges and Andrew Gray
Lola Jo Bridges was born on October 6, 1901 in Trigg County, Kentucky. She was the oldest of eight children born to Drew Manley Bridges and Lena Mae Guier Bridges. Drew Manley was a farmer and both he and Lena were natives of Trigg County. Lola Jo was a descendant of Starkie Bridges.
Lola Jo’s siblings were Robbie Bell Bridges, born in 1904 and married George Clyde Cunningham; Sidney Gordon Bridges, born in 1906 and married Jane Ernestine Bridges; Sarah Elizabeth Bridges, born in 1907 and married Henry Cullen Thomas; Clifton Earl Bridges, born in 1910 and married Inez Lorene Lancaster; John Thomas Bridges, born in 1915 and married Mary Henrietta Sumner; Clovis Manley Bridges, born in 1918 and married Ruby Helen Huddleston; and Mosco Doris Bridges, born in 1919 and married Myra Dean Sumner.
Lola Jo lived in the Mount Pleasant community of Trigg County in her youth and attended the local rural schools in the county.
On December 15, 1918, Lola Jo married Andrew Abner Gray at the home of Nathan G. Cunningham, a Justice of the Peace. Andrew was born on June 27, 1891 in the Mount Pleasant community of Trigg County, the son of Isaac Mason Gray and Narcissa Elizabeth Cunningham Gray. Isaac was a farmer and both he and Narcissa were natives of Trigg County. Before 1981. Andrew worked as a sharecropper in Calloway County, Kentucky before returning to Trigg County.
Lola Jo and Andrew settled in the Mount Pleasant community where Andrew worked as a farmer. They later moved to the Maple Grove community and lived on Beechy Fork Creek and then settled on a farm on the Old Dover Road. In 1953, they moved to Cadiz and Andrew worked at the Joe Nunn Sawmill and at the local pallet factory until his retirement.
Andrew and Lola Jo were the parents of five children, Homer Mason Gray, born in 1922 and died at the age of one; George Manley Gray, born in 1924 and married Marilyn Miller Clark; Stella Mae Gray, born in 1925 and married Maurice Alton Thomas; John Marshall Gray, born in 1932 and married Virginia Nell Braboy; and Lola Jewell Gray, born in 1943 and married Robert Arrice Prescott.
Andrew died on December 17, 1963 at the age of 72 at his home in Cadiz. He was buried in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Trigg County. Lola Jo died on March 9, 1985 at the age of 83 at the Trigg County Hospital in Cadiz of an apparent heart attack. She was buried in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery next to her husband.
Andrew and Lola Jo tombstone
LINEAGE: (Lola Jo Bridges was the daughter of Drew Manley and Lena Mae Guier Bridges. Drew was the seventh 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.)
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