Thelma Brown Bridges Calhoun -- Wife of a Correctional Officer

 

Roscoe and Thelma Bridges Calhoun

Thelma Brown Bridges was born on April 12, 1914 in Trigg County, Kentucky.  She was the oldest of five children of  Sheffer Brown Bridges and Enolia Berd Downs Bridges. Sheffer was a farmer, car salesman and service station operator.  Both Sheffer and Enolia were natives of Trigg County.  Thelma was a descendant of Drewry Bridges.

Thelma’s siblings were Nina Pearl Bridges, born in 1916 and married Joe Clifford Taylor; John Lacy Bridges, born in 1917 and married Maureen Williams and later married Norma Helen Angloff; Howard McKinley Bridges, born in 1920 and married Helen Panter and later married Dorotha Deon English; and Joel Robert Bridges, born in 1923 and married Frances Marie English and then married Alma L. Albright and later married Lucille Delgado.  Thelma had two half-sisters from her father’s second marriage to Myrtle Lucille Creamer.  They were Nancy Evelyn Bridges, born in 1933 and married Charles E. Crabtree and later married Joseph Monroe Chisenhall and Mary Louise Bridges, born in 1934 and married John Herman Herndon.

On September 7, 1935, Thelma married Marvin Roscoe Calhoun on the lawn of her father’s home in the Linton community with Rev. Brantly Boaz conducting the wedding ceremony. Roscoe was born on May 5, 1909 in Trigg County, the fifth child born to Henry Lee Calhoun and Fredonia Avis “Donie” Ricks Calhoun.  Henry was a farmer and both he and Donie were natives of Trigg County.  

Thelma and Roscoe begin their early married life in the Lock E community on Donaldson Creek where Roscoe worked as a farmer on his father’s farm. Later in his life Roscoe worked as a correctional officer at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky.  He retired from the penitentiary in 1974 after working over 16 years at the institution.  Thelma worked at the Hilltop Kash Market on the Canton Road for ten years, retiring in 1985.  She also worked at the Heritage House in Cadiz for five years

Thelma and Roscoe were the parents of five daughters, Virginia Murl Calhoun, born in 1936 and married James Warren Stubblefield; Stella Pearl Calhoun, born in 1940 and married James Carlton Jones; Margaret Jewell Calhoun, born in 1943 and married Clarence Hopson Thomas, Jr.; Wanda Gail Calhoun, born in 1945 and married Thomas Anthony DeName; and Bobbie Marie Calhoun, born in 1947 and married Harold Denny Mize and later married Joel Atchison.

Roscoe died on January 21, 1996 at the age of 86 at the Shady Lawn Nursing Center in Trigg County.  He was buried in the Lawrence Cemetery in Trigg County.  Thelma died on August 7, 2013 at the age of 99 at the Shady Lawn Nursing Center.  She was buried in the Lawrence Cemetery next to her husband.

Thelma Bridges Calhoun

 

Roscoe Calhoun

 

A young Thelma and Roscoe

 

Thelma and Roscoe tombstone

LINEAGE: (Thelma Brown Bridges was the daughter of Sheffer Brown and Enolia Berd Downs Bridges.  Sheffer was the fourth child of John Richard and Nancy Bell Meador Bridges.  John was the fifth 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.)

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