Thursday, April 10, 2008

PETER, EDWARD, PHILLIP & MELVILLE Bridgemen Obituary

Peter, Edward, Phillip and Melville Bridgemen.
The East Liverpool Tribune
(died on January 22, 1906)

In One Grave
Four Brothers Victims of Mine Explosion are Buried
Publishers’ Press Dispatch
Huntington, W. Va. Jan 21 At Hurricane, a few miles east of this city, four brothers were buried in one grave this afternoon. They were; Peter, Edward, Phillip and Melville Bridgemen, all young men who met death by the explosion at the Detroit mines on New River, last Thursday.
The funeral was the most largely attended of any ever held here.

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