BRIDGEPORT FRIENDS CEMETERY LOCATION MAPThe Bridgeport Friends Meeting Cemetery is in the woods off Leektown Road, just outside the chain link fence surrounding the adjacent Adams-Leek-McKeen Cemetery. A casual observer may well think that the three visable standing tombstones are a part of the Adams-Leek-McKeen Cemetery, but they would be mistaken. The GPS coordinates of the Bridgeport Friends Meeting Cemetery are: 39.619072,-74.494944.
A word of caution- Before venturing into the woods, it is recommended that you spray your feet and lower legs with an anti-bug spray, as chiggers can be a problem. This warning comes from experience. |
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LUCY EVANS AT RESTAs you walk into the woods, around the trees and up the hill, you will finally see four tombstones (one is very short and difficult to see) and one footstone rising up through the underbrush. The most noteworthy is that of Lucy Evans, one of the active ministers of the Bridgeport Meeting. You can easily identify Lucy's tombstone because of it's scalloped shaped top. Rather fancy for a Quaker! The inscription reads . . . IN memory of LUCY ANN EVANS wife of Jesse Evans who departed this life September the 18th 1934 in the 65 year of her age.
Lucy Evans is mentioned in the early Bridgeport Friends Meeting Minutes which can be read here - CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE BASS RIVER NECK AND BRIDGEPORT FRIENDS MEETING MINUTES. Use your Browser's BACK ARROW to return to this page. Lucy is also discussed in Henry H. Bisbee's introduction to "Martha- The Complete Furnace Diary & Journal: 1808-1815". Lucy's husband, Jesse, was the Iron Master at Martha at the time the diary was written. There's an interesting twist as Jesse Evan's second wife was also named Lucy Ann. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE MARTHA DIARY INTRODUCTION REFERENCING LUCY AND JESSE EVANS. Start looking around page 8 for references to Jesse and Lucy Evans. |
Stephen Eichinger, a Trustee of the Old Bridgeport Memorial Society that owns and maintains the adjacent Adams-Leek-McKeen Cemetery, pays his respects to the memory of Lucy Evans and all that she meant to the history of the local area. Steve, informally, looks after the remaining tombstones in the Bridgeport Friends Meeting graveyard.
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