Loulie Bridgers was born in Tarboro, Edgecombe Co, NC, the 2nd of 4 known children (2 boys / 2 girls) born to lawyer and CSA Col. John L. Bridgers and his (2nd) wife, Mary Elizabeth Battle.
She is the paternal grandchild of John Bridgers & Elizabeth Kettewells Rouse of Edgecombe, and the paternal grandchild of Joseph Sumner Battle & Mary Anne Horne of Edgecombe.
Loulie was 14 years old when her father died, and she lived with her widowed mother and siblings until her mother died in 1918.
Loulie Bridgers never married. For most of her adult life, she was the Librarian at the Bridgers School in Tarboro, a school that once stood at the east end of the Tarboro Town Commons. Her younger sister, Mary Horne Bridgers, was the Principal of The Bridgers School. The school was constructed in 1910 and demolished in the 1970s.
Both sisters lived together in the now historic "Bridgers House", at 1201 St. Andrew Street, the Victorian Cottage their father built for the family after they left "The Grove". Their home still stands today (2007) in Tarboro and is registered with the National Historic District.
Loulie died at about age 78.
She is the paternal grandchild of John Bridgers & Elizabeth Kettewells Rouse of Edgecombe, and the paternal grandchild of Joseph Sumner Battle & Mary Anne Horne of Edgecombe.
Loulie was 14 years old when her father died, and she lived with her widowed mother and siblings until her mother died in 1918.
Loulie Bridgers never married. For most of her adult life, she was the Librarian at the Bridgers School in Tarboro, a school that once stood at the east end of the Tarboro Town Commons. Her younger sister, Mary Horne Bridgers, was the Principal of The Bridgers School. The school was constructed in 1910 and demolished in the 1970s.
Both sisters lived together in the now historic "Bridgers House", at 1201 St. Andrew Street, the Victorian Cottage their father built for the family after they left "The Grove". Their home still stands today (2007) in Tarboro and is registered with the National Historic District.
Loulie died at about age 78.
Loulie Bridgers was born in Tarboro, Edgecombe Co, NC, the 2nd of 4 known children (2 boys / 2 girls) born to lawyer and CSA Col. John L. Bridgers and his (2nd) wife, Mary Elizabeth Battle.
She is the paternal grandchild of John Bridgers & Elizabeth Kettewells Rouse of Edgecombe, and the paternal grandchild of Joseph Sumner Battle & Mary Anne Horne of Edgecombe.
Loulie was 14 years old when her father died, and she lived with her widowed mother and siblings until her mother died in 1918.
Loulie Bridgers never married. For most of her adult life, she was the Librarian at the Bridgers School in Tarboro, a school that once stood at the east end of the Tarboro Town Commons. Her younger sister, Mary Horne Bridgers, was the Principal of The Bridgers School. The school was constructed in 1910 and demolished in the 1970s.
Both sisters lived together in the now historic "Bridgers House", at 1201 St. Andrew Street, the Victorian Cottage their father built for the family after they left "The Grove". Their home still stands today (2007) in Tarboro and is registered with the National Historic District.
Loulie died at about age 78.
She is the paternal grandchild of John Bridgers & Elizabeth Kettewells Rouse of Edgecombe, and the paternal grandchild of Joseph Sumner Battle & Mary Anne Horne of Edgecombe.
Loulie was 14 years old when her father died, and she lived with her widowed mother and siblings until her mother died in 1918.
Loulie Bridgers never married. For most of her adult life, she was the Librarian at the Bridgers School in Tarboro, a school that once stood at the east end of the Tarboro Town Commons. Her younger sister, Mary Horne Bridgers, was the Principal of The Bridgers School. The school was constructed in 1910 and demolished in the 1970s.
Both sisters lived together in the now historic "Bridgers House", at 1201 St. Andrew Street, the Victorian Cottage their father built for the family after they left "The Grove". Their home still stands today (2007) in Tarboro and is registered with the National Historic District.
Loulie died at about age 78.
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