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    1. U.S. Marshal Jack Bridges (John Lyman Bridges) and Robert Tally Bridges
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TS.2ADE/1755 Message Board Post: Historian needs your help, I am looking for any family member pertaining to Jack Bridges (John Lyman Bridges) of Pembrook Maine, born 1833 or 1837 or 1839. He married Ada Duer of Iowa. He once lived in Mobile Alabama a sailor. At the outbreak of the Civil war, he went North to Kansas and joined the Union Army Faught at Lexington, he was a redleg rider knwon as Jack Beauregard, he lived in levingworth. He was a U.S. Deputy Marshal in Hays City Kansas 1869 to 1876, also he was the City Marshal of Dodge City 1882 to 1884. He was a Rocky Mountain Detective in Denver Colorado, he also had one son born in 1882, John F. Bridges he was shot dead in Yuma Arizona 1913, he also had a nephew, Robert Tally Bridges who sold the Marshals personall belongings to Frank Parker in Nickerson Kansas, March 3rd 1910. The Marshal died in Ward County Texas, October 1915, I am looking for live family members or any information pertaining to this group of Bridges. You will go down in Western and U.S. Marshal History. Historian Lewis Charles Wagner, Tucson Arizona

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