This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bridgford, Lamb, Cromwell, Redd, Barton, Mortimore, Weatherill, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1481 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. January 12, 1939. "Mrs. Sarah Bridgford A Long-Time Resident".--Following an article in the Argus-Herald several weeks ago descriptive of the wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lamb, nee Henrietta Cromwell, in which Mrs. Lamb was said to be thought the oldest native born person living in Fremont county, comes a challenge from another pioneer, Mrs. Sarah Bridgford, who still lives on the farm on which she was born, June 9, 1853, though she cannot claim a continuous residence during all that time. Garrison Berry Redd, father of Mrs. Bridgford, came to Fremont county in 1850 from Platte county, Mo., and lived a short time northwest of Sidney and then moved to a farm five miles southeast of town, buying it from the government in 1854 for $1.25 per acre. Mr. Redd died in 1873, and his wife and part of their family lived on the farm until her death in August 1920, the farm never changing hands until her death. Their daughter, Sarah, was married on Dec. 24, 1882, to Eli Bridgford, and moved with her husband to Frontier county, Nebr., where they homesteaded 160 acres of land. Before they had finished proving up on the Nebraska land, Mr. Bridgford died, leaving his wife and six small children. They lived on the land until she had finished proving upon it in 1893, when Grover Cleveland was president, and she still owns the Nebraska land. Mrs. Bridgford had bought part of the home place in Fremont county, and later returned here to live. She is still very active and enjoys going to celebrations in the neighboring towns as well as to the Sidney Rodeo, family picnics and all kinds of family gatherings. She still raises her own garden, and leads a very active outdoor life in mild weather. When cold weather comes, she crochets almost constantly making doilies, table and dresser scarves and also does much of her own sewing. She is one of a family of nine children, a brother, G. B. Redd, living near Sidney, and two sisters, Mrs. Martha Barton and Mrs. Elizabeth Barton living at Riverton. Mrs. Bridgford's children, who are all married, are Mrs. Charles Mortimore of Stockville, Nebr.; Mrs. John Weatherill of Shenandoah; Mrs. Art Mortimore and E.G. Bridgford of Hamburg; and J. W. Bridgford, who, with his wife live with her on the old home place, though in a separate house.