Chapman, TX, United States
Bridges Cemetery. Eli and Eliza Buckner moved from Georgia to the Chapman community in 1851. Eliza died in 1857; when Eli died in 1861 he left a half-acre of land including their graves for use as a public burial ground. The Reverend Julius Caesar Alford Bridges of Georgia married Mary Ann Cosper in
1857 in Alabama. Some years later, they left that state with their ten children in twenty covered wagons and settled in Chapman. Bridges, a Confederate veteran, purchased the land on which the Buckne
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