Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Basil Bridge
<>BASIL BRIDGE
Basil Bridge, in 1834, bought a farm of
114 acres, now the L. Myers place, just southeast of Richwood, from one
of the Clarks, and settled upon it with his large family. It was
then a dense wilderness. He was a native of Canada, but moved to
New York in 1812 and enlisted in the American Army, though then but
sixteen years old. In 1814, he married Almira Warner, a native of
Vermont, and in 1815 emigrated to Ohio, settling in Ames Township,
Athens County; thence he removed to the Scioto River in Delaware
County, and to Claibourne in 1834. He died in 1859 in Marion
County. His widow survived until December, 1874. Of their
ten children, the oldest, Sarah Jane, the wife of John Dilsaver, is the
only resident of Union County.