Deaths Registered in the Town of Brookfield for the Year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
No.: 43
Date of Death: Sept 1/[18]89
Name: Benj B Bridge
Sex: M
Condition: M
Age: 73 [birth about 1816]
Cause: Heart Disease
Place of Death: Brookfield
Occupation: Machinist
Place of Birth: Westfield
Parents: Asa & Josie
Birthplaces of Parents: Warwick
[Note: No such couple as Asa & Josie Bridge, nor any children born to them, have been found. The only Westfield birth to a Bridge in 1816 is to Joseph Bridge and is named Charlotte. this is copied correctly from the town record. The explanation for this discrepancy is not known, but it must be a clerical error since the gravestone matches the birthdate found in Northfield.]