Mary Catherine Bridgman

Mary Catherine Bridgman was born 1837, in Campbell County, Tennessee.  She was the daughter of Isaac Bridgman and Jane Butler.

About 1849 Mary's family moved from Tennessee to Georgia. 

The 1850 Walker County, Georgia census shows twelve year old Mary at home with her parents and siblings.

Mary Catherine married Joseph Sampson Lafayette Stanfield in 1860, in Georgia. 

Joseph Sampson Stanfield was born about 1837, in Kentucky, the son of James Sampson Stanfield and Hannah Rosanna Broyles.  James Stanfield was born May 8, 1815, in Knox County, Kentucky and died September 12, 1886, in Sebastian County, Arkansas.  He was the son of Sampson Lafayette Stanfield (b. 1768, NC; d. 1837, KY) and Nancy Elizabeth Thomas (b. 1770, NC; d. 1855, KY).  Hannah Rosanna Broyles was born in 1818.  Joseph Sampson Stanfield's sister, Elizabeth Stanfield, married Mary Catherine's brother, William T. Bridgman.

Joseph and Mary Catherine's only child was born in February 1861.  

Joseph and Mary Catherine both died of yellow fever in the summer of 1861, at Pond Springs, in Walker County, Georgia. They are buried in the Moat (or Moad) Cemetery on Pigeon Mountain between LaFayette and Chickamauga in Walker County, according to information provided by Steve Strickland.

Mary Catherine's mother, Jane, took their infant daughter to raise. Jane, however, died the following year.  With the death of her grandmother, little Hannah was raised by her great-uncle, Miller Creed Butler, with whom she lived until her marriage. 

Child of Joseph Sampson Stanfield and Mary Catherine Bridgman