Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 14, 1884, Mar­ga­rets­ville, North Car­o­li­na.

Died: May 27, 1948, At­lan­ta, Georg­ia.

Buried: Alta Vista cemetery, Gaines­ville, Georg­ia.

Bridgers at­tend­ed As­bu­ry Coll­ege in Wil­more, Ken­tucky. He be­gan preach­ing at age 17, and was or­dained a Meth­od­ist min­is­ter. He served as an evan­gel­ist in the Amer­i­can South and in mis­sion work in Bel­gium, Czech­o­slo­vak­ia, and Rus­sia. He pas­tored in Georg­ia and North Car­o­li­na be­fore re­tir­ing in 1945 in Gaines­ville, Georg­ia.

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Hymns

  1. He Keeps Me Singing
  2. Some Day, It Won’t Be Long