Bridges was married to the former Miss Forrest Cobb (November 14, 1880 – December 18, 1947) of Athens. The couple had two daughters, Mrs. Helen Moss of Erath in Vermilion Parish in south Louisiana, later Helen Gallien of Columbus, [[Mississippi]], and Mary Elise Bridges, a former Webster Parish schoolteacher then living in [[Baton Rouge]]. Later, she was Mary Hilzim (1908–1988) of Minden, the wife of R. H. "Buster" Hilzim (1883–1961). Henry and Forrest Bridges had four sons, Henry L. Bridges, Jr. (1903–1962), who died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-nine;<ref>"Heart Attack Fatal to H. L. Bridges, Jr., Rites Tomorrow," ''Minden Herald'', May 17, 1962, p. 1.</ref> Forrest Lee Bridges (1912–1973), who ran for ward marshal in 1948,<ref>''Minden Herald'', August 27, 1948, p. 8.</ref> and Jack Clifford Bridges, Sr. (1917–1977), all of Minden, and Lewell Bridges (1910–1980) of [[Shreveport]].<ref name=obit/><ref>Minden Cemetery records</ref>
Like his oldest son, Bridges died of a heart attack while he was returning home from observing a golf game. He was sixty-four and a [[Methodist]]. Pastors of Methodist, [[Presbyterian]], and [[Baptist]] churches conducted his services. He is interred beside family members at Minden Cemetery.<ref name=obit/> Son Lee Bridges was an inspector for the City of Minden and a former municipal sanitation superintendent. He died at the age of sixty in a boating accident in 1973 on Toledo Bend Reservoir near Many in Sabine Parish, in the company of his friend Albert Simolke (1917–1976) of Minden. Lee Bridges and his wife, the former Roba Watson (1917–2010), had two children, Roba Leah Bridges Miller (born 1949), and her husband, Clifton Ayres "Clif " Miller(1947-2015), then a Haynesville native who was a mathematics professor at LSU Shreveport and the University of Texas Permian Basin in [[MonroeOdessa]], Louisiana|Monroe[[Texas]], and later from <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/shreveporttimes/name/clifton-miller-obituary?id=18516758|title=Clifton Miller obituary|publisher=''The ShreveportTimes''|date=August 6, 2015|accessdate=November 11, 2023}}</ref> and Henry Watson Bridges (born 1950-2023), who for a time from 1975 to 2015 was a banker in Mindenand other locations.<ref>"Lee Bridges Dies in Boating Accident", ''Minden Press-Herald'', June 4, 1973, p. 1</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/obituaries/plou0623447|title=Henry Bridges obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=November 10, 2023|accessdate=November 11, 2023}}</ref>
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