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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I haven't bothered to go across the ocean to England, but here, if you can stand it, is my direct lineage to that time. I'll leave out all the brothers and sisters and just stick to the direct ancestors. Well, I have to leave in one or two brothers, just because of their military service.
James Bradfield: (No birth date listed), South Wales, Great Britain. Listed as living on the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1785, and in Loudon County, Virginia, in 1787
Elizabeth Lorentz: 1765, Wales
Married around 1785 - 2 sons
Lewis B. Bradfield: 1786, Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia – 1870, Uniontown Alabama. His younger brother John served in the War of 1812.
Mary C. “Polly” Farrar: December 20, 1788, Rockingham County, North Carolina – 1855, LaGrange, Georgia
Married November 24, 1807 - 6 sons, 3 daughters. The youngest son served in the Confederate army.
William Bradfield: April 15, 1813 – November 7, 1893, Madison, North Carolina
Ann Elizabeth Talley: July 4, 1822, Green County, Georgia – November 7, 1893, Madison, North Carolina - 1 daughter, 6 sons
BRADFIELD, WILLIAM
Headline: Two Madison news items
Abstract: Death notice for William Bradfield.
Subject term: Bradfield, William, d.1899
Subject term: Death notices -- 19th century
Newspaper: Reidsville Weekly Review 06/09/1899: December 2, 1843, Troup County, Georgia – March 7, 1932, Austin, Texas
Served in Company E, 1st Texas Regiment, Hood’s Brigade, Longstreet’s Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. His younger brother, John Anderson Bradfield, served in Company F, 4th Texas, Hood's Brigade.
Louisa A. Estes: I have no other information on her, or when they were married - 2 sons
Robert Olin Bradfield: October 24, 1889 – July 1, 1965, Dallas, Texas
Blandena Frances Safronia Keller: July 28, 1895, Dallas, Texas – May 22, 1973, Dallas, Texas
Married January 1914 - 7 sons, 3 daughters
Donald Edward Bradfield: December 11, 1927, Dallas, Texas – July 19, 2012, Redondo Beach, California
US Navy, 1947-1949. He had two older brothers who were at Pearl Harbor, and several more served in the war, but I have no details.
Doris Gwendolyn Sutton: December 12, 1927
Married 1949, Divorced 1958 - 1 son - me 
Barbara Daily: November 23, 1939
Married August 1, 1961 - 1 daughter, 1 son
Now aren't you sorry you asked? |
SInce William/Talley are a known historical couple here, thought I would do some research for you. You probably know of most of this. William was the richest man in his county around 1861. Ann Talley was considered one, if not, the most beautiful woman in the South. I think I found where I can get an earlier picture of her in Madison, would like to see for myself.
He also served in the CW.
"He was Quartermaster of the 7th Texas Regiment, CSA until the fall of Fort Donelson, and was afterwards Provost Marshal at Marshall, Texas with the rank of Major".
They had another son named Charles that also served in the CW as a special messenger to Gen. Tighlman.
They had 10 Children....., although one site has it as 7.
"Major William Bradfield, a North Carolina native, was the first stationmaster and the first postmaster. He came to Mesquite in 1873 with the railroad and has been recognized by Texas historians as the first settler of Mesquite" Before that, seems he started a stagecoach and ran a large plantation in Marshall in the 50's. The RR put an end to his stagecoach business. However, his stagecoach business also worked and received payments from the CSA govt. However, he later became DIrector of the RR. Found this, thought funny
"TEXAS REPUBLICAN [MARSHALL], April 18, 1868, p. 2, c. 2
Major Bradfield upon reading the criticism of the Tyler Index upon the present management of the Southern Pacific Railroad, so far as he is concerned, and he thought he was doing pretty well. That he has taken charge of the road in December last, and, with the exception of four days, had made daily trips regularly, to and from Shreveport, carrying freight and passengers. That he had been abused during that period but by two people: the editor of the Index and an old Irish woman."
His historical marker stagecoach.
http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_d...ber=5203010197
Guess you know his Stagecoach Rd. today is considered the scariest road in Texas and they have used it numerous times in movies.
http://myetx.com/stagecoach-road/
It appears when he joined the 7th, during Fort Donelson many died or were captured, but some escape. From what I can tell, he was one that escaped and never saw action with the 7th again. He either joined Terry's Rangers for awhile or quickly became Provost. I guess his wealth and quartermaster skills with the 7th helped that.
Here is a clip of Major B's action as Provost Marshall during the CW, sounds exciting. I assume the cargo he was after was slaves.
http://books.google.com/books?id=QQd...derate&f=false
I found several of his Provost arrest and other reports, some trivial, some rather tough.
You can find him mentioned several times in the [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN" The newspaper of the day there. Give it a search, great reading.
The reason for this obit of sorts in Reidsville is that Madison was so small, it didn't have a paper then.
William also died in 1899
BRADFIELD, WILLIAM
Headline: Two Madison news items
Abstract: Death notice for William Bradfield.
Subject term: Bradfield, William, d.1899
Subject term: Death notices -- 19th century
Newspaper: Reidsville Weekly Review 06/09/1899
Ann Talley Grave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=59494100
William Grave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=59494076
Also, you have a William after a William, which should be James Olin Bradfield who served in Company E, First Texas Regiment, Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Brigade, the Army of Northern Virginia. Robert Olin is of James loins...
Robert Olin grave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=48790334. Assume you remember him.
Found this son that obviously served in the navy, John Clifford.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=76197428
You have some great history. I may be in Madison this weekend and will stop and see if they have info/pictures of them in the church that exists now. It's old, but think the original where they're buried is gone.
Did you inherit any of his money? Wonder if he lost most of it after the war? Strange they would return to Madison, as it was a small rural poor town of sorts then.....and now.
I plan to go to Basset Historical Center in Va. soon. That small town probably has the best material available for all CSA, even did the research for Michelle Obama's slave heritage. I'll see what I can pull out for your CSA family.
Forgive me for breaking the history up, worked on it as I went along. Love history.