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it is located on a sloping hill. Their graves were to the left as<br />
one enters and about half way dowq the hill near the fence.<br />
John Jr. is to the left. Nancy in the Middle and John Sr. to<br />
the right.<br />
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John Phillip Bradley Jr.'s Head stone.<br />
John Phillip Bradley's Head stone.<br />
I found records at the courthouse where John Phillip Bradley<br />
Sr. was one of the Bradley's who sued a man named Peter<br />
Turney in 1862. The Civil war must have caused a<br />
postponement and in 1885 when the Case was resumed,<br />
John Phillip Sr. and his sister, Linney Bradley had died and<br />
was so stated in the record. Then John Phillip Jr.'s name<br />
appears on the rest of these records and it is evident he did<br />
not run off to Arkansas immediately after the Civil War as<br />
the stories passed down in our family indicate as he was still<br />
in Tennessee as late as 1869. That was 4 years after the war<br />
was over. I now believe he must have gone west with your<br />
Winifred and her sister Sarah Caroline in 1872.<br />
My brother is a doctor in Sparta. Tennessee and he told me<br />
he had a patient who now lives in the house where John<br />
Phillip Bradley Sr. and Nancy lived. He said he made a<br />
house call there several years ago and ·they showed him the<br />
blood stains on the floor where John Phillip Jr. was killed.<br />
The court records show that the Bradley fa1nily lost the court<br />
suit and John Phillip Bradley's farm was sold to settle the<br />
debt and Nancy even lost her dower (a lifetime right to live<br />
on the farm). I assume she must have gone to live with one<br />
of her children in White Count, Tennessee. If I ever get a<br />
copy of these court records I will send you a copy, but the<br />
Xerox machine in the Clerk's ot1icc was not working the day<br />
I was there and they are to send me copies later.<br />
I am also enclosing a paper that shows the children of Sally<br />
Goodbread Bradley. She had one other daughter who died in<br />
1838 and apparently these five were her only children.<br />
James T. Bradley married Mary Morris in 1815. Thomas<br />
Walton Bradley married Elizabeth Williams in 1827. John<br />
Phillip Bradley (your ancestor) Minty Bradley married<br />
Richard Bradley (the son of George Walton Braqley's half<br />
brother, Richard) in 1823 and Linney Bradley who married<br />
the same Richard after her sister, Minty, died int 838. Linney<br />
and Richard had no children. So she had 3 boys and 2 girls. I<br />
am enclosing a copy of Sally Sr. and Sally Jr.'s wills. I have<br />
the original. You have a copy of her deed of gift to her<br />
daughter Linney. Sally Jr. was the daughter of Richard and<br />
Minty, born in 1834 and was the granddaughter of Sally Sr.<br />
1 found the graveyard of Richard Bradley's family where<br />
Sally Goodbread Bradley is buried. The dates on her<br />
tombstone are, born June 7, 1767 and died Dec. 5, 1850. The<br />
other graves here are those of Sally Jr. who died in 1857, her<br />
sister, Linney who was born in 1825 and died in 1856, their<br />
mother Minty, born in 1802 and died in 1838, their father<br />
Richard, born in 1797 and died in 1880, their brother<br />
Thomas D. who was born in 1832 and died in 1866, another<br />
brother, G. W. born 1838 died 1839, an infant of Richard<br />
Bradley and his 3rd wife. Lilla born and died same day in<br />
186 7; Linney Bradley (daughter of Sally Sr.) b. 1 798 and<br />
died 1864 and Crockett Black Boy born 1846 and died 1848.<br />
There arc other graves not engraved and we think they are<br />
slaves. One other gave is marked - William Butram, a<br />
soldier from North Carolina who served in the<br />
Revolutionary War - dates 1759-1848.<br />
I am also enclosing a copy of the original will of John<br />
Bradley who was married to Mary Ledbetter when he died.<br />
They are the parents of George Walton Bradley. I have hilightcd<br />
in yellow the names on this will. You will note he<br />
was married before but we do not know his first wife's name.<br />
Children by the I st wife are: Thomas, Sarah (married Elias<br />
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