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