Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....J. J. Bradley January 20 1847 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    J. J. BRADLEY, prominent farmer and business man of Mt. Andrew, is a native
of Alabama, born in the year 1847, January 20th, in Barbour county. Paternally
he is descended from Irish ancestors, his grandfather, Hobbs Bradley, emigrating
to America from the Emerald Isle at an early date and settling in Delaware,
thence moving to Edgefield district, S. C., where his death occurred many years
ago. Robert Bradley, father of J. J., was born in Edgefield district, S. C.,
about the year 1809, and shortly after his marriage in 1831, to Elizabeth Kemp,
emigrated to Alabama and settled near the village of Clayton. He belonged to a
class of well-to-do planters and was noted for his general intelligence and
thorough acquaintance with political matters, having been an ardent whig and
vigorous opposer of secession. After the state secedd, however, he felt it to be
his duty to stand by the Confederacy, accordingly he and eight of his sons,
three of whom fell in battle, fought during the war, under the stars and bars
and did valorous service for the southern cause. He had previously been a
soldier in the Indian war of 1836, and his military record was replete with duty
bravely and conscientiously performed. He departed this life in 1881; his wife
preceded him to the grave, dying in 1873. Of the ten children born to Robert and
Elizabeth Bradley, the following are now living, namely: Salathial, George, J.
J., Mrs. Martha Kennedy and Robert T. J. J. Bradley was reared a farmer and
appears to have inherited the military instinct of his father. He responded to
the call of his beloved state in 1863, as a private in company A, First Alabama
volunteer infantry, and served as such until the close of the war, participating
in the battles of the Atlanta campaign, Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., and
surrendered at Greensboro, N. C., in 1865. For two years following the war he
lived under the parental roof and at the end of that time took service with Col.
Clark, as superintendent of that gentleman's large plantation, in which capacity
he continued for a period of nine years. With the money realized during that
period he purchased land near Mt. Andrew, and has followed the farmer's vocation
with gratifying success ever since, owning at this time a fine plantation of 350
acres, the greater part of which is under an advanced state of cultivation. In
1875 Mr. Bradley embarked in the goods trade at Mt. Andrew, and is still
conducting that line of business with financial profit, having a very extensive
trade in the town and adjacent country. He has borne no little part in matters
political, and as a democrat was elected to the office of county commissioner,
the duties of which he discharged with credit to himself and satisfaction to all
concerned, for one term. Mr. Bradley is a gentleman of straight forward
unassuming manner, correct in his deportment and honorable in all of his
transactions with his fellow-citizens. As a member of the Methodist church he
has exerted a wholesome influence for religion and morality in the community,
and his connection with the Masonic fraternity has brought him into prominent
notice with the active workers of that order in Barbour and other counties. Mr.
Bradley was happily married on the 27th of April, 1871, to Eliza C., daughter of
Jere Smith, and one child, a daughter, Roxie, a young lady of seventeen, is the
issue of the union.



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