Henry County AlArchives Biographies.....Bradley, William E. 1838 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILLIAM E. BRADLEY, one of the most prominent merchants of Abbeville, Henry
county, Ala., is the gentleman who heads this sketch. He was born in the county
of Henry in 1838, the only child of Henry and Eliza (Danzey) Bradley. Henry
Bradley was a native of Connecticut, born at Southington, in 1811. He and C. C.
Langdon, late secretary of state, were boys together and were reared on
adjoining farms. Henry Bradley, in 1830, came to Alabama in company with four
brothers; he settled in Henry county, while the four brothers went to Columbus,
Ga., where one enlisted for the Mexican war, but died at Mobile, Ala.; one
returned to Connecticut and there died, and the other two died at Columbus.
Henry Bradley married in 1837, and died in 1840. His widow, in 1850, was married
to W. Coxwell, to whom she bore one child, and died in 1858. William E. Bradley
was reared on his maternal grandfather's farm and was educated at the
subscription schools of Henry county. At the outbreak of the Civil war, he went
out as lieutenant of company A, Thirty-seventh Alabama infantry, under command
of Col. James F. Dow-dell, and served until July 22, 1864, when he lost a leg at
Atlanta, and was sent home When peace was established he was elected clerk of
the circuit court of Henry county and held the office two terms, during which
time he engaged in merchandising, which business he still continues to conduct.
In 1860, he married Miss Lucy Sholar, daughter of Bryant and Mary (Kirkland)
Sholar, natives of South Carolina, and early settlers of Alabama, her uncle,
indeed, being a resident here when Alabama was a territory. Her parents were
married after their arrival here. Her father died, in 1863, of smallpox; her
mother, who was born in 1808, still survives. Mrs. Bradley was born in Henry
county in 1842, was married at the age of eighteen, and has borne her husband
two children--William Canty, who died in infancy, and Sterling Price, who is now
married and the father of two children-Ruth and Mary. Politically, Mr. Bradley
is a stanch democrat, and at the age of nineteen was appointed postmaster of
Abbeville by Joseph Holt, postmaster-general under the administration of James
Buchanan; later he was appointed to the same office by J. H. Ragan,
postmaster-general of the Confederacy. Mr. Bradley is a member of lodge No. 91,
F. & A. M., of Abbeville, also a member of I. O. O. F.; with his wife, he is
also a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is well preserved for
his age, is of good address and is attentive to his business; he takes deep
interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of the county, and is well
worthy of notice in connection with the upbuilding of Abbeville.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1076-1077
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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