Tallapoosa-Chambers County AlArchives Biographies.....BRADLEY, CORNELIUS C. January 19, 1817 - July 18, 1896 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Becky Bradley rrbradley@mon-cre.net September 4, 2006, 2:41 pm Author: BECKY BRADLEY CORNELIUS C. BRADLEY WAS BORN OF IRISH DECENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA (POSSIBLY NEWBERRY COUNTY). THERE IS NO DEFINITE PROOF OF WHO HIS PARENTS WERE BUT THERE WERE SEVERAL BRADLEY'S IN CLOSE PROXIMITY IN CHAMBERS COUNTY THAT WERE MAYBE SIBLINGS. THE STORY TOLD TO THE SUBMITTED BY AN OLDER COUSIN IS THAT HIS FATHER WAS PATRICK BRADLEY WHO CAME FROM IRELAND. HE SAID THAT PATRICK'S WIFE DIED ON BOARD THE SHIP AND THAT THEY HAD TO THROW HER OVERBOARD. OBVIOUSLY, HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO REMARRY AS CORNELIUS C. BRADLEY WAS BORN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS SAME STORY WAS TOLD BY ANOTHER DESCENDANT OF MARY ANN REBECCA BRADLEY WALLS. CORNLEIUS MARRIED RUTH C. LINDSEY 12-8-1839 IN CHAMBERS COUNTY, ALABAMA WHERE THEY WERE MEMBERS OF THE MACEDONIA PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH FOR A SHORT TIME. RUTH WAS BORN 6-4-1807. CORNELIUS PURCHASED LAND 12-24-1854 AND MOVED HIS FAMILY TO TALLAPOOSA COUNTY NEAR GOLDVILLE. AFTER MOVING TO TALLAPOOSA COUNTY THE CIVIL WAR BEGAN AND AT AGE 51 HE ENLISTED UNDER THE COMMAND OF W.A.STRICKLING. SEVERAL OF HIS SONS ALSO ENLISTED. HE AND RUTH HAD 7 KNOWN CHILDREN ACCORDING TO BIBLE RECORDS AND BACKED UP BY CENSUS RECORDS. 1. JOHN ANSON BRADLEY BORN 9-29-1840 AND DIED 7-18-1896. HE IS BURIED AT BETHEL PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH IN EQUALITY, AL. HE FIRST MARRIED SARAH ANN FRANCES WALLACE (DAU OF JESSE JEFFERSON WALLACE AND LYDIA CROSS). AFTER SARAH'S DEATH ON 2-15-1880, JOHN ANSON MARRIED MARY JANE GALLOWAY 7-29-1880. THEY HAD NO CHILDREN. THIS IS THE LINE THAT THE SUBMITTER DESCENDS FROM. 2. JOSEPH R. CORNELIUS BRADLEY BORN 12-5-1842. HE MARRIED SARAH'S SISTER NANCY AVERLINE WALLACE AND THEY BOTH DIED APX 1875. THEIR 3 CHILDREN WERE RAISED BY VARIOUS FAMILY MEMEBERS. 3. JESSE BRADLEY BORN 11-26-1844 AND DIED 9-7-1862, A CASUALTY OF THE CIVIL WAR. 4. MARCUS DELAFAYETE BRADLEY BORN 7-27-1846 DIED 4- 1-1893. HE MARRIED MARY ANN FRANCINA FINCH THOMPSON AND THEY LIVED IN ONEONTA (BLOUNT CO) ALABAMA. 5. MARY ANN REBECCA BRADLEY BORN 5-25-1848 DIED APX 1927. SHE MARRIED JEREMIAH W. WALLS IN CLAY CO, AL, BECKY AND JERRY, AS THEY WERE KNOWN MOVED TO PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. 6. RUTHA JANE BRADLEY (TWIN) BORN 9-7- 1849 AND DIED 10-16-1907. SHE MARRIED JAMES JASPER WALLACE (COUSIN TO SARAH AND NANCY) AND THEY MOVED TO VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS. 7. ORPHA E. BRADLEY (TWIN) WAS BORN DEAD 9-7-1849. RUTH LINDSEY BRADLEY DIED 10-25-1855 AND CORNELIUS THEN MARRIED SARAH A. PARTRIDGE 1-13-1861. SARAH WAS BORN 11-13-1835 AND DIED 6-28-1873. THEIR SON JAMES CORNELIUS BRADLEY BORN 12-20-1861 AND DIED 3-9-1923 IN VAN BUREN, ARK. JAMES MARRIED CORA LEE MEEKS 3-10-1887 IN ELSWORTH, ARK. LATER IN LIFE, CORNELIUS C. BRADLEY MIGRATED TO ARKANSAS. POSS FIRST TO LOGAN COUNTY, AS THERE IS A C. BRADLEY LIVING ALONE, THEN ON TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ARKANSAS, AS THERE IS AN ARTICLE IN THE CADDO RIVER BAPTIST ASSOCIATION MINUTES HELD WITH BLACK SPRINGS CHURCH IN THAT COUNTY. IT STATES "DIED C.C. BRADLEY AGED 79 YEARS. HE WAS A GOOD OLD MAN; VISITED THE SICK AND WAS KIND. IT'S NOT KNOWN WHERE CORNELIUS C. BRADLEY AND HIS 2 WIVES ARE BURIED. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/tallapoosa/bios/bradley740gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb