Carroll Co., AR - Biographies - Alfred Mc. Bradley

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Alfred Mc. Bradley is a Tennesseean, who was born in Jefferson County 
May 13, 1834. His father, Jesse Bradley, was a native of North 
Carolina, and a son of James Bradley, also a native of the Old North 
State. Jesse Bradley was reared in his native State and in East 
Tennessee. In Jefferson County, Tenn., he married Susan Coffman, a 
native of the State. He removed his family to Alabama in 1837, 
locating in Cherokee County, and resided there until his death, about 
1872. Alfred Mc. Bradley was reared on his father's farm in Cherokee 
County, Ala. In 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate army, joining Col. 
Shaler's regiment of infantry. After serving one year with that 
regiment he joined Col. Wood's battalion, and served until they were 
disbanded at Jackson Post, Ark., at the close of the war. He 
participated in the battle of Poison Springs. Mr. Bradley came to 
Arkansas in 1854, and located in Searcy County. The following year he 
married Nancy E. Lawrence, a native of Chattooga County, Ga., where 
she was also reared. After their marriage they resided in Searcy 
County until after the war, when they removed to Barry County, Mo., 
and engaged in agricultural pursuits. In the spring of 1867 they came 
to Carroll County, and the following year located on their present 
farm. He purchased 120 acres of raw land, and has since cleared 
seventy-five acres and made fair improvements. On his farm is an 
orchard of over 400 bearing trees of a fine variety of apples. About 
1870 Mr. Bradley was elected county treasurer, and served two years. 
In 1886 he was elected justice of the peace of his township, and still 
serves in that capacity. He and wife have seven children living, 
namely; Melinda (Mrs. Andrew Walker), Matilda, Martha (Mrs. W. J. 
Ashe), Melissa (Mrs. A. J. Goforth), Susan, Clementine and Barton 
Ellis, and five dead, one who died in early childhood, three infants, 
and Walter, who died September 2, 1887, aged seventeen years. Mr. 
Bradley is industrious, enterprising and well respected.