302                         HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY


then came to Harmony, where he has since resided free from active work
and cares.
    Captain Bradley married, February 4, 1864, Catherine Mattayaw,
who was born in Richland county, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob and Rosanna
(Hetler) Mattayaw, her father being a native of Alsace and her mother
of Germany. The Captain and Mrs. Bradley have one child, Mary, who
married William R. Crowder, of Rockyford, Colorado, and has three
children, Rowena 0., William Cullen and Josephine. Gertrude Olive
Day, now Mrs. Ora Grimes, of Terre Haute, was a member of the
Bradley family from the age of three years until she married.

    WILLIAM THOMAS JENKINS was born in Owen county, Indiana, June
30, 1832, but the greater part of his life has been spent in Clay county,
Indiana, and he is now living on the farm on which he spent his boyhood
days and the remainder of his life. His father, Ezekiel Jenkins, was born
in Virginia, January 24, 1795, a son of William and Henrietta (Lewis)
Jenkins. In an early period in his life he went to Kentucky and lived
there for several years, coming then to Owen county, Indiana, where he
owned a farm. From Owen county in 1834 he came to Clay county and
bought eighty acres of timber land in section 15, Sugar Ridge township,
which he cleared and improved, but after living there for seven years he
sold the farm and entered one hundred and twenty acres from the gov-
ernment in section 10 of the same township. This land was also covered
with timber, but he in time cut away the trees and placed it under an
excellent state of cultivation, spending the remainder of his life there
and dying on the 22d of September, 1869. He had married in Kentucky
Henrietta Woodsmall, who was born in that state February 28, 1792, a
daughter of John and (Preston) Woodsmall, also of that state.
Mrs.’ Jenkins died on the 22d of September, 1868, just one year to the day
before her husband. William Thomas was the ninth born of their ten
children, two sons and eight daughters, and the only one now living. His
brother died in St. Louis, Missouri, as a soldier during the Civil war.
    The boyhood days of William T. Jenkins were spent on the home
farm in Sugar Ridge township, and he did the most of the clearing of this
place, as his father was then in advanced years and previously had spent
much of his time as a raftsman on the Wabash and White rivers. The
son remained at home with his parents until their deaths, and afterward
continued to farm the place, and he has never lived elsewhere since the
founding of the family here many years ago. He in time bought thirty-
two and a half acres in section 13, Sugar Ridge township, also thirty-two
acres in section 9, which he owns in addition to eighty acres of the old
homestead.
    He married on the 17th of April, 1864, Naomi S. O’Brien, who was
born in Hancock county, Indiana, a daughter of George W. and Sarah
(Brittan) O’Brien, natives of Ohio. Mrs. Jenkins was born on the 10th
of September, 1842, and died on the 4th of February, 1883, leaving the
following children: James P., whose home is in Washington township;
Laura, the wife of Elsworth Brown, of Sugar Ridge township; Sarah
Jane, who became the wife of Duffield Hicks and is now deceased;
Samantha Gertrude, the wife of Charles F. Sprague, of Wisconsin; Emery
S., who is with his father; and Cordelia Belle, the wife of James Burns,
the county auditor of Clay county, and their home is in Brazil. Mr.