Yancey County, NC - Samuel L. Bradford Cemetery

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Samuel L. Bradford Cemetery
Little Creek, Yancey Co., NC
updated on 10/02/05 

Location:  Take 19W towards Burnsville, NC.  Make a right onto Little Creek Road 
which crosses over the Cane River.  Continue briefly on Little Creek Rd. for about 
.75 miles and then make a left onto Bradford Road.  There is an old barn on the 
right corner as you head up Bradford Rd.  Proceed up the hill for about .25 mile 
and on the left you will see an overgrown logging trail with a gated entrance in 
between a couple of homes that are close to the road.  This is a private road, not 
fortified and overgrown in many sections.  The former logging trail meanders up a 
hill and ends at another gate which keeps livestock.  This is also private property 
affording beautiful views of Bald Mountain and the Bee Log Valley.  Both cemeteries 
are enclosed with fences and are accessible by foot via a trail that begins on the 
left side of the knoll.  You will first pass by the Edwards cemetery and as you 
climb up the hill you will see the Sam Bradford Cemetery with overgrown boxwood shrubs.

SAMUEL L. BRADFORD CEMETERY:   surnames:  Bradford, Hensley, Lewis

1.  BRADFORD  (double headstone)
 "Resting in Peace"
Samuel L. Bradford, b. April 6, 1868 – d. February 20, 1932
[s/o William "Billy" E. Bradford and Elizabeth Hensley]
The Will of Samuel L. Bradford   NOTE:  Samuel L. was a merchant who ran a local store

Ruhamia (Hensley), b. March 5, 1872 – d. March 17, 1940
[d/o Barnett L. and Lucinda Hensley buried Old Hensley #3 Row 9 #2-3; 
children are:  Oscar, Princia Lee Phillips Hampton Cemetery, #14, Sue Emma #2, 
Rexter McCourry Hensley-Tipton Cemetery, #3, Arthur, Lyde, Andy New Bradford Cemetery, 
Lucinda, Woodrow New Bradford Cemetery.  
 
2.  LEWIS  (double headstone)
Goldman Lewis, b. 1891 – d. 1974
[s/o Robert Hiram Lewis and Bane Hensley; brother Mallie buried Old Hensley #3/Row 11 #2,
Sue Emma (Bradford), b. 1897 – d. 1948  (wife; d/o Samuel and Ruhamia #1)

3.  BRADFORD, Jack  b. 1929 – d. 1936
("Little Jack" died in a house fire age 5; s/o Lyde Bradford
and Gladys Brinkley; grandson of Samuel L Bradford and 
Ruhamia Hensley #1) 

4.   UNMARKED GRAVE
(highly suspected grave of Ishom B. Bradford)
b. abt. 1870 - d. 
the brother of Samuel L. Bradford)

5.  BRADFORD, Jack
[b. ? – d. abt. 1990  
NOTE:  Grave marked with a rock and a faded metal funeral home marker.
s/o Oscar Bradford and Ida Mae Randolph)

6.  UNMARKED GRAVE  (highly suspected grave of Hannah Cooper)
COOPER, Hannah
b. 1834 - d.  May 16, 1872
d/o William "Billy" Bradford and Mary "Polly" Cooper  who never married;
Hannah Cooper is w/o William Issam Hensley [s/o William Bryson Hensley and Elizabeth Cooper]
NOTE:  Samuel L. Bradford offers testimony in an affidavit which explains Hannah Cooper's burial

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