Freestone County, Texas
Biographies


Based on research by Mrs. Alma B. L. Fricke.

TENNESSEE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1796-1969
(Preliminary No. 12)
HENDERSON COUNTY

Bradbury, Hezekiah (1800-1857)

SENATE, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, and 29th General Assemblies, 1841-49, 1851-53; 
representing counties of Henderson, Hardin, McNairy, and Perry in 24th, 
Henderson, McNairy, and Perry in 25th through 27th, Henderson, Decatur, 
McNairy, and Perry in 29th; Whig. Born in Knox County, May 7, 1800; names of 
parents and extent of schooling not determined. Married Sept. 13, 1832, to 
Mary Dibbrell Shrewsbury, daughter of Drury and Elizabeth (Dibbrell) 
Shrewsbury; children--Elizabeth Ann, Hezekiah G., Margarette Lee, Mary Jane, 
Charles Henry, Martha Lee, and Rebecca Bell. Removed to Henderson County at 
undetermined date prior to 1841; where he engaged in merchandising until 1856
except for year 1850, when he resided with son in 7th civil district of 
Decatur County; removed to Texas, 1856, where he engaged in cotton and 
shipping business until death about a year later. In "A Tribute" to his 
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Hefley, a clipping from an unnamed and undated 
newspaper, it was said that Bradbury "commanded a regiment from Tennessee 
during the war between the United States and Mexico; which he led to San 
Antonio, reaching there just as the war closed. For this patriotic effort he
received valuable lands in Texas." However, available Mexican War records in 
Tennessee Archives -contain no mention of Bradbury's participation in that 
war. He died at Fairfield, Freestone County, Tex., Nov. 10, 1857; buried in
Fairfield Cemetery.