OBITUARY:  Mrs. Mary Ann Bradford, 28 Feb 1916 - Smith County, TX

Contributed by Dr. Alma Moore Freeland
Submitted by East Texas Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711

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Source Unknown - Date taken from Freeland Research

Dies at 88

On Tuesday morning, the last day of February, Mrs. Mary Ann Bradford,
(nee Melton) died of infirmities of age.  She was born August, 1828,
in Newton county, Ga.  Moved to this county in 1846 with her parents 
and was married to R. L. Bradford in 1847.  They settled on the
place just north of the Judge C. G. White place two miles East of
Omen and lived there continuously until the day of her death of 
sixty-nine years.  After the death of her husband fifty years ago,
she lived with her oldest son, W. G. Bradford, who provided and 
cared for her.  He now lives on the place he was born on, and is
sixty-eight years old.  She has one other living child, Mrs. Agnes
Keel, of Dallas, Texas.  These are the only two of the ten children
that survive her.  She had 47 grandchildfren, ?5 or 70 great
grandchildren and four great, great grandchildren.  She joined the
Ebenezer Baptist church in 1871 and lived faithful to her church 
til death. - Signal