Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bradshaw, Jacob T., 1929 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JACOB THOMAS BRADSHAW JACOB T. BRADSHAW GALLANT SOLDIER OF CONFEDERACY DEAD Jacob T. Bradshaw, 88, oldest resident of Isle of Wight County, and one of the county’s most prominent men, died Wednesday night at 7 o’clock at his home at Walters, after a long period of failing health. Mr. Bradshaw was a member of Company F, Sixty-fourth* Regiment Mahone’s Brigade, of Virginia, and served through the entire Civil War. He was organizer and commander of Beaver Dam Camp, United Confederate Veterans, and until this year had never missed a Confederate reunion. He was the only survivor of the company which left Beaver Dam at the beginning of the war, except John W. Robertson of Norfolk. Mr. Bradshaw also was the oldest member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church, and of Franklin Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias. Besides his wife, Mrs. Nannie Hall Bradshaw, he is survived by a son, Dr. Claude J. Bradshaw of Carrsville; a grandson, J.J. Bradshaw; five great- grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Ed. Howell and Mrs. Elisha Lankford, both of the Franklin community, and Mrs. Rosh Harrell of Norfolk. Funeral services will be conducted this (Friday) afternoon at 3 o’clock in Beaver Dam Baptist Church, with the Rev. W.B. Denson, the pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. ****************************************************************************** JACOB BRADSHAW, OLDEST RESIDENT OF THIS COUNTY PASSES AWAY. Jacob Bradshaw, 88, oldest resident of this county, and one of the county’s most prominent men, died Wednesday night at 7 o’clock at his home at Walters, after a long period of failing health. Mr. Bradshaw was a member of Company L, Sixty-fourth* Regiment Mahone’s Brigade of Virginia, and served through the entire Civil War. He was organizer and commander of Beaver Dam Camp, United Confederate Veterans, and until this year had never missed a Confederate reunion. He was the only survivor of the company which left Beaver Dam at the beginning of the war, except John Robinson, of Norfolk. Mr. Bradshaw also was the oldest member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church, and of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, in Franklin. Besides his wife, Mrs. Nannie Hall Bradshaw, he is survived by a son, Dr. Claude J. Bradshaw of Carrsville; a grandson, J.J. Bradshaw, and five great- grandchildren, Misses Clara, Myrtle, Claudine, Margaret and Mason Bradshaw, and J.J. Bradshaw, Jr., all of Carsville [sic]; three sisters, Mrs. Edward Howell and Mrs. Elisha Langford [sic; Lankford], both of Franklin, and Mrs. Rosh Harrell, of Norfolk. Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock in Beaver Dam Baptist church, with the Rev. W.D. Denson, the pastor, officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Jacob T. BRADSHAW, commander of Beaver Dam Camp, United Confederate Veterans, b. 17 Apr 1848, Isle of Wight Co.**, d. 31 Jul 1929, at home, Walters, interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery***, near Franklin, 2 Aug 1929, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 2, 1929 "The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 10, No. 7, Aug. 8, 1929, p. 1, col. 6 *Pension application gives F/61st Va. Infantry {the Isle of Wight Avengers}. Helen H. King's "Historical Notes" does not list him with that company, but states a Jacob Bradshaw appears on Hardesty's list, with D/16th Va {"Isle of Wight Grays"}, discharged Oct 1864; however, there is no such individual named in the Compiled Service Records for that regiment. See Jacob's 1928 pension application, which he himself approved as Commander of the Beaver Dam Camp, UCV: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/military/civilwar/pensions/b632j1cp.txt ***Beaver Dam list (BD-9), an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt Jacob 1m. "Fannie" Frances C. SAUNDERS, 24 Jan 1867. (IoW.Co. #43) Her gravestone is broken. (Find a Grave Mem. #151439184) He 2m. Pattie Elizabeth GRIFFIN, 23 Jan 1897, in Weldon, Halifax Co., NC. Her obit ("Norfolk Virginian," Feb. 25, 1898, p. 6) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b632p5ob.txt He 3. the twice-widowed Nancy "Nannie" Virginia DUCK WATKINS HALL, 16 Mar 1902. (IoW.Co. #32) She is buried in Mt. Carmel Christian Church Cemetery, Walters. Mt. Carmel list, another extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt Nannie's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 23, 1945, p. 3) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b632n8ob.txt **Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 1929-1086-31310. For more information, see Notes appended to the abstract - his marriage records are included: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/vitals/deaths/b632j1dc.txt See also the death certificate for his son, Dr. Claude J. Bradshaw (1869-1937), of Carrsville: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/vitals/deaths/b632c1dc.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com), Carolyn Keen (VAHistoricHouses@aol.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b632j6ob.txt