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Subject: [BRADFORD-L] Coryell County, Texas Bradfords
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 11:46:58 -0500
Here is information gathered from Coryell County Families compiled by
the Coryell Co., Texas Gen. Society, 1986.
>From Coryell County Families, page 139
BRADFORD-McDANIEL
Joseph Wesley Bradford was born in Valdesta [sic], Georgia August 10,
1855. He came to Texas as a young man. He married Mary Cordelia
McDaniel in 1882 at Ruth, Texas. Rev. David Quillan performed the
ceremony. Their twelve children were: William Wesley (1883-1943),
Virginia May (Powell) (1887-1960), H.B. (Bonnie), Samuel Bernard
(1886-1939), Mary Ethel (McBride), James Arthur, Leonard Ruby, Murphy,
Estelle Belle, Vivian Etta (Tippit), Josephine (Dyer), and Wilton R.
John C. Bradford, son of Bernard, is the only descendant of J.W. living
in Coryell County at the present time, 1984. John C. is a retired
automobile dealer.
Joseph W. Bradford was in the mercantile business at Pidcoke before the
turn of the century. Supplies for the store were hauled by wagon from
Killeen. Before this, he was employed as assistant postmaster of
Gatesville and later as County Surveyor. Around 1916-1920, he operated
stores at Mound and King, in Coryell County. Ruth Raby Franks Bradford
Page 207
DIXON FAMILY
Absolem Daniel Dixon (28 October 1843-27 May 1913), a veteran of the
Civil War, married his wartime buddy's widow, Mary Christian Peoples
Bradford (5 June 1835-26 February 1917), and moved to Texas around
1869-1870, settling on Owl Creek in the Hubbard Community. The Dixons
came with the 4 Bradford children and the 2 Dixon children. Cotton,
corn, wheat and oats were the major crops with cotton being the money
crop. They bought over 100 acres of the Schrimsher place and an
additional 100+ acres. Mr. Dixon and his 3 stepsons cleared 40 acres of
land and made 40 bales of cotton in 1 year which paid for the land.
Life in the late 1800s through 1941 was filled with rural life
activities from camp meetings to community plays and dances on Friday
and Saturday night when the local talent starred. Bird and possum
hunting were always favorites with all the men folk when it did not
interfere with school. Two teachers taught some 30 students in grades
1-9.
Friends and neighbors of the A.D. Dixons who were displaced in 1942 by
Camp Hood Reservation were the families of Joe Barr; Miller Bates; John
and Harv Bird; Tom Botkin; David, Jeff and Joseph Bradford; Hugh Evetts;
Galloways; Jim Grey; B. Jones; Emmett, Jeff and Sam Powell; Tom Ross;
Sheltons; Bill Stovall; Tom Tippitt; S.M. Turner; and Tom Young.
The Dixon children were Narcissus Elizabeth, Virginia Agnes, and Roland
Andrew. Narcissus Elizabeth (17 May 1869-23 Jan. 1940), married 1 Dec
1886, Jefferson Davis Powell. Virginia Agnes (2 Mar. 1875-5 Nov. 1948)
married, 30 Nov. 1893, Felix R. Jones. Roland Andrew (25 Dec 1877-22
Feb. 1949) married, 23 Feb. 1897, Frances Olivia Turner. R.A. Dixon,
Jr.
p. 241, col 3.
>From FRANKLIN-BATES article
Since Friendship school was several miles from home, getting me there
was somewhat a problem. The arrangement worked out was that on Monday
morning one of my parents would take me to the pubic road to meet the
teacher and his sister, and I would ride with them in their buggy to
school, but instead of returning that afternoon I would go to Grandpa
Shults and stay during the week. He lived a good distance west of the
school but I could walk to and from with his children, my Aunt Roxie,
Uncle Pete and Uncle Thomas. Then on Friday, I would ride back home
with my teacher. He was Mr. Bonnie Bradford. His father, Mr. Joseph
Bradford, had also taught school at Friendship and was my mothers
first grade teacher.
Mary Ettie Bates Franklin
P 474, col 3.
POWELL-BRADFORD
James Emett Powell was born December 27, 1861 on Owl Creek in Coryell
County on land his father had obtained from the Government and made a
home. That land is now a part of Fort Hood.
Emmets father, James Wilkins Powell, came from Mississippi while he
was still a young man. Before coming to Texas he ran a ferry boat on
the Mississippi River. Emmets mother was Malinda Jane Medlin, whose
father was Sheriff of Upshur County. Emmet was the second of eight
childrensix boys and two girlsas follows: George Anderson, James
Emmet, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Ingram, Fannie Anna Hibernia, John
Bunyan, Robert E. Lee, and Lottie, who died when she was three years old
and most of the other members of the famiy lived out their lives in
Coryell County.
Emmet married Lucinda Rachel Bradford, who had come from Georgia to
Coryell County with her mother, step-father, three brothers, one
half-brother, and one half-sister when she was twelve years old. Her
father, William Jefferson Davis Bradford, had been killed during the
Civil War. Lucinda was born February 24, 1858, near Valdosta, Georgia.
Soon after Emmet and Lucinda were married, Emmet built a house with 3
rooms and a porch on land given him by his father. All six of their
children were born in that house. Lucinda died on July 20, 1924, she
was 66 years old.
Emmets death on November 26, 1951, just one month and one day before
he would have been 90 years old.
Their children were Lucinda Augusta (Gussie), Millard Emmet (Millard),
Mary Malinda (Madie), James Conrad (Conrad), Annie Bunyan (Annie) and
Clayton Bradford (Clayton). None of the family except one
daughter-in-law live in Coryell County now. Another daughter-in-law
lives in Lamesa, and a daughter, Annie, who is the last of the immediate
family living, lives in Snyder. She says Coryell County is still home
to her. Annie Holt, daughter
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