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Subject: [BRADFORD-L] Re: Wiley or Davis Bradford
Date: 21 Jan 2002 23:41:25 -0700
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I DO NOT HAVE PROOF AND I HAVE NOT FOUND ANYONE WITH CONCRETE PROOF THEY WERE BLOOD BROTHERS. I DO HAVE A LOT OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE THAT LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THEY WERE AT LEAST BROTHERS, IF NOT BLOOD BROTHERS. (1) WILEY BRADFORD WAS MY GRANDFATHERS, (ROBERT LEE TIDWELL), GREAT GRANDFATHER. IN ABOUT 1978, HE TOLD ME WILEY WAS HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER AND HE HAD A BROTHER NAMED DAVIS. I KNOW THIS IS SLIM, BUT IT DOES NOT AT LEAST REFUTE THE FACT. (2) 1830 MAURY CO., TENN CENSUS SHOWS DAVIS BRADFORD AND ANOTHER MALE OF ABOUT THE SAME AGE IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD, BOTH 20-30 YEARS OLD. I BELIEVE WILEY, THE YOUNGER OF THE TWO WAS LIVING WITH HIS BIG BROTHER AT THIS TIME. THERE WAS A FEMALE IN THIS HOUSEHOLD BETWEEN THE AGES OF 50-60. I BELIEVE THIS WAS THEIR MOTHER, ONLY SPECULATIVE ON BOTH PARTS. I BELIEVE SHE IS LATER FOUND IN WILEY'S HOUSEHOLD IN THE 1840 GILES CO., TENN CENSUS, AGAIN AS BETWEEN 50-60 YEARS OF AGE. IT LISTS HIM AND THE OLDER FEMALE ONLY. WILEY DID NOT GET MARRI!
ED UNTIL 1841. (3) WILEY AND DAVIS ARE LISTED IN ORDER IN THE 1840 GILES CO., TENN CENSUS, SUGGESTING THEY WERE NEIGHBORS. (4) THEY WERE BOTH IN WILLIAMSON CO., TENN BY 1841. DAVIS BRADFORD WAS THE BONDSMAN IN THE MARRIAGE OF WILEY BRADFORD WHEN HE MARRIED ROENA INGRAM ON AUG. 18, 1843. (5) DAVIS NAMED HIS FIRST BORN SON WILEY BRADFORD. (6) SOME HAVE QUESTIONS WHETHER THEY WERE BROTHERS, BUT I HAVE TO THIS DATE NOT HAD ONE PERSON GIVE PROOF THEY WERE NOT. AGAIN, I AM NOT STATING THEY WERE WITHOUT DOUBT BROTHERS. I FEEL CONFIDENT FOR MYSELF THEY WERE, BUT AGAIN I COULD BE WRONG.
ARE YOU A BRADFORD DESCENDANT? IF SO, LETS EXCHANGE INFORMATION.
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