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Source:
Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas
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Adams County, Ohio

Publ. 1880

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DAVID M. BRADFORD - The Bradford family is of Irish origin, but we can learn little of the history of their ancestry.  As far back as we can gather anything authentic, is that two brothers, David and William, who came from Pennsylvania or Virginia and settled in Adams county.  David came at a very early date and settled at the mouth of Brush Creek, on the Ohio river.  He became a very prominent man is the county, serving as County Treasurer from 1801 to 1831, a period of thirty years.  When the county seat was removed, he was among the first to locate in the new town of West Union, coming here in 1804, as soon as the town was laid out.  He built the first hotel in the place and opened a tavern in 1806.  William Bradford, the other brother, was the grandfather of David M. Bradford, the subject of this sketch.  It appears that the father of William died when the son was but a child, and the little fellow was placed in a family of strangers, somewhere in Virginia, with whom he lived until he grew to the years of manhood.  In 1819 he left Virginia, came to Adams county and settled in West Union where he stayed a year, then moved to Sprigg township and settled in Fox's survey, No. 401, on the Ohio River, where he lived and died.  He married Margaret Parkinson.  They were the parents of twelve children, three boys and nine girls.  They all grew to years of maturity and married.  They were Eveline Kimble, Benjamin married Nancy Ann Burbage, David married Mary Ann Terhune, Samuel married Eliza Case, Sophia married Alexander Hutchinson, Eliza married Samuel Beam, Sallie married Thomas Batton, Jane married David Beam, Rebecca married Washington Carpenter, Polly married John McCauley, Margaret married Jacob Holmes.  David Bradford, the father of David M. Bradford, was born 1st 1806, and married Mary Ann Terhune, April 28th, 1830.  They raised a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters as follows:  William born May 17th, 1831, died July 21st 1832.  Samuel, born Oct. 22d, 1832, died Sept. 30th, 1862.  Amanda born Dec.23d, 1835, married John Brookover, Feb. 19th, 1832.  James, born Jan. 30th, 1838, died Jan. 29th, 1880, Benjamin, born Oct. 18th, 1840, married Margaret Brookover, Dec. 4th, 1870.  David M., born Aug. 17th, 1842, married Celesta Robinson, Nov. 5th, 1808.  Martha, born Jan. 19th, 1844, married James W. Campbell, Mar. 17th, 1864.  Eveline, born Jan. 21st, 1840, married Robert Stewart, Mar. 12th, 1868.  Ann Eliza, born June 7th, 1851, married James S. Lewis, Jul. 29th, 1880.  Three of these sons, Samuel, Benjamin and David all served in the army.  Samuel and Benjamin both enlisted in the 70th O. V. I., Co. G.  They were both at the battle of Shiloh.  Samuel was, after that battle taken with the mumps and returned to Aberdeen, where he convalesced, started to return to his regiment and got as far as Cincinnati, where he had a relapse, was brought back home and died a few days afterwards.  Benjamin continued in service longer.  He served through the siege of Vicksburg and started with Sherman on his march to the sea, but some where in Georgia, was take sick and sent to the Invalid Hospital at Evansville, Indiana.  He was, however, afterwards drafted in and served in the 142d Indiana regiment until the close of the war.  David M. Bradford enlisted Aug. 54th, 1864, in the 182d Regt. O. V. I., commanded by Col. Butler.  This regiment was assigned to duty in the engineer corps in which it did service most of the time.  It was in the battle of Nashville, where Hood's army was so disastrously defeated.  He served until the close of the war, was discharged at Nashville, July 7th, 1865, and mustered out at Camp Chase.  As stated bef___ Mr. Bradford married Miss Celesta Robinson, daughter of Wade Robinson.  They are the parents of seven children, five boys and two girls.  Their names are John Nelson, Elmer Ellsworth, Dora Deen, David Decatur, Samuel Preston, Elsie Ellwood, and Martin Lewis.  Mr. Bradford owns and occupies the old homestead.  It is a splendid farm of 350 acres, embracing a portion of the best river bottom, and extending back to the hills.  It is provided with good and substantial buildings of every kind, all tastefully arranged.  A beautiful spot, 40x40 feet, has been selected on the farm for a family cemetery.  It has been enclosed with a substantial stone wall of masonry.  There is a marble monument fourteen feet high, in the center of the lot, on which are to be inscribed the names and ages of the deceased members of the family as they are deposited there.  Five members of the family already repose in this cemetery.  There are situated on the road near the eastern side of this farm, a school house and church.  The church, which belongs to the Protestant Methodist denomination, is a neat frame building 40x30.  The congregation was organized in 1870 and the house built in 1874.  The society is in a prosperous condition and now numbers sixty members.  Mr. Bradford devotes considerable attention to the raising of bees.  He has the most approved style of hives.  A few years age he made what he called his "Centennial hive."  He somewhere in the woods found a hollow poplar tree which he cut down and sawed out a section seven feet long, with an inside diameter of two feet.  This he roofed and set on flat stone.  He then killed the bees (which was wrong) and took their stores, which required two years hard labor to collect.  This yielded two hundred pounds of marketable honey, which he sold for 25 cents a pound.  Mr. Bradford is stock holder and director in the First National Bank of Manchester.  He is a man of business habits and a good financier.
Source: From Caldwell's Adams County, Ohio Atlas 1880 - Page 51

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