Oliver H Bradley

Brief Life History of Oliver H

When Oliver H Bradley was born in 1821, in Canada, his father, Lemuel Harnden Bradley, was 39 and his mother, Catherine Waite, was 37. He married Sarah Cardinal in 1841, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Genoa, DeKalb, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Wilson, Wilson, Niagara, New York, United States for about 5 years. He died on 10 October 1889, in Township of Algoma, Kent, Michigan, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Cedar Springs, Kent, Michigan, United States.

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Family Time Line

Oliver H Bradley
1821–1889
Sarah Cardinal
1822–1909
Marriage: 1841
Julia Bradley
1842–
Lafayette Bradley
1844–1920
Maryette Bradley
1847–1928
Minerva Bradley
1849–1932
Ariminta J Bradley
1852–1938
Annette Bradley
1853–
Cecelia Margaret Bradley
1854–1929
Ida Rosetta Bradley
1856–1934
Raymond J Bradley
1860–1946
Nelle Elizabeth Bradley
1863–1949
Sadie A Bradley
1866–1951

Sources (36)

  • Oliver Bradly, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Oliver H Bradley, "Michigan, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), Cemetery Index, 1799-1999"
  • Oliver H Bradley, "Michigan, Civil War Centennial Observance Commission, Committee on Civil War Grave Registration, Burial Records"

World Events (8)

1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land

A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.

1832

Oldest grave seen in the memorials list

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of the many places throughout England named Bradley, from Old English brād ‘broad’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Scottish: habitational name from Braidlie in Roxburghshire.

Irish (Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Brolcháin ‘descendant of Brolacháin’, a diminutive of the personal name Brólach, compare Brawley . This was a learned family.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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