Brief Life History of William H.
When William H. Bradford was born on 17 August 1849, in Sparta, White, Tennessee, United States, his father, Bennit Bradford, was 26 and his mother, Louisa Dickerson, was 25. He married Sarah Emma Sowell on 21 January 1869, in Van Buren, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. He lived in Red River Township, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Union Township, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States in 1880. He died on 18 February 1888, in Van Buren, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Bradford Cemetery, Shirley, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States.
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- William Bradford, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Bradford - birth: 17 August 1849; White, Tennessee, United States
- Wm H Bradford, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places, large and small, called Bradford; in particular the city in Yorkshire, which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset, Cheshire, Wiltshire and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brād ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.
History: This name was brought independently to North American by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Bradford (1590–1657), born in Austerfield in South Yorkshire, England, the son of a yeoman farmer, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who emigrated to North America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and in 1621 he was elected governor of Plymouth colony, being re-elected thirty times. Another William Bradford (1663–1752), printer, came from Barnwell, Leicestershire, England, to Philadelphia, PA, in 1685, subsequently moving to New York, where he set up a printing press and founded a paper mill. His grandson, also called William Bradford (1721–91), was known as ‘the patriot printer’, famous for his Philadelphia newspaper, which among other things denounced the Stamp Act, "which no American can mention without abhorrence".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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