Susan Catherine Bradford

Brief Life History of Susan Catherine

When Susan Catherine Bradford was born on 18 January 1866, in Austin, Travis, Texas, United States, her father, Joseph Bradford, was 34 and her mother, Ann Eliza Malone, was 28. She married Elihu Elijah Pierson on 10 December 1881, in Los Angeles, California, United States. She lived in Westminster Township, Orange, California, United States in 1900 and Westminster, Orange, California, United States in 1910. She died on 5 February 1943, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Noah Houston McCuistion
1853–1933
Susan Catherine Bradford
1866–1943
Marriage: about 1882
Grover Cleveland McCuistion
1884–1921
Inez McCuistion
1886–1886
Robert Oliver McCuistion
1889–1976
Pearl McCuistion
1890–1981
Andrew Jay McCuistion
1892–1929
Flossie McCuistion
1894–1972

Sources (27)

  • Ella McQuistian, "United States, Census, 1920"
  • Susan K Carson, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • S C Bradford, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"

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1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco

The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.

1870 · Texas Is Restored to the Union

Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

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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