Brief Life History of David Crocket
When David Crocket Bradford was born on 13 July 1842, in Eglantine, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States, his father, William King Bradford, was 31 and his mother, Nancy Pennington, was 24. He married Lucille Catherine "Lucy" Hunt on 29 September 1864, in Van Buren, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Sulphur Springs, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Civil District 17, Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 18 April 1917, in Heber Springs, Cleburne, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Heber Springs, Cleburne, Arkansas, United States.
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- Daniel C Bradford, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: David Crocket Bradford - birth: about 1837; Tennessee, United States
- David C Bradford, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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