Homer Bradford

Brief Life History of Homer

When Homer Bradford was born on 20 February 1893, in Van Buren, Van Buren Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, his father, James Tilden Bradford, was 28 and his mother, Nora Alice Love, was 24. He died on 7 February 1894, at the age of 0, and was buried in Union Chapel Cemetery, Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Tilden Bradford
1864–1904
Nora Alice Love
1868–1959
Ollie May Bradford
1886–1930
Elizabeth Belle Bradford
1890–1986
Homer Bradford
1893–1894
Zola Fern Bradford
1895–1935
Helen Delores Bradford
1903–1992

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  • Indiana, Grant County birth records
  • Homer Bradford, "Find A Grave Index"

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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