Notes for Richard BRADLEY
Rutherford Co., NC Deeds & Abs
Richard Bradley(Grantor) William Porter(Grantee) by deed- 1803
Richard Bradley(Grantor) Jones Bradley(Grantee) by deed- 1807
Richard Bradley(Grantor) Richard Ledbetter(Grantee) by deed- 1810
Richard Bradley(Grantor) Coalman Bradley(Grantee) by deed 1816
Birth reported in Census Study pg 420 from "Bradley of Virginia & the South" by Wendell H. Bradley
"Gutbrodt is Goodbread" pg 385, "He lived above Whitehouse in Montford Cove in present McDowel Co., in the first brick house in the area."
'The Rutherford Sun' Thursday Morning, July 30, 1903
'SOME MORE HISTORY'
The Cove: A Noted Place
The Cove's first settlerers-
Richard Bradley, settled on the west side of the present public Cove Road, about one-fourth mile above the McDowell-Rutherford Co. line, and here erected the first brick house built in Rutherford Co. He and his wife, Winnifred Williams, who was the daughter of Jones Williams, died in this house, and sleep in the family graveyard on the big hill west of there. This house was torn down on account of the cellar, by Joshua Hall, and with the brick, he built the house in which he now lives, just across said road from the former site. Reader, if ever you are at this house, examine the brick, and if ever you have to repair any county brick building for the good of the county of Rutherford, and can get such brick as these, men and Brown advise you to do so. Widow Anna Jones was Mr. Bradley's sister, and Walton, John and Isaac were his half brothers. Corn was then high, and on occasion, Mr. and Mrs. B., with sad hearts, had to give one of their slaves for only three bushels but vowed they would all starve together than to do it again and they never had to. To them were born eight sons to-wit: Coleman, John, Terry, Simmons, Thorton, Ledbetter, Richard Jr., and Jones, and three daughters, one of them married Isaac Ledbetter, and one(Nanna first) married a Moore,and afterwards married Henry Elliot; and H. E.'s second wife was Polly Souther, a sister of the late Noah Souther, of Old Fort..."
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