This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: david john bradford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3YF.2ACIB/1943.1 Message Board Post: hello, jeanette,I will give you what info i have on david john bradford and mattie j. brandon.first of all i too are not sure where david john was borned.texas or tenn. he married mattie janie in carroll co. tenn. in 1893. both david johns parents were borned in tenn. their daughter, mattie mollie was my husbands mother.my husband uncle rome eugene gave us somefamily history, most of what you already have.david johns father was john bradford, a major in the confederate army,killed in the battle of new orleans(?)