This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bradford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3YF.2ACIB/1714 Message Board Post: TENNESSEE COUSINS, A History of Tennessee People by Worth S. Ray Abstracts from the records of CARTER COUNTY, TENN page 53: JONATHAN TIPTON married LAVINIA WILLIAMS the daughter of Edmund Williams and his wife LUCRETIA. He settled in Monroe County, Tennessee, where he left a will dated September 25, 1843, in which he named his children and his wife MARGARET - he having married a secon time, aftr the death of LAVINIA WILLIAMS, his first wife. JONATHAN TIPTON and his first wife LAVINIA WILLIAMS had the following children: Mary Ann m. Wear; John B.; Edmund W. (surveyor); Willie B.; LUCRETIA TIPTON m. BRADFORD; Triphenia ; Sarah m. Wilkerson; Lorenza Dow; Pleasant M.; Eidridge G.; Jonathan C.; Quincy Adams; Lavinia JEFFERSON COUNTY, TN page 116 JOHN WILLIAMS, who was born in Virginia, and who used to say that he was of WELSH descent, settled in an early day in what is now HAWKINS, or possibly the presnt Claiborne County. He had a son GEORGE WILLIAMS, whose wife was SALLIE MOORE in 1817. She was a native of SURRY COUNTY, NC. They were the parents of S.D. WILLIAMS, born at MOORESBURG, Hawkins Co. in 1823, and who married MISS MARY REESE and after her death MARY E. BRADFORD. He followed farming in JEFFERSON COUNTY. Page 230: LIST OF OLD TIME SHERIFFS IN EAST TENNESSEE: These items from the old files of Wilson's Gazette, published in Knoxville on January 6, 1808, is of interest, as giving a list of some of the old time Sheriffs of several East Tennessee counties: JAMES BRADFORD was Sheriff of JEFFERSON COUNTY. He advertises a foreclosure on the lands of WILLIAM SNODDY. Page 491/2 POLK COUNTY, TENNESSEE The first court of Polk County was held on the North side of the Hiwassee at COLUMBUS, May 4, 1840. Following are the names of the first justices there present:........ and the following persons composed the first grand jury of Polk County, Tennessee: H. BRADFORD The next entry on this page is: THE GARNER FAMILY FROM LUMPKIN COUNTY, GEORGIA. Dr. John C. C. Garner, an old time practicing physician of Polk County, was born in Lumpkin County, Georgia the son of Vinson Garner and his wife Mary M. Wood. Vinson Garner was born in Pendleton District in 1809, his wife in Spartanburg. (SC) Page 557 BEDFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE In the year 1809 the Legislature formed LINCOLN COUNTY by cutting off the whole South end of BEDFORD COUNTY, and making ELK RIDGE the boundary between the two counties. This left the old county seat of Bedford over the line in Lincoln Co. To remedy this, in the same year the Legislature passed an Act establishing a committee to locate a new County seat for Bedford near its center, according to its new boundaries. The committee named in the Act consisted of: JOHN ATKINSON, WILLIAM WOOD, BARCLAY MARTIN, HOWELL DANDY, DAVID MCKISSICK, JOHN LANE, BENJ. BRADFORD Page 724/5 HAYWOOD COUNTY TENNESSEE: 1823 Early settlers in the new County of Haywood at that time, besides those named above as Justices, were the following: HERNDON HARELSON, HIRAM BRADFORD, JOEL ESTES, WILLIAM CONNOR, VALENTINE SEVIER, DAVID NUNN, W.R. HESS, WILLIAM DYER, W.H. LOVING, REV. HOWELL TAYLOR, JOHN W. STROTHER, JOHN B. ASHE, REV. JAMES SMITH. John B. Ashe belonged to the family of that name who was prominent in the early history of North Carolina. (comment: look at history of Halifax co. NC; Col. John Bradford & Ashe) The first merchant, as we are told was HIRAM BRADFORD......... Page 732/3 MADISON COUNTY TENNESSEE EST. 1821 Others who bought lots at the first sale in Jackson. Held December 17, 1821: ALEX B. BRADFORD. At the same time ALEXANDER B. BRADFORD and ROBERT HUGHES were sworn as ATTORNEYS. BRADFORD was made Solicitor-General of the Judicial Circuit. Paage 737 JUDGE JOHN READ was one of the notable jurists of West Tennessee. He practiced law in Jackson, Tennessee, for about seventeen years before he assumed his place on the bench of Tennessee. During that period he was associated closely in a professional companionship wtih such men as PLEASANT M. MILLER, ADAM HUNTSMAN, MILTON BROWN, ANDREW L. MARTIN, SAMUEL MCCLANAHAN, ALEXANDER B. BRADFORD AND WILLIAM STODDERT, all of whom were in their day, shining lights of the bar of Jackson. Page 751 GIBSON COUNTY TENNESSEE EST. 1823 Gibson County pioneers who came from North Carolina (ancestors of Gibson Co. Families) ABSOLOM BRADFORD m. MARGARET WARREN Page 760 LAKE COUNTY TENNESSEE Est 1870 .........which divided the small county into several civil districts, as was the custom and assembled the first county court on September 5, 1870, at which the following took the oath of magistrates: R.S. BRADFORD...... The first grand jury was empaneled (Oct. 1870): JAMES BRADFORD.......... The first county officers of Lake County were: J.M. BRADFORD, County Surveyor. Page 773 HENRY COUNTY TENNESSEE Est. 1821 In the northeastern part, a few hardy souls CRAWFORD BRADFORD, ARABY BROWN, WILLIAM DELOACH, THOMAS GRAY and HARDY MIZELL settled in the northeastern part not far from the line of Stewart County. (abt. 1820) Page 778 Cemetery at Paris, TN, Henry Co: ROBERT RUFFIN AYCOCK 1827-1909 AMANDA GUTHRIE AYCOCK 1833-1916 Page 781 R.R. AYCOCK m. to HASKLTINE BARBEE, on July 15, 1850