This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3YF.2ACIB/1464.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Roark "Brad" Bradford was married twice. Bradford's only child, Richard Bradford, a novelist, wrote: “My father was born in [Lauderdale County] Tennessee, on a farm. He didn’t go to college. In fact, he didn’t finish high school. When he was in tenth grade, he ran away from home and joined the army, spent WWI in the army, though not in France, was commissioned, somehow, got out of the army, married his first wife, his high-school English teacher (I think I’ve got the order straight here), became a newspaper man in New Orleans, and at some point in the late 20s began to write free-lance. He and my mother met, I think at what is known as a “literary tea,” in New York. And he got divorced; they got married; I was born in 1932 in Chicago.” Although Bradford was white, his principal subject was black life in the deep south. A search in WorldCat will give you a complete list of his extensive bibliography. Bradford's first wife was Lydia S. I don't know her last name. She died of TB in Santa Fe, NM in 1940. If you find out anything about her, I would appreciate knowing of it. Bradford's second wife was named Mary Rose -- and again I don't have her maiden name. Their son Richard died a couple of years ago. He wrote the novel "Red Sky at Morning."