One of the things that I tell myself, makes no difference if we are Laurence Wisdom or John Wisdom we have the same linnage it is the next marriage we have to worry about. >smile< This is one of the first artical about the Bradleys of Wilkes and Caldwell County that has given me one of the first clues to the the earlier generations. 1. the most helpful clue has been Ann Wisdoms will. She had three Bradley brothers that married to three Wisdom wemon. this also has had its draw back. By taking land records, Cencus, marriage records and locating where each family have lived have help me some what. In Mr. Wendells book on the Bradleys have helped me in some areas, but in other areas it has only confused me more. He does admit that he did not start out to do a study this line and confesses that there is much more to be done. This letter I am sure is getting long But here are some things that I would like to start covering and see if we can get some feed back. I divided the Bradleys into three groups as for as this part of North Carolina and to date have found not one reltation ship but I am sure it has posed problems in tenn. One is the Caswell Bradleys, Rutherford Bradleys, Wilkes County Bradley.Now at least we know that Wilkes County Bradley came long before the Rev. War.....???? and the grandfather of the Fergusons which was James Ferguson served in the Rev. Now maybe we are off to a good start,the next time I would like to go over Ann Wisdom will. I still have not found any proof what so ever that Ann Wisdom was the wife of Richard Bradley I would really like to have the proof of that information. If Richard Bradley was married to Ann Wisdom was it the Ann that moved to Wilkes I am always open to information but I would like to have the proof or at least the conculusion one had to come to that determind.the artical is below. William F. Bradley is a traveling salesman for a Lynchburg (Va.) tobacco firm, and is a gentleman who enjoys the respect and esteem of the people of White County. He was born in Cald-well County, N. C., June 6, 1847, and is a son of Jackson and Martha (Ferguson) Bradley, who were [p.135] born, reared and married in that State, the latter event taking place in 1841. Mrs. Bradley was born in 1825, was of Scotch descent, her grandfather having emigrated from Scotland to North Carolina before it became a State, and took part in the Revolutionary War, being in sympathy with the cause of the Americans. Jackson Bradley was born in 1818, and was of Welsh descent, his ancestors having come to America long before the Revolution. After his marriage he was engaged in farming in his native state until 1855, and after residing successively in Mississippi, Georgia, and Missouri, he came to Arkansas in 1861, and to White County in 1875. He resided on a farm two miles east of Beebe till his death in March, 1887, his wife preceding him to the grave by ten years. Both worshiped in the Missionary Baptist Church. William F. Bradley was the third in a family of seventeen children, the following of whom are living: Madelia (Mrs. Thomas), Amelia (Mrs. Mosier), Susan (Mrs. Bailey), Burton and William F. The latter received his education in the various States in which his father lived, and after attaining his wenty-first year, he worked as a farm hand for two years, then attended school at Butlerville, Lonoke County, for ten months. After teaching one term of school he engaged as a clerk at Beebe, at the end of six years engaging in the same business in partnership with J. T. Coradine, under the firm name of Bradley & Coradine. At the end of two years they took a Mr. Burton into the business, the firm then becoming Bradley, Coradine & Co., continuing such one year. Mr. Bradley then sold his interest, and became associated with Richard S. Bradley under the firm name of W. F. & R. S. Bradley, general merchants; but a few months later they made an assignment, losing all their goods. After this misfortune Mr. Bradley began working as a salesman, then secured a position as traveling salesman for Charles G. Peper & Co., of St. Louis, but at the end of a few months was compelled to give up this position on account of poor health. After recovering he worked for some time as a railroad clerk, then resumed clerking, continuing until May 1, 1889, when he accepted his present position with J. W. West & Co., tobacco manufacturers of Lynchburg, Va. He is nicely situated in the town of Beebe, and has a pleasant and comfortable home, and socially is a member of Beebe Lodge No. 145, of the A. F. & A. M. He has belonged to the city board of aldermen, and he and wife, who was a Miss Emma S. Dement, and whom he married November 4, 1874, are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. They have a charming young daughter, Maud E., who was born October 26, 1876, and is attending the schools of Beebe. Mrs. Bradley is a native of De Soto County, Miss., and is a daughter of James T. and Ellen (Binge) Dement, the former of Alabama, and the latter of Tennessee. Mr. Dement was a farmer, and in 1872 came with his family to White County, dying there a year later, at the age of forty-five years. His wife survives him, and lives with Mrs. McIntosh in Beebe. The following are her children: Betty J. (born in 1857, the wife of Dr. McIntosh, the leading physician of Beebe), Emma S. (Mrs. Bradley, born June 24, 1859), Ella (born 1861, wife of A. M. Burton, a prosperous merchant of Beebe), Jennie (wife of Maxwell Welty, a railroad agent at Beebe), and James T. (who was born in February, 1874, and is attending the high school at Beebe). _______________________________________