Debbi Geer wrote: > > Does anyone know who the parents of Green Washington Bradshaw are? I > can't help but think he might be a nephew or brother to my Jonas > Bradshaw. > > Jonas Bradshaw was born Wilson Co, TN, which is just east of > Nashville. He migrated to IL where he married Nancy W. Lee, daughter > of Rev. Thomas and Annis Lee. The marriage took place 7 July 1836 in > Greene Co IL. Jonas and Nancy had 13 children: Nancy Melvina, Green > F., Annis, Thomas Lee, Sarah Adeline, Martha Jane, Elizabeth, Mary E., > Ella, William H., Eliza Ann, Henry and an infant. > > Since Green is used by Jonas and is such an unusual name, somehow > Jonas Bradshaw must be related to Green Washington Bradshaw. > > Debbi Geer My grt-grt gf Green Washington Bradshaw, born 1832 or 1834, in Pelham Valley, Grundy Valley, Tennessee, was son of Joseph and Polly Logan Caldwell Bradshaw. The dates could surely make him a nephew of your Jonas. His marriage to Nancy Lee interests me as I wonder if this could be the "distant" kinship to Robert E. Lee I've been told of; do you have info on Nancy and her father Rev. Thomas Lee? I do remember my aunt telling me she thought Green or Green Washington was a confederate hero's name and it was not that uncommon a name on back due to this, but I've never checked into this at all. Perhaps someone else knows something of that. Sandra