This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bradshaw, Davis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HWF.2ACEB/1254.2 Message Board Post: The Bradshaw Mountains were named for 2 brothers, Isaac A.Bradshaw (b: 1819 in TN or NC), and William David Bradshaw (b: 1826 in Buncombe Co. NC), sons of Christopher Bradshaw and Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Davis (both b. TN). The family left North Carolina in 1843, and moved to Missouri. From there, several of their sons continued on to California and later Arizona, in pursuit of GOLD. (they had also been gold miners in Georgia and NC).