This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lh.2ADE/2242.1 Message Board Post: Hi David. I am not researching this line just trying to be helpful. First of all I think you have the name of Oscars father wrong. I think it should have been Isaac. Reason 1: Isaac Bradford married Sarah Jane Bickerton in Bartholomew county on 5/18/1848. Reason 2: In the 1850 census for Bartholomew county, Sand Creek township, Isaac Bradford, 22, carpenter, born in Ind was living with Sarah Jane, 22, born in Ohio and Oscar Leo (not sure of the middle name), 1, born in Ind. Living next door was a family headed by Mary Bickerton, 42, born in NC, included were Elizabeth, 20, Ohio, - Elias, 16, Ind, - Catherine, 11, Ind, - Simon J, 9, Ind, - John Anderson, 7, Ind, and George Stephen, 4, Ind. There was also a listing for Rebecca Bickerson, 13, who had died in June of billous fever. The only other Bradford family in the census for that county lived in the same township and was listed only two pages away. The family was headed by John Bradford, 51, no occupation listed,! born in Tenn, included were Sarah, 49, SC, - John H, 18, Ind, - Sarah Ann, 17, Ind, and Jonathan, 12, Ind. Pure speculation but I would think these families are intertwined. Good luck. Don