My friends - Here is another biography from the publication entitled, "History of Calloway County, 1931", as published originall by the Murray Ledger. Our subject today is Charles Hill Bradley. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++ Calloway County - Charles Hill Bradley "Mr. Charles Hill Bradley, merchant and owners of Eggner's Ferry on the Tennessee, was born Aprilo 16, 1867 at Woodville, in Ballard County, the son of Dr. Eddie Bradley and Mrs. Nannie Ryan Bradley, deceased. Doctor Bradley died while Charles was a mere infant, but his mother died in 1926 at an advanced age. At an early age, with his widowed mother, they removed to Murray where the subject obtained and education from Mrray Male & Female Institute, in the meantime devoting all his spare time to clerking in the store of his uncle, Mr. Nat [Nathaniel Hill] Ryan, Sr. Charles Hill Bradley has been a worker all his life. He never finds time to stop, except for a minute, to shake hands. For 29 years, he was a grocery salesman onthe road, being connected with, and owning interests in, the wholesale grocery concerns of Noble & Overby, and later with Covington Brothers of Paducah. After 29 years of service, he resigned his psition and purchased an interest in Eggner's Ferry and the store down there, making daily trips back to his home. In 1894, Mr. Badley was united in marriage to Miss Susie Crews, and to this union four children have been born, as follows: Charlie Crews Bradley, who died January 19, 1919; Rob Bradley, distract manager for Foodtown Kitchens, Inc.; Miss Frances Bradley, a teacher in the Rogers Clark School of Paducah; and Edward, a member of the firm of Houston-Bradley, doing a general insurance business in Murray. Their only grandchild, Rob Tilghman Bradley, lives with them and attends the Murray High School. They live in an elegant home on West College Street in Murray. Mr. Bradley is a Methodist, a Mason and a Democrat. He has been a member of the Murray School Board, but never asked for elective office. Charles Hill Bradley is perhaps the best known traveling salesman in Western Kentucky. For nearly thirty years he has made his territory over the roads in bugies and otherwise, and quit his job just about the time our highways were ordered built. But the roads were never too bad for him tomake his regular trips. Mr.Bradley is one of Calloway's most prominent and successful businessmen, a worthy and progressive citizen and a kind, loving and devoted father." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++