In a message dated 3/23/00 10:03:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, c.n.gibbons@worldnet.att.net writes: << John - maybe you can help me a little bit. I was always told that Omar Bradley was a cousin of my grandfather Joseph Calvin Dougherty. The family sometimes called him "cousin omer" (pronounced that way not O-maaar but om'r. Do you know of any connection he had to the Dougherty family? Or even the Atkins (because Gus Atkins md Joe's sister Elizabeth)? >> I checked my database for a Dougherty-Bradley connection. I came up with one. I have William Arthur Bradley (1880-1961 son of William Wright Bradley and Amanda Jane Lewis) marrying Eva Leo Dougherty (1891-1915). I have Eva as being the daughter of Joseph Dougherty (b. 1866) and Susan Green (b. 1865). I have two children for William Arthur and Eva Leo - Glenn Bradley and Okla Mae Bradley. William Arthur Bradley was related to Gen. Omar Bradley. William' Arthur's father, William Wright Bradley, was the son of Thomas Smith Bradley and Barbary Ellen Cruse. Thomas and Barbara were the parents of eight children including the aforementioned William W. Another of their sons was Thomas Minter Bradley who was Omar's paternal grandfather. Thomas Minter Bradley married Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (dau of John F. Lewis and Margaret A. ?). I have nine children listed from them. Their oldest son was John Smith Bradley who was Omar's father. It is from the Lewis family that I gain my connection to Omar Bradley. I am descended from Hester Ann Lewis who was the above mentioned Sarah's aunt. As it turns out I am also related to the descendants of William Wright Bradley and Amanda Jane Lewis. Amanada was also a daughter of John F. Lewis and Margaret A. ? I have a question for you Carolyn. Do you know when your grandfather Joseph Calvin Dougherty was born? Carole Brace